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crystal onyx Jul 4, 2023, 5:23 PM

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so i've been using VLC for locally stored music and stuff, it's very solid and is probably never going away but i'm also a bit frustrated about some of its features, like the lack of high dpi support (ui becomes kinda small on my screen). does anyone have alternative in mind i could try out?

grand tulip Jul 4, 2023, 5:26 PM

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I use mpv on Linux, but I don't know how good it is with high DPI, nor do I know how good it is at cross-platform...

fringe kraken Jul 4, 2023, 5:26 PM

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MPV definitely gets some used to but you cannot beat it on its keybinds

worldly rose Jul 4, 2023, 5:26 PM

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MPV is tha goat

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I watched Pyros 4h video on it

fringe kraken Jul 4, 2023, 5:27 PM

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Actually being able to control the speed effortlessly is doable on MPV, though it being percentage based is very annoying

ebon bison Jul 4, 2023, 5:32 PM

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I second mpv, it's what I've been using and it's really good

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I'm not sure if VLC also does this, but you can play youtube videos from the links like mpv [link to video] and it streams it directly
Really useful on Linux where YouTube on the browser is really CPU intensive for some reason

worldly rose Jul 4, 2023, 5:40 PM

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ebon bison I'm not sure if VLC also does this, but you can play youtube videos from the lin...

that's because I at least cannot get my Firefox to run GPU accelerated video streams

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Firefox is kinda dumb

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but MPV gets it perfect

fringe kraken Jul 4, 2023, 5:40 PM

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W h a r

ebon bison Jul 4, 2023, 5:40 PM

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I don't have a GPU, and streaming video maxes out the iGPU :(

fringe kraken Jul 4, 2023, 5:40 PM

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It does that to me too

worldly rose Jul 4, 2023, 5:41 PM

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I tell the fucking browser "WAYLAND" mode with a env var, and it still runs under XWayland

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like, what a crapshow to not have that setting in the settings

fringe kraken Jul 4, 2023, 5:42 PM

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Oh ofc it's wayland stuff

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Heh

grand tulip Jul 4, 2023, 5:44 PM

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I always use MPV for any media

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open file with MPV
it opens and plays instantaneously
press F for fullscreen
press S for screenshots
if you place your cursor on the upper half of the screen, it won't bother showing you the player bar, and that's amazing

ebon bison Jul 4, 2023, 5:53 PM

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~~I didn't know about S for screenshots, sick~~

grand tulip Jul 4, 2023, 5:55 PM

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There's also

/ to volume down
* to volume up
, to go to the previous frame
. to go to the next frame
right to seek a few seconds forward, left for backward
up to seek ~a minute forward, down for backward

ebon bison Jul 4, 2023, 5:59 PM

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Also use ] and [ for speed adjustments, very important

haughty zephyr Jul 4, 2023, 7:37 PM

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crystal onyx so i've been using VLC for locally stored music and stuff, it's very solid and i...

wdym ui becomes small?

crystal onyx Jul 4, 2023, 7:38 PM

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grand tulip Jul 4, 2023, 7:38 PM

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When your screen has a higher DPI, the UI doesn't scale up to compensate

haughty zephyr Jul 4, 2023, 7:38 PM

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oh

crystal onyx Jul 4, 2023, 7:38 PM

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physical dimensions of the screen are not very high

haughty zephyr Jul 4, 2023, 7:38 PM

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i just eternally keep vlc fullscreened

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but yea i understand

crystal onyx Jul 4, 2023, 7:39 PM

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you have a 1080p screen iirc

haughty zephyr Jul 4, 2023, 7:39 PM

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how check

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ok giv a sec

crystal onyx Jul 4, 2023, 7:39 PM

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display settings in whatever app cinnamon uses as a settings hub

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i have uh

haughty zephyr Jul 4, 2023, 7:40 PM

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#foss cross platform media player?