why use MPC these days at all, over VLC? Is there any benefit?
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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- Faster/quicker: start up time, response time, Next-Previous response time, seekbar response, etc. Very, very noticeable on slower processors like Pentium for example. Hence faster app as default registered player for File Explorer. Shorter wait time.
- Faster manual rotation, flip, zoom, pan, etc.
- DirectShow support, hence you could use codecs, renderers, madVR, ffdshow, etc. across MPC-HC, MPC-BE, PotPlayer, KMPlayer.
- Auto-rotation of Matroska during playback (eg. auto-rotate 90 degrees). So far only MPC-HC, MPC-BE, PotPlayer, and KMplayer. So far, IIRC, VLC and no single mpv/mplayer-based player have support yet.
Back in time, IIRC, MPC-HC was among the first to support unicode filenames/display, then emoji.
I find it's faster and the player UI is more minimal.
The fact that I've used it for what seems like 15 years probably helps too.