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> All the videos I’ve encountered so far online and offline have played fine. Unlike QuickTime X player on macOS the GNOME video player has speed controls!

Is there a way to get better performance out of Gnome video player when scrubbing back and forth in a video? Quicktime 7 and X on macOS (and commercial tools like RV on Linux) are great at this, and it would be cool to have an open source equivalent.

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Wait, gnome has a video player?

Why would anyone user anything other than videolan VLC?

Because mpv is better

In what sense?

I don't think I've ever used mpv, I am really curious why you believe it is better.

The reason ive stuck with vlc is because it can handle anything you throw at it, and has a responsive and minimal UI. If I find anything equally good I wouldn't mind trying it out

mpv beats VLC at that game. :)

...aren't they both using ffmpeg? Where's the difference coming from?

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