Is vlc still popular and widely used or is there a new 'kid' in town?

Well there's an old kid in town, MPC-HC is still being maintained[1] to the great joy for us who dislike the VLC UX.

	▲	tredre3 32 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's nice to see that someone revived MPC-HC (again). For a while MPC-BE[1] was the alternative. I don't know how they compare today, but the latter is still great. [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/
	▲	jesuslop an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Agreed, Media player classic is the Winamp of video.
	▲	ReptileMan 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ugh... for the life of me I still can't understand why you can't click to play pause in VLC. Probably once upon a time it was about dvd, but the number of played dvds compared to pirated mk4 is probably one to a billion.

functionmouse 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

mpv is really good but a little light on the GUI; I recommend VLC for most people

whatevaa 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

SMPplayer is a frontend for mpv which I use and like.

	▲	notpushkin 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It also has MPC GUI mode for nostalgia :) On macOS, IINA is my go-to mpv wrapper nowadays, and last time I tried, Haruna is pretty good on KDE.
	▲	rasz 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yep, highly recommend https://www.smplayer.info with dark skin :)

snvzz an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Still vastly prefer mpv[0].

AlienRobot 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

PotPlayer is the new kid, I guess? Personally I don't like VLC because of the UI, so I've always used MPC.

applfanboysbgon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

MPC is better if you're on Windows.

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