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VLC is obviously the best media player, I can't think of one I've used that comes close ever, either in ease of use(hotkeys) or functionality.
Audacity is such a simple yet comprehensively functional audio editor.
OBS is a very simple video recording software that works so well.
I personally prefer mpv, but that's still FOSS. Nothing in the proprietary world is comparable to these two.
I used MPV for a while, seemed a little bare bones to me compared to VLC? Maybe that's just because I was more familiar with VLC and know how to do most things with it already.
I went from winamp to VLC and then tried probably everything and then went back to VLC
I had the same experience when I first tried mpv. Went back to VLC.
I tried mpv again years later due to some annoying bug in VLC, and finally made some efforts to customize the shortcuts to my liking (most were fine, just added a couple extra ones like k for pause) and installed some plugins (like mpv-sub-select and skip-intro). Now I can't be satisfied with anything else.
It's kinda like Neovim in that sense. Super customizable and integrates with everything.
I don't think I've had to reconfigure mine for different window sizes... of course, I don't typically record individual windows I record a screen.
If I may ask, what do you use OBS for that you have to record individual windows that are sized differently each time?
Right, right. I think it's a little unfair to say OBS isn't simple in that regard, though, as recording small snippets of screens isn't really what it's targeted towards. It's more of a content streaming/recording software, IMO. I honestly don't know what I would use if I needed to regularly record differently sized small portions of my screen to send to people.
VLC gave me trouble last year so I ended up using Haruna. The only thing I miss is downloading subtitles, but I can use VLC for that, everything else I think Haruna is near perfection.
I think PotPlayer is a lot better than VLC— although it's a little weird out-of-the-box, so you have to change a few of its many, many customizable settings.
I can't really think of a customizable option I've wanted that VLC doesn't have, what do you mean by better?
I'm too sleepy to list them, but check it out. Right-click and check out the options, it's like an explosion xD