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Which media player to use?
November 2, 2014
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When I started to use Linux, I played movies with mplayer. Then the development of mplayer seemed to slow down (stopped?) and I switched to VLC. VLC is very easy to use and it plays everything, so I’m very satisfied with this player.
A few days ago I discovered mpv, which is a fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer. It shares some features with the former projects while introducing many more.
It seems that mplayer and mplayer2 are dead, but mpv is developed actively (check it out on github).
I just ran through its feature list and I saw that if you quit with Shift-q (i.e. Q), then mpv will resume from that position next time you start the same movie. Cool.
So next to VLC you can keep mpv too.
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media player, mplayer, mplayer2, mpv, vlc
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