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        y=log_a(x) <=> x=a^y where “a” is unknown. Let’s say the progress bar in the image is between 0 and 1. That puts the cheetah on about 0.2. It is know that cheetahs run at a maximum speed of 75mph. This gives us 0.2=log_a(75) <=> a^0.2=75 <=> a=2373046875 Therefore, we have the relationship x=2373046875^y. For the speed of light, y=0.6. That gives us x=2373046875^0.6=421875mph. It is known that the speed of light is 671000000mph. 421875mph << 671000000mph

        Still doesn’t make any sense.

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        That would make way more sense when you’re talking about relative speeds of the speed of light and pretty much anything else.

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    I’ve not had any disappointing results from VLC. Is there a reason why MPV would be recommended over VLC or MPC-BE?

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      I have both VLC and MPV and VLC used to take 0.5 second to seek forward while MPV being completely seamless. But I just tested again today and VLC has become seamless too with very minor differences. idk what changed

      Edit: to answer your question I can’t say much other than preferences. I like MPV because it’s minimal, but VLC is good too

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        The problem I have with vlc is it’s too minumal. I use the playback settings a lot and there are looping and playlist to enqueue videos. It’s just easier to use and you don’t have to memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for a damn video player.

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      A big reason I use MPV is because of anime. I forget exactly what the reason was back in the day, but I can remember MPV being better at playing certain formats, and fan subs of anime are early adopters of new codecs. In addition, there is a very healthy ecosystem of plugins related to language learning, which again ties back to anime.

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        Indeed, I love mpv as it can connect to Anki with a plugin and export subtitles with a screenshot and audio directly to it

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      mpv does everything it should in good and performant, while VLC comes with batteries (and codecs) included. This (batteries) can be a good thing because “it just works tm” or it can be a headache with weird errors and security. Personally, i switched to mpc-hc after VLC always had blocky artifacts, and later on to Linux and mpv. Only bad thing about mpv is that it has race conditions with config vs. cli, imo.

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      Lots of keyshortcuts, easy to use in scripts/Cli, no wasted space for UI-Elements. Its great, but im sure VLC has also tons of Features

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      All my life when I have to use vlc or try to there’s something slightly wrong or not working as expected. Mpv has always just worked perfect and right. Does one thing well: it plays anything you throw at it.

      Both are using basically the same libraries and tech behind the scenes, so one should use vlc if there’s need for the features it has, like the library and chromecast, etc.

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      It seems hit and miss for VLC. I’ve used it for many years in Linux and can’t pinpoint the moment when it became bad for me, but it now has difficulty to read a significant portion of my video files.

      It lags when playing videos, or there is sound but no image, or it flickers. It just became unreliable for me. And if we google a bit, there seems to also be lots of people in that situation.

      I tried a few things, changing settings and what not, but it never worked correctly again. Even on a fresh install. So I gave up and just use mpv now.

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        I sadly had a similar experience. Worked for me flawlessly for years on Win7, but the moment I switched to 10 and there-after it has been a buggy experience with crashes, especially with x265 content. I had to switch to using MPC-HC.

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    Pretty much depends. On my main PC I prefer mpv because the UI is simpler and I can scrub around really fast.

    Whenever I need more features I use either VLC or ffmpeg though.

    I also recently learned that VLC can still be faster than MPV. My old 10yr+ laptop struggles hard to play 1080p bluray files, while VLC has no problem with it at all.

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      What defines being on earth? Below the atmosphere? stratosphere? Being in contact with the ground? Being more than 10m up?

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        I would say, anything whose spacetime geodesic (orbital/freefall path) intersects the spheroid defined by the surface of the Earth. Though by this definition, a comet on a 100-year collision course is already “on Earth”, so I’m not sure if that’s reasonable.

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    Mpv is great I just wish it had away to switch where the sound comes out like vlc

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    Who need GUI to watch youtube? You can watch them directly in terminal with mpv. Try it:

    mpv --vo=tct "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

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    I use MPV only to play HDR10+ content, which VLC (stable) does not yet support. v4 does, but that’s still nightly.

    As for “seamless seeking”, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed either of them being slower by comparison. Plus, what kind of content are you watching where you need to constantly seek around so much?

    E: oh I didn’t realize this was linuxmemes. I’m mostly on Windows, so maybe it depends on that as well.