I don't know what they mean, but to me it didn't become less great, just MPV (based players) are often better. They are more customizable (even scriptable) and better with the resource usage.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hummm, Don't get me wrong I like the command line when I work on my GUI-less server, but a video player to run through the command line on a daily drive desktop with GUI and everything?

This seems a bit overkill and useless no? I mean when I'm on my desktop I just want to click on my media file and launch it right away.

Maybe I'm not the target audience and it's focus is more entitled to people working in the video industry and needs more granular tweaking with specific media files? Scripts?

Or Am I missing something here?

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

but a video player to run through the command line on a daily drive desktop with GUI and everything?

I'm not running it from the command line, I open videos with it from my file manager, or through the Jellyfin plugin.

I mean when I'm on my desktop I just want to click on my media file and launch it right away.

Yes, that's what I do. Of course, your desktop environment has to know that you have this MPV and it can open such and such files, but it can work like that.