FFmpeg enters the chat

I once thought of a movie while coughing into a microphone. I opened the recorded cough with VLC and it played the movie.

VLC is not script-frendly. mpv is the goat. You can even watch videos from YouTube and maybe from somewhere else.

vlc can even play incomplete video files - it'll just play the parts of it, that will play.

The cool part is vlc can act like a video downloader, screen recorder, and media converter. It can also stream a video over the internet

And the dude who maintains VLC do not even make money from it, at all!

Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.

I find VLC really struggles with UHD high frame-rate video.

There are people who like VLC, but for me personally, MPV has a much cleaner interface, better configuration options, and when it comes to streaming video, MPV absolutely destroys VLC (especially when changing playback speed while the video is playing -- VLC has the audio cut out for several seconds and MPV doesn't, and that's to say nothing of the MPEG glitches)

I don’t even know what icon is on the right

Mpv is better

VLC the undisputed champ

I was missing Codecs in my Linux install. VLC couldn't play a single file

I actually found a file format that VLC won't play, .MJP, yanked off of our network's security camera system. It requires the security company's proprietary video player.

I've moved on. VLC used to be great, but my go to now is definitely MPC-BE.