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Nice.

Off topic, but does anyone know of any good IINA alternatives for Linux? I have not found anything that beats it in terms of polish.

VLC is nice, but IINA does one thing really well, and is based on MPV, with all of its powerful configuration options and nice keybinds.

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I've never used IINA, but I'm wondering why you don't just use mpv on Linux? I've been using mpv for years and I've never had any issues with it.

mpv is fantastic and continues to improve.

IINA is much more than mpv. Sure, it uses mpv underneath, but the selling point of IINA is a well thought out UI with just enough features but not too many (totally subjective, of course)

> ...the selling point of IINA is a well thought out UI with just enough features but not too many

That's exactly how I would describe the default mpv UI :)

I do use both — I actually used MPV before discovering IINA — but I like the UI of the latter, even if I still use MPV keybinds.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IINA it's a frontend for MPV?

https://mpv.io/ or plenty of other options here https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Applications-using-mp...

There's none.

SMplayer is the one that I use on both Windows and Linux, though it's starting to show its age.

I've had good experiences using gnome-mpv, (now called Celluloid) it's minimalistic, but I really like it.

https://celluloid-player.github.io/

Looks pretty nice: I'll give it a try over the weekend.

One thing you can do is to look at the programs installed by default on Ubuntu Studio. It's a nice way of discovering Linux media apps without having to browse around on the web—most programs you would need are already installed, though limited a bit to save space on the .iso.

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