![]() ![]() Most of the time you’ll open the app by double-clicking on a video files, but there is a ‘stock’ GUI if you launch the app traditionally: ![]() And mpv does that perfectly.Īnother few pluses (for me, at least) is smooth seek-bar scrubbing, MKV chapter support, subtitle support, and (once again for emphasis) its super speedy start-up times.Īs mpv is primarily a CLI application it lacks a traditional interface (though there are various front-ends available for it). A video payer that opens a video as quickly as possible and keeps out of my way is of more use to me. My video needs extend to playing a video and …Er, that’s it. My main reason behind switching to mpv player is that I wanted a video player that was a little less …there.ĭon’t get me wrong: VLC can look pretty and minimal, like with the Arc theme VLC Skin, but by default, especially on Ubuntu, it’s… a little of its time. Mpv is a free, open-source and cross-platform media player available for Windows, macOS, Linux and even BSD! I’ll skip over the family tree of where MPV comes from (short version: it’s a fork of a fork of mplayer). VLC is open-source, obscenely powerful and plays dang well near everything you chuck at it,īut a few weeks ago I switched to mpv, an alternative to VLC. In fact, if I were to you all what video player you use on Ubuntu I’d be cowered by the collective cry of ‘VLC’!Īnd quite right too. ![]() ‘I wanted a video player that was a little less …there’ ![]()
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