[wlug] Re: History Of VLC

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:19:52 +0000, Ian Stewart wrote:

Then there is MPV<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpv_(media_player)> which is described as free and open-source media player software based on MPlayer, mplayer2 and FFmpeg.

MPlayer was just a CLI tool, as I recall. There were a bunch of different GUI front ends, including KMplayer for KDE, also SMPlayer which I think was supposed to be simpler, and I don’t know what else.

Makes me wonder if MPV is now becoming more popular than VLC ???

Projects seem to spawn other offshoot projects, which then spawn even more offshoots. Me, I mainly stick to ffplay. Though I created my own simple wrapper script for that. ;)