I thought it was libvlc that covers that but no, it is indeed libavcodec which is part of the ffmpeg project. Does anyone here know the relationship between libvlc and libavcodec?

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

libvlc uses libavcodec

VLC relays on ffmpeg for a lot of video decoding, as do lots of other media programs. Go look up the legal notice on your TV and there’s a good chance the ffmpeg licensing information is in there.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you look up the dependencies or legal notices for anything that does anything related to video, audio or maybe even images, it's very likely that it uses ffmpeg in some way.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Interesting there isn’t more info on the team behind it.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

FFmpeg is one of libvlc's backends. A lot of stuff vlc can decode without calling ffmpeg.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Followed by MPV doing the same

[–] sag@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Whenever someone ask me media player for Linux I suggest MPV but for Binbows I suggest VLC. I don't know why?

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 15 points 6 months ago

IIRC VLC on Windows uses it's own included ffmpeg libraries for decoding so you don't need to mess around with Windows codecs.

[–] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm in the MPC-HC gang on Windows. Just so much more practical than other players. The main selling point was that full-screen the controls go away once you move the cursor off them, it was amazing. And no waiting for subs to be processed like VLC had to back then, never turned back so don't know if that is still a thing.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

the main selling point of mpchc is madvr. there's basically no other competitors that utilize the GPU to make the media your watching better on the same level as madvr.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

BE > HC

[–] Bye@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I use mpv but the configuration is a big pain. Just try overriding a subtitle font in mpv, there are config files to change that don’t even exist by default and they live in different places depending on mpv version and it’s a huge mess.

I still do it because it’s lightweight and for some reason has better performance for me than VLC.

[–] ZeroPoke@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

MPV.net for Windows is great.

[–] monoboy@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I do the same because VLC has an installer on Windows while MPV you have to manually extract from a compressed folder and then run the install script from command line

[–] onion@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

My download came with a .bat executable

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago

I want installers to die, portable is the future

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

ffplay