Tired of VLC? Try These Video Players Instead

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1. Follow-up: Why I don't like VLC – https://youtu.be/xixOafbvQEw
   – MPV is the CLI backend to Celluloid
   – Celluloid is GTK based frontend to MPV – SMPlayer is a QT based frontend to MPV
   – MPC-HC has the Video Codecs baked in just like VLC
   – VLC is MUCH MORE than a video player – if that is all you use it for… Use an alternative it will perform better.
   – SMPlayer also works in Windows and is a great alternative.

2. Nah, dude, I think I'm just gonna stick to vlc cuz I just found the Visualization tools on it. And I don't think even one of those have it

3. There's only one reason why I don't use VLC and it's an essential one as a non-native English speaker. The issue is that VLC does not use the black bars below the videos to put the subtitle. Subtitles are only displayed IN the video. When you watch a 21:9 film on a 16:9 display, you already lose some parts of the display and on top of that VLC displays the subtitle in the video. I'm just sad that I can't use such a good software.

4. I don't use VLC either, VLC doesn't have bit perfect sound and it has player programs with better picture and better compatibility with the formats, for example the best are PowerDVDUltra, MPC-BE, Potplayer, JRiver, Foobar2000.

5. I have mpg files Celluloid won't play. Handbrake ripped the DVDs but messed up the subtitles. These were European movies with automatically turned on subtitles in English.

   VLC had no trouble playing those mpg files with subtitles) produced by converting the VOBs from the DVD.

6. LMAOOO that intro is so condescending

7. Never tired of VLC from decades

8. MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else. on their site

9. My alternative to VLC is VideoLAN Client.

10. Pot player for windows is best❤. almost everything is customisable.

11. Sm player is the best

12. I prefer using GOM Player plus to VLC or Media Player. What do you think?

13. You are a very start forward person
    will Celluloid work on Linux Mint ?😊

14. VLC cant even implement a seekbar preview something i find very useful. I use potplayer instead.

15. searching good media player on Linux, used Potplayer on pc because it could random your playlist very good.

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17. And what the best Android media player? 😀

18. For windows cannot do better than Pot Player.

19. Why would anyone be tired of vlc?

20. VLC Android version would be amazing.

21. nah, I'm happy with vlc

22. The thing that infuriates me the most about VLC is how it doesn't natively work with blue ray.

    As in I have to do a lot of extra modding to get that to work, most likely because companies don't want to open blue ray discs up for piracy.

    The problem is that I just want to watch the movies that I paid for and for some reason windows really doesn't want that to happen without a bunch of crappy solutions that seem like viruses or are completely unfinished (see Make MKV by the way that doesn't work .

23. smplayer is best on all win and linux. mplayer also : )

24. MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else.

    That's what they say in their official website, so this player is very outdated

25. Who got tired of VLC though? Probably legit no one.

26. mpc hc is a true gem. If you play 10bit video you know it how vlc handles that.

27. mpc is dead and everyone keeps going on about is this it wont work

28. you did not mention IINA for mac

29. I can honestly say I use at least 80% of vlc features in linux. I just hate theming it.

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