Comment by Agingcoder
2 months ago
I used mplayer ( the ancestor to mpv as I’ve just realized ) in the early 2000s which I think could handle everything under the sun back then.
2 months ago
I used mplayer ( the ancestor to mpv as I’ve just realized ) in the early 2000s which I think could handle everything under the sun back then.
That's ffmpeg. Neither mplayer nor VLC were doing anything special that let them "play everything". They just used ffmpeg.
(nb they did often use their own demuxers instead of libavformat)