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    [–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I like vlc because I'm sexually aroused by traffic cones.

    [–] velvetThunder@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    How do you get them out? Asking for a friend

    [–] poke@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

    Traffic cones have a flared base for this purpose.

    [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    technically, airplanes aren't on earth whilst being fast,

    [–] Damage@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 year ago

    Technically they are still faster than cheetah on land when taking off

    [–] bali10050@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Technically, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter aren't planets, just clouds really far away

    [–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Actually, the gas giants do have a solid core

    [–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Has it already been confirmed or it's still a hypothesis?

    Please share any material proving it if you have any, I love space.

    [–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    From this article

    "All known gas giants, like Jupiter and Saturn, have solid cores. These cores are either rocky or metallic, and aren’t completely solid throughout, with some of the core being comprised of molten metal and rock."

    [–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

    That's amazing, thank you!

    [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Which one has cloud city again?

    [–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    Bespin..... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You got me!

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Technically, it is if you count atmosphere as part of earth

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    [–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What defines being on earth? Below the atmosphere? stratosphere? Being in contact with the ground? Being more than 10m up?

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    [–] darthsid@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I’ve not had any disappointing results from VLC. Is there a reason why MPV would be recommended over VLC or MPC-BE?

    [–] jroid8@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I have both VLC and MPV and VLC used to take 0.5 second to seek forward while MPV being completely seamless. But I just tested again today and VLC has become seamless too with very minor differences. idk what changed

    Edit: to answer your question I can't say much other than preferences. I like MPV because it's minimal, but VLC is good too

    [–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    The problem I have with vlc is it's too minimal. I use the playback settings a lot and there are looping and playlist to enqueue videos. It's just easier to use and you don't have to memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for a damn video player.

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    [–] mathematicalMagpie@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I've had VLC struggle with high-res videos from my phone, particularly if I'm seeking and replaying a bit.

    edit: It may have also been high frame rate.

    [–] pedz@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It seems hit and miss for VLC. I've used it for many years in Linux and can't pinpoint the moment when it became bad for me, but it now has difficulty to read a significant portion of my video files.

    It lags when playing videos, or there is sound but no image, or it flickers. It just became unreliable for me. And if we google a bit, there seems to also be lots of people in that situation.

    I tried a few things, changing settings and what not, but it never worked correctly again. Even on a fresh install. So I gave up and just use mpv now.

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    [–] Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    A big reason I use MPV is because of anime. I forget exactly what the reason was back in the day, but I can remember MPV being better at playing certain formats, and fan subs of anime are early adopters of new codecs. In addition, there is a very healthy ecosystem of plugins related to language learning, which again ties back to anime.

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    [–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    All my life when I have to use vlc or try to there's something slightly wrong or not working as expected. Mpv has always just worked perfect and right. Does one thing well: it plays anything you throw at it.

    Both are using basically the same libraries and tech behind the scenes, so one should use vlc if there's need for the features it has, like the library and chromecast, etc.

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    [–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Who need GUI to watch youtube? You can watch them directly in terminal with mpv. Try it:

    mpv --vo=tct "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you're in a kernel VT (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F[1-7] without starting a graphical environment) MPV can also work in framebuffer mode (the default if you don't specify a video output). It'll show the video fullscreen at full resolution, bypassing the terminal characters.

    Who said terminal graphics had to look bad?

    [–] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'm sure it has some uses in digital signage and whatnot, but holy cow it sounds like a dev just saying "hold my beer" one evening...

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    84% of FOSS software is the result of either a dare, laziness, or spite.

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    [–] vaselined@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] ThePhantomGM@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

    It uses the terminal as a display output instead of a separate window

    [–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

    This is stupid and I love it

    [–] Kethal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I wondered what this could possibly look like and found some examples here: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/view-media-no-graphical-env.

    I was expecting ASCII art. It's low resolution video though. Seems like a small use case, but pretty nifty.

    [–] LunaCtld@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pretty much depends. On my main PC I prefer mpv because the UI is simpler and I can scrub around really fast.

    Whenever I need more features I use either VLC or ffmpeg though.

    I also recently learned that VLC can still be faster than MPV. My old 10yr+ laptop struggles hard to play 1080p bluray files, while VLC has no problem with it at all.

    Try again with mpv --hwdec=auto

    [–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] Pfnic@feddit.ch 20 points 1 year ago

    That may very well be the case but for the majority of users the out-of-the-box experience is the one they're getting

    [–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I prefer VLC but to each their own. I'm glad we have a choice.

    [–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    VLC is much more versatile, but when it comes to speed/efficiency, MPV run laps around VLC.

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    [–] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Winamp. Still whips the llamas ass

    [–] kurumin@linux.community 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] pedz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

    For the nostalgic, there is Qmmp that looks and behave like XMMS/Winamp and is still maintained.

    [–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Heaviest things on earth:

    4: Elephant

    3: Ur mom

    2: node_modules

    1: wav

    [–] vegantomato@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cheetahs are 1/2 the speed of airplanes and 1/3 the speed of light. Ok, got it.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's possible that it's a logarithmic scale.

    [–] vegantomato@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    y=log_a(x) <=> x=pow(a,y) where "a" is unknown. Let's say the values of the progress bars in the image are in ]0,b]. That puts the cheetah on about b/5. It is know that cheetahs run at a maximum speed of 75mph. This gives us b/5=log_a(75) <=> pow(a,b/5)=75 <=> a=pow(75,5/b) Therefore, we have the relationship x=pow(75,pow(5/b,y)).

    For the speed of light, y=((bΓ—3)/5). It is known that the speed of light is 671000000mph. That gives us x=pow(75,pow(5/b,(bΓ—3)/5))=671000000mph <=> pow(75,pow(5/b,b))=514285405839088. For the airplane, y=((bΓ—2)/5). The fastest airplane flied at about 2200mph. That gives us x=pow(75,pow(5/b,(bΓ—2)/5))=2200mph <=> pow(75,pow(5/b,b))=227016123.

    514285405839088 =/= 227016123 (contradiction).

    Cannot be a logarithmic scale.

    [–] xor@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

    it's a double log... y = log(log(x))...
    or maybe *graph not to scale

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    [–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Drop the SPEED OF, just LIGHT. It's cleaner.

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    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
    [–] Chriswild@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

    No. You're allowed to have a different opinion than me.

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    [–] quantenzitrone@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    i like to watch my videos on normal speed, so no thanks /s

    [–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

    i do agree.. when it doesnt freeze and crash the system.

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