Well at least it's not Norton and Bonsai Buddy
Bonsai Buddy
You take that back. For some of us, Bonsai was our only buddy.
Bonzi
K-lite and MPC-HC are better video players than any of the Linux offerings Ive looked at. VLC is okay, but MPC has a much better UX
Ugh. As much as I like vlc, I have to agree. Mini rant time.
It absolutely boggles my mind that the vlc devs refuse to implement automatic loading of prev/next tracks in the same folder, a basic feature that pretty much every other major player has, because it's not their intended use pattern.
This is a convenience feature to save the user selecting tracks and making a playlist every time they want to watch a few sequential videos (i.e. episodes) in a row.
While I do think it's unreasonable to ask devs to implement a feature in their own software that they don't want, it's also bull-headed decisions like that that hold back mainstream adoption.
On Linux I use mpv.
Also switched to it as my player of choice on Mac (and Windows too, when I was still using Windows)
It doesn't have a dedicated "next file" button like mpc-hc but it's scriptable, so I added a simple one-liner so that shift+right or shift+left open the next or previous files in the folder, works great :)
On the rant subject, I'm with you. I had the exact same journey on my path to find an mpc-hc replacement. It's fine for the VLC devs to not accept a request, they're doing all the work after all. But it's wild that they dismiss it completely and say there is "no use case" and you should just "make a playlist"
The very fact that lots of people are asking for it is clear evidence that there IS a use-case that's not covered by existing functionality, or people wouldn't be asking!
You don't sit down at the PC and think "Okay I'm going to watch a few episodes, let's create a playlist!" No - you sit down, double click a file, watch it, and then as the credits roll you think "I want to watch another"
Every streaming service on the planet figured out this is how people want to watch, not to exit back out and go to the menu (or in the OS case the folder) to find the next one.
It's only the difference of a few seconds, but when you're accustomed to having that functionality, it's painful when it's missing.
Wrote my own with python-vlc, very easy, has all my mouse buttons for controls.
Highly recommend.
mpv 4 lyfe
If you want something similar to mpc, mpc-qt is pretty decent
I am stuck with k-lite and mpc hc but I admit vlc is a better player per ability. Trash ui but it does play literally anything which can be players straight out of the box.
Yet I wish mpc would be ported to Linux.
Forgive my ignorance, but who are the characters in this meme?
(They're from the show Invincible)
Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power is a line of dialogue spoken by Omni-Man to Invincible in the animated TV series Invincible during a fight between the two. The line is in reference to a pair of fighter jets, used to illustrate how weak humans are in comparison to superhumans. (source)
I've never seen the show, I just thought it was a funny meme.
That was all automatic in the background or unnecessary. Go ahead and remove your terminal, see how long you last
to be fair Linux has CPU governors so there is similar software.
not that you'd adjust priority per application but the tweaking aspect for performance is there
Also there are different configurable schedulers, and you can use nice to adjust priorities
I found the simple life ain't so simple!
When I jumped out on that road
I got no love, no love you'd call real
Ain't got nobody waitin' at home!
Aah, yeah!
Running with the daemon!
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-bad-multiverse
