BL-Media Proposal: Sub smplayer/mpv for vlc

cherkie · 2019-04-19 16:16:35

I have become a full convert to smplayer once I found out it can query and download from opensubtitles.org. Downloading subs has never been easier.

@hhh - I am like this with first 6 star wars movies. Lines before they are on screen, watched all quite a few times. Actually it's about time I rewatch all. (except for ... new ... films)

linux_user · 2019-04-19 18:30:22

Out of topic and yet within the topic!

What do you guys think of including some of the terminal based apps like ranger & co, cmus and mutt OOTB? Of course those who want can install them using apt, but I strongly feel that these apps go along with the aesthetics of BL.

DeepDayze · 2019-04-20 01:17:19

If mpv can play DVD's (even with libdvdcss2) well I am all for mpv becoming default and SMplayer for movies. These applications are getting better and maybe if the bugs are annoying in MPV why not backport the package in Sid even?

hhh · 2019-04-20 04:13:49

linux_user wrote:

Out of topic and yet within the topic!
What do you guys think of including some of the terminal based apps like ranger & co, cmus and mutt OOTB? Of course those who want can install them using apt, but I strongly feel that these apps go along with the aesthetics of BL.

I'm for it, we'd still leave them out of the CD image, that ISO needs only one app per purpose and we favor the GUI apps for n00b ease of use.

This is the type of tangent that needs its own thread, though. Discussion of it here just clouds the OT and search engines. Open a new proposal here in Dev & Suggestions, please! @johnraff is dealing with real life ATM, and no decisions would be made until he has offered his opinion. That goes for @damo too, and the rest of the team.

dolly · 2019-04-20 07:14:08

Yes to mpv, have tried earlier and it worked very well for me. So please, go for it. Anyway, if you can not live without vlc, it is easy enough to install it.

damo · 2019-04-22 16:47:10

I always use mpv, and I used to use smplayer but now I find it unnecessary for my use-case. I have never been a fan of VLC!

I vote for mpv/smplayer instead of VLC

stevep · 2019-04-22 20:38:03

SMPlayer's Qt and icon themes can also be changed from within its own options instead of following the system's, if that's your preference.

If you don't want to backport a system ffmpeg 4.1 to build the current mpv 0.29.1, you can have it build and use an internal version instead, like I did here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show … th-support

Note that my version also has vapoursynth support so that it works with the Smooth Video Project 4 Linux, which is pretty cool, but Debian doesn't have vapoursynth. However, that can be disabled in the build configuration.

CanadianClubXXX · 2019-04-23 16:34:49

mpv for the win

It's really fantastic, very well documented and quite minimal. It's one of the first software I install in a system if it's not already in it.

Thx !

Nili · 2019-04-23 17:09:52

I also want to add my voice to mpv which is superior player for all my video collections.
The only one I miss a bit is DVD MENU from 0.6.2-2 However, DVD's are not much priority, since 720p / 1080p or higher are more enjoyable nowdays.

"mpv.conf+mpv.input" two settings where they help me to adjust everything according to my preferences or hardware opportunities.
I haven't turned back into any other video player for several years on Linux.

MPV all the way!
Nili

Martin · 2019-06-07 06:04:25

MPV in the news.

/Martin

hhh · 2019-06-08 05:05:53

Martin wrote:

MPV in the news.
/Martin

Ha! I knew they were lurking our forums.

:monkey:

hhh · 2019-06-08 05:07:53

stevep wrote:

SMPlayer's Qt and icon themes can also be changed from within its own options instead of following the system's, if that's your preference.
If you don't want to backport a system ffmpeg 4.1 to build the current mpv 0.29.1, you can have it build and use an internal version instead, like I did here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show … th-support
Note that my version also has vapoursynth support so that it works with the Smooth Video Project 4 Linux, which is pretty cool, but Debian doesn't have vapoursynth. However, that can be disabled in the build configuration.

Thanks for the post!

DeepDayze · 2019-06-08 15:37:06

It's good to have choices for the media collection you have :-)

MPV is getting to become my video player of choice too and vote to have MPV shipped by default on the Lithium (or later) ISO. Still the other popular players can be just an apt-get install away

johnraff · 2019-06-09 06:55:59

I love mpv too, and use it most of the time, but I also have VLC which is also better in some situations, I find. For one, try dropping a DVD in your drive, and just playing whtever's on it, with the ability to choose sections, and skip forwrd and back. I find (on Debian Stretch, not Buster, agreed) VLC much better than smplayer for this. It also looks less annoying out of the box IMO.

So, while agreeing about the awesomeness of mpv, I'm less enthused about smplayer and kind of think there's a case for making VLC the default media player.

hhh · 2019-06-11 01:58:27

Agreed, VLC is pretty much bullet-proof. I'd still recommend leaving out vlc and using mpv for the CD ISO, though, if we aren't already.

johnraff · 2019-06-11 02:03:33

^Yes, for the CD, sounds like a good idea. No smplayer either, just our BL wrapper round mpv. We're going to be tight getting under 700MB anyway, and probably CLI tweaking and fixup utilities should take precedence.

hhh · 2019-06-11 02:07:43

Sounds good, you have my upvote.

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