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by megamike 4 hours ago
Is vlc still popular and widely used or is there a new 'kid' in town?
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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.

[1]: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/

Agreed, Media player classic is the Winamp of video.
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.
Still vastly prefer mpv[0].

0. https://mpv.io

mpv is really good but a little light on the GUI; I recommend VLC for most people
SMPplayer is a frontend for mpv which I use and like.
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.

Yep, highly recommend https://www.smplayer.info with dark skin :)
There's https://github.com/mpvnet-player/mpv.net for Windows lusers.
PotPlayer is the new kid, I guess? Personally I don't like VLC because of the UI, so I've always used MPC.
MPC is better if you're on Windows.