I did! I see it on my students’ screens in December. There is some other software that does little things like that. Pale Moon does something for Halloween I believe. I hardly ever watch videos on my computer though.
Yeah I switch to MPV maybe a decade ago from VLC. I just like the outward simplicity. It can do everything but it doesn bother showing you unless you ask, whereas VLC is like an all you can eat buffet, kind of overwhelming for day to day use.
I still use VLC occasionally when I want to do something funky and don’t want to bother digging into how to do it with MPV for a one off.
I moved from VLC to MPC because VLC couldn’t handle the subtitles in ASS format from an anime.
Now I’m trying to use linux only and… I just can’t like MPV.
Like yeah it works, but it doesn’t care for multimedia keys and I use those a lot. Also the configuration… My god, the configuration… I miss MPC… Why do they hate basic/normal users?
I was team mpc until about 2006, now I’m team mpv.
I still can’t remember why I disliked VLC, I think the first time I used it the video would not work but it played with mplayer.
Still good to have VLC around though, glad to see them stickin’ around all these years.
Did you know that the VLC icon wears a Santa hat around Christmastime? Maybe that will change your mind.
I did! I see it on my students’ screens in December. There is some other software that does little things like that. Pale Moon does something for Halloween I believe. I hardly ever watch videos on my computer though.
Yeah I switch to MPV maybe a decade ago from VLC. I just like the outward simplicity. It can do everything but it doesn bother showing you unless you ask, whereas VLC is like an all you can eat buffet, kind of overwhelming for day to day use.
I still use VLC occasionally when I want to do something funky and don’t want to bother digging into how to do it with MPV for a one off.
Same. Love the simplicity.
I watch media mostly on my TV anyway, via Plex, so there’s no reason to have some full fledged media solution on my PC.
I moved from VLC to MPC because VLC couldn’t handle the subtitles in ASS format from an anime.
Now I’m trying to use linux only and… I just can’t like MPV. Like yeah it works, but it doesn’t care for multimedia keys and I use those a lot. Also the configuration… My god, the configuration… I miss MPC… Why do they hate basic/normal users?
Is there any reason for me to ditch MPC and go MPV, or is it just preferences?
I don’t know. I use mpv because I switched to Linux in 2006 and I’m used to it now.