Edit: guys I didn’t made this template, can you please calm down?

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    8 months ago

    Who need GUI to watch youtube? You can watch them directly in terminal with mpv. Try it:

    mpv --vo=tct "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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      8 months ago

      If you’re in a kernel VT (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F[1-7] without starting a graphical environment) MPV can also work in framebuffer mode (the default if you don’t specify a video output). It’ll show the video fullscreen at full resolution, bypassing the terminal characters.

      Who said terminal graphics had to look bad?

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        8 months ago

        I’m sure it has some uses in digital signage and whatnot, but holy cow it sounds like a dev just saying “hold my beer” one evening…

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          8 months ago

          84% of FOSS software is the result of either a dare, laziness, or spite.

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    8 months ago

    I’ve not had any disappointing results from VLC. Is there a reason why MPV would be recommended over VLC or MPC-BE?

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      8 months ago

      I have both VLC and MPV and VLC used to take 0.5 second to seek forward while MPV being completely seamless. But I just tested again today and VLC has become seamless too with very minor differences. idk what changed

      Edit: to answer your question I can’t say much other than preferences. I like MPV because it’s minimal, but VLC is good too