I like how ffplay treats the entire video as a progress bar. I can right-click anywhere to do precision seeking.
It’s also very extensible through bash and other ffmpeg tools. I have it set up as a script on my system that scans the video file first with ffprobe to get the mean audio level of the file, then adjust it based on the universal volume level I have set when it opens with the player, so nothing ends up too loud or too quiet.
Piping yt-dlp output into ffplay is pretty simple too, but I prefer caching downloads to my Video directory first rather than watching them directly from my RSS reader.
mpv my beloved
For me, its ffplay
ffplay is nice, but mpv has yt-dlp integration, and supports addons (love me some nice sponsorblock integration)
I like how ffplay treats the entire video as a progress bar. I can right-click anywhere to do precision seeking.
It’s also very extensible through bash and other ffmpeg tools. I have it set up as a script on my system that scans the video file first with ffprobe to get the mean audio level of the file, then adjust it based on the universal volume level I have set when it opens with the player, so nothing ends up too loud or too quiet.
Piping yt-dlp output into ffplay is pretty simple too, but I prefer caching downloads to my Video directory first rather than watching them directly from my RSS reader.
yt-dlp also has sponsorblock support, btw.
didn’t know that, deff will check it out