I’ve been using mpc with madvr for years, and the upscaling setting for stuff that isn’t 4k.

  • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using mpv for all kinds of content and have only had good experiences with it. Only the control scheme takes some getting used to as you do everything with keybinds instead of a clickable interface.

    • Random DentEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Haruna which is a version of mpv with a clickable interface. I don’t know why but mpv would sometimes lock my system, which Haruna doesn’t do also.

    • Banzai51@midwest.socialEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Only issue I’ve had with mpv is that everything is darker. I’ve recently gone back to VLC.

      • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        VLC is actually known to have problems with colors so you are probably just used to them being wrong.

          • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            There is a notice on this wiki that contains some comparisons: https://thewiki.moe/guides/playback/

            I’m sure you can find some more in-depth explanations but I will just copy/paste a quote I have seen from reddit.

            • uses wrong matrix for RGB conversion (results in wrong colors)
            • uses point upscaling for chroma planes
            • introduces strong banding
            • wrong chroma location (MPEG-1 for everything)
            • Old subtitle renderer that in more Typesetting heavy situation will say fuck you
            • all the other bugs (including some that haven’t been fixed in years) make it equally unsuitable media player.
  • CleffyHeft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Infuse is amazing on my Mac and Apple TV. On Windows however I just use the default Win11 media player.

    • Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      What does infuse offer over IINA? Infuse seems pricey and never understood what it offers over alternatives aside from some streaming functions?

      • CleffyHeft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Not sure about now but I think Dolby Vision didn’t work very well with IINA the last time I tried it. For me, Infuse just works with anything I throw at it and has Jellyfin support which altogether makes $15/year well worth it for me

  • bitbybit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Kodi on Windows. It supports HDR unlike most other players, and has a decent interface.

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Not just a video player but I watch most of my content on a Odroid N2+ with CoreELEC installed.

    It runs Kodi with the Jellyfin plugin and plays everything you throw at it except Dolby Vision.

      • AtomicPurple@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        If you have an LG smart TV running WebOS, there’s an exploit in the web browser you can use to gain root access and install the homebrew channel. It’s literally just going to a website and clicking a couple buttons. From there, you can install a number of different homebrew apps including the aforementioned Jellyfin, as well as ad-free YouTube, RetroArch and of course Doom.

        The homebrew channel also lets you run an ssh/telnet server that gives you remote access to the TV’s back-end command line and filesystem. I found this functionally extremely useful for allowing the TV to still get online while having it behind a DNS server that blocks access to all of LG’s telemetry domains.

        • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Tizen and WebOS are why I went with TCL instead of a similarly priced Samsung or LG even though they had a slightly better display panel.

  • crossover@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    AppleTV4K + Infuse + LG OLED TV.

    This gets me 4K HDR and Dolby Vision support. 24Hz frame rate matching, and lossless audio to my 5.1 audio system. And a UI that doesn’t lag or have any ads.

  • Dempf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Nvidia Shield plugged into my TV running Jellyfin. Occasionally if I get playback issues I’ll open with an external player like Just Player, Vimu, VLC, etc.

    Jellyfin used to be pretty rough with playback, especially if you watch with subtitles, but in recent months I’ve rarely had playback issues.

    On PC I use mpc/madvr, but usually just to check a video file, not to watch a whole movie. I save that for the TV.

  • B21@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I copy videos to USB and use nova player on my Android TV. I don’t have to deal with wifi issues and nova supports Dolby vision as well.

    • Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I did that the first few times I downloaded Dolby vision after I found it wasn’t being outputted correctly, but copying over the gigs of content to a usb stick to play on stick felt tedious so just went with regular hdr uploads after that.