If MPV is a modern and fast video player, it’s not really accessible at first. That’s why here I want to share my tips on how to approach de the beast.
MPV is a fast, hardware accelerated video player, just check the scrub speed to be convinced.
There is a lot to say on this extremely versatile program. Here I’ll try to cover some basic but super usefull cases as introduction.
If you’re on linux, a quick sudo apt install ffmpeg might suffice.
Here is a meta post about the blog itself. It’s here to announce that after ~2 years of shutdown, the blog has reborn from its ashes. And it is now more powerful than it has ever been !
The new thing is that it’s now also bilingual. Previously only in french, I plan to translate only few of the old post (if you switch to Fr you’ll see all previous one). But I’ll try my best add translation for future posts.
It is notorious that all default video players are bad, and almost everyone use alternatives like VLC, media player classic, etc. But usually we don’t think about changing the default image viewer, and we’re wrong. Since they are as bad as their video counterparts.
I finally buyed a mechanical keyboard ! The CM storm quick fire XT - cherry MX brown, qwerty US.
Cherry MX brown switch, classic and efficient
I chose this model carefully. It’s one of those who have a detachable controller chip (on most models it’s soldered on the PCB). This means that we can replace it with a programmable controller ! That’s why I ordered a custom controller named ghost squid !