Sigmatank@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoWhats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?message-squaremessage-square264linkfedilinkarrow-up1408arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1402arrow-down1message-squareWhats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?Sigmatank@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square264linkfedilinkfile-text
Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I’ve really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·edit-22 years ago Also Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes I was searching for some kind of VLC based image / video processing algorithm to detect potholes Was this a joke about how the logo is a traffic cone
minus-squarepuppy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·2 years agompv has superior playback quality to VLC in my opinion.
minus-squaredave@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoI’ve also find mpv about a thousand times faster to start up.
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoAren’t they both based on ffmpeg? Surely any quality difference is just a configuration issue?
minus-squarepuppy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoYes. If I remember correctly VLC was originally configured (maybe still is) to network streams and prioritize no lag. That’s why you get weird artifacts in VLC sometimes that’s not present in mpv.
minus-squareTurun@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoI use celluloid, because I absolutely hate the mpv interface. Seriously, how unexplorable and unintuitive can you make it?
minus-squareWillyWonksters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files! Here is the manual. There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.
minus-squareTheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlBannedlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoRemoved by mod
minus-squareCarighan Maconar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoI will say that on Windows at least I prefer MPC-HC because of how much smaller and snappier it is compared to VLC.
minus-squareTheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlBannedlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoRemoved by mod
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I was searching for some kind of VLC based image / video processing algorithm to detect potholes
Was this a joke about how the logo is a traffic cone
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VLC: Very Large Cone
mpv has superior playback quality to VLC in my opinion.
I’ve also find mpv about a thousand times faster to start up.
And to seek to position!
Aren’t they both based on ffmpeg? Surely any quality difference is just a configuration issue?
Yes. If I remember correctly VLC was originally configured (maybe still is) to network streams and prioritize no lag. That’s why you get weird artifacts in VLC sometimes that’s not present in mpv.
I use celluloid, because I absolutely hate the mpv interface. Seriously, how unexplorable and unintuitive can you make it?
I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!
Here is the manual.
There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.
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I will say that on Windows at least I prefer MPC-HC because of how much smaller and snappier it is compared to VLC.
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