no need for mpv bloat ffplay is the true suckless minimalist media player >muh youtube-dl integration youtube-dl -o - -f best URL | ffplay -i - # or even better, now you can rewind/fast-forward youtube-dl -o /tmp/shit -f best & ffplay /tmp/shit # it's that easy
A lot of software is abandoned for modern shiny bloatware because people are too lazy to master it and understand its true power. POSIX make, for example: nullprogram.com/blog/2016/04/30/ So if you were not aware of these ffplay powers and were using mpv instead because of that, you're welcome, you can get rid of mpv, because it literally depends on ffmpeg and like 90% ffmpeg packages ship with ffplay so mpv is 100% bloat.
I unironically took a liking to ffplay (especially as a music player). It sure as hell doesn't replace mpv completely, but I'm at a point where I often just want to open and play my media. Nothing else.
>youtube-dl -o - -f best URL | ffplay -i - >-f best That's why I still rather use mpv for YT videos. You can't play bestvideo+bestaudio as youtube-dl first downloads the streams separately and then muxes them together in a container via ffmpeg. This makes it impossible to stream 4K footage. And no, first downloading the video and then playing it is not the same as streaming.
whats the point? to get the url you already have to use a browser. why would i want to add more steps to watch a video when my browser is already at youtube anyway?
Connor Ramirez
I've integrated it into links text browser
Bentley Bell
>he doesn't have a terminal that supports video play
Justin Watson
It allows me to cache the entire video and to stream only the audio.
James Gray
a text browser, where you can't see video previews, and are deciding what to watch based completely on description alone? you are going backwards in terms of technology. why?
Jayden Taylor
ffmpeg software is horribly written and I'd honestly be afraid of a code execution vulnerability if using this.
Jackson James
because I dream that one day I will be able to create my own OS on dedicated hardware that will be somewhat usable, so I need to reduce the complexity of all the software I use as much as I can to make this task less impossible
also you waste less time, if you go to youtube with a text browser, you watch the video you wanted to watch and then it's over if you go with a graphical browser you end up wasting the rest of your day
Camden Brown
fair enough, understandable
Jose Taylor
yea ffmpeg recently had some vulnerability disclosed
Angel Taylor
>if you go with a graphical browser you end up wasting the rest of your day Not really. Unless you have an account the recommendations are such generic clickbait that you're not tempted to explore further.
Benjamin White
there are vulnerabilities disclosed for ffmpeg weekly.
Austin Hughes
>to get the url you already have to use a browser oh user
In qutebrowser it's actually easy as crap to simply spawn it in another window. one key once you bind it.
Isaiah Adams
mpv is ffplay wrapper if you didn't know
Samuel Cooper
>as youtube-dl first downloads the streams -g
read the manual
Jaxson Wilson
posix make ia abaondones because it's useless trash
Andrew Jenkins
youtube-dl is also a pile of spaghetti
Christopher Wright
This is absolutely fucking retarded, we created interfaces for a reason.
Nolan Mitchell
>This makes it impossible to stream 4K footage. Just use mpv you nerd, it streams 4K footage from youtube using youtube-dl just fine.
Isaiah Lee
>-g, --get-url >Simulate, quiet but print URL How is this exactly going to help?
Next time read the entire post.
Nathaniel Myers
>suckless stopped right there. the recommended suckless alternatives listed on their website are shit and you should feel bad.
Parker Scott
>we created interfaces for reason >BLA BLA BLA REKT, still no real GUI in MPV...
Ian Lewis
But mpv has a GUI
Nathan Jackson
It's not that terrible since hanno started fuzzing it
Austin Walker
>that thing that automates shit and makes your life easier? Its bloat. Just do everything yourself lol!
this is the Jow Forums autist mindset. When you have too much time on your hands you start to complicate the simplest of things.
Dominic Jackson
tell me why its better than mpv or vlc and ill try it out
Zachary Wilson
It uses half the CPU power.
Owen Garcia
so it supports VAAPI right?
Justin Rivera
mpv is a glorified ffmpeg wrapper, so ffplay won't be any more performant than mpv.
Robert Smith
>what is mpsyt
Easton Kelly
mpv compiles against libav so ni it’s not just a ffmpeg wrapper
Jacob Hall
only retards try to build mpv against libav. mpv officially depends on the lastest ffmpeg release.
Jordan Richardson
Okay where's the GUI?
Wyatt Harris
You can't make your own OS. It's literally impossible, it would take you more than several dozen lifetimes to match current OSs. Even if you gathered several dozen elite programmers to work for free, it would take you decades and you'd run over the same potholes as devs before you. You're not running minimalist in terms of complexity but minimalist in terms of functionality. ffmpeg is still horribly written so you're still running bloat.
Chase Morgan
ffplay doesn't support gpu rendering >i-i-i don't need gpu rendering you are just a poorfag using integrated graphics
