Mpv cause you can use keyboard shortcuts from the terminal.

Thanks to this I can ssh from the phone, connect to my tmux mpv session, and use that as remote control.

I use VLC. I have no real reason for choosing it other than knowing it since I was a kid, and it doing the job I need perfectly fine so far

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VideoLAN (VLC) it plays media that MPV can’t and has a wide range of direct-from-the-hardware streaming results. I’ll look a closer look at MPV, take it a bit more seriously and see if it’s upgraded to meet my needs.

Ever since VLC came on the scene it has been my go-to. Just really functional player that plays almost anything I throw at it, and I like the UI well enough. For now I have no reason to use anything else. I’m not hating on other players, but VLC works for me.

mpv for about 6 years now. Like VLC it plays pretty much anything I need to, but it feels snappier

Switched to mpv a decade ago. Love the minimal UI and how snappy it is. Used VLC or MPC-HC on Windows. Moved to linux and used SMplayer or VLC until mpv came around.

VLC is great and I had been using it for years. However, MPV is simple, yet powerful and is naturally part of my Linux distribution due to being a dependency of other stuff I use. That said, MPV has been my go-to mediaplayer for years now.

While VLC is great, I have had cases where it failed me regarding hardware accelerated decoding. mpv has never let me down with this.

VLC has been disintegrating on Wayland, mpv became the default

I use the SMPlayer, it does the same as the VLC, but it’s way faster and easier to handle.

Fun fact: VLC still supports Android 4.2 (Nov, 2012) which i use to play local media on my old tablet(4.4) through f-droid. Works well with old formats.

On PC, I use MPV because I’ve gotten used to its command line and shortcuts.

MPV, better colors , faster , lighter and has everything I need and nothing I dont

While they’re technically the same type of software, it’s still sort of like comparing apples to oranges.

VLC is your kitchen skink media players that comes bundled with basically everything possible.

mpv is more of a minimalist media player that let’s the user add the features themselves using add-ons.

Me personally prefer mpv since it’s minimal in every regard. I have turned of the OSC, and I use the keyboard for everything. I don’t use a lot of extras, but the ones I have, is add-ons I couldn’t probably live without, like yt-dlp and SponsorBlock (for YouTube).

I even use mpv as my music player with playlist that I manage using Neovim and the tool echo (to add new tracks to my playlists).

I use MPV, mostly because I like the simplicity of the on-screen interface.

But both are great players. No issues with VLC and it is a go-to if I ever have a file I can’t play otherwise (which is a vanishingly rare occurrence).

MPV>VLC