Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian

Posted Aug 6, 2014 12:38 UTC (Wed) by clump (subscriber, #27801)
In reply to: Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian by przemoc
Parent article: Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian

I've been a happy user of mplayer for something close to a decade. Why is mpv the best in your opinion?

mpv / mplayer2

Posted Aug 6, 2014 14:15 UTC (Wed) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link] (2 responses)

Just check out the homepages of mpv http://mpv.io/ and mplayer2 http://www.mplayer2.org/ and see for yourself.

mpv / mplayer2

Posted Aug 7, 2014 11:18 UTC (Thu) by akka (guest, #98110) [Link] (1 responses)

mplayer2 is not maplayer. Mplayer2 is a fork made partly by the same people that made libav

mpv / mplayer2

Posted Aug 7, 2014 11:26 UTC (Thu) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link]

Yes, mplayer2 is not MPlayer, but mplayer2 has no relationship to libav. mplayer2 was created by Uoti Urpala, who is not a libav developer.

Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian

Posted Aug 6, 2014 15:15 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

I've contributed to mpv and it is certainly one of the cleaner C codebases I've worked with (up there with tmux, IMO). Implementing Matroska's ordered chapter support (AFAIK, the most complete FOSS implementation unless VLC finished something more recently; mplayer and mplayer2 both lack it) was a couple weeks of free-time work and testing. I'd like to get back to getting nested chapter support implemented, but it hasn't been on the top of my list.

Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian

Posted Aug 7, 2014 11:42 UTC (Thu) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link] (1 responses)

> Matroska's ordered chapter support [...] mplayer and mplayer2 both lack it
The MPlayer2 website specifically lists Matroska's ordered chapters as one of the improvements over the original MPlayer.

Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian

Posted Aug 7, 2014 13:39 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Ah, I remember now. What is not supported is ChaperSegmentEditionUID which basically allows you to reference a specific chapter from another file directly. VLC and mplayer2 both will play complete files fine, but referencing chapters in external files just causes them to play the complete file. Try playing videos from this[1] directory.

[1]https://github.com/mpv-player/random-stuff/tree/master/ma...