• MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      MPV deserves its own community. It’s the only player on windows that can handle DV content. Though the default offering is very minimal and difficult to use. There are some awesome gui projects though

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        1 year ago

        At least on android TV, the latest release candidate for Kodi also finally properly supports DV. So I would expect the same thing to be the case for the windows version

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          1 year ago

          Windows and DV have a very tumultuous relationship. Actually Windows has terrible relationships with lots of proprietary codecs like dv, atmos, dts:x. So I would not be surprised at all if it still wasn’t supported on kodi on windows. I dislike Kodi enough that I won’t try, since MPV serves my purposes perfectly fine if I’m watching from my windows machine. For everything else I have appletx/roku that support DV

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            1 year ago

            I’m curious, what do you dislike about Kodi? Is it just that you want a light player to use with mouse and keyboard while sitting at your desk?

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              1 year ago

              Yeah the UX leaves a lot to be desired, especially when there are alternatives - I really like Plex better, and am patiently waiting for Jellyfin to become more useable haha. But if I’m not at my computer, I’m using Plex which supports DV through my streaming devices, and if I am at my computer, I’ll just use MPV. But then again, that’s only for items that don’t have the hdr10 fallback. So it is honestly pretty rare.

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                1 year ago

                Interesting. I on the other hand find the plex interface quite ugly - beside the fact that it’s not foss. Kodi has the advantage of skin support, I am using it with the embuary skin and it looks nice and does everything I want it to. I have also been using Jellyfin for the last 2 years or so, why do you say it needs to be more useable?

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                  1 year ago

                  Well the app for apple tv doesn’t even let you turn subtitles on or off. It’s honestly totally useless so I don’t use it. I like that it’s FOSS but you can’t change any playback options. Kodi also isn’t available on apple tv unless you do some hacky shit which I’m not that interested in doing since plex is working fine. I would love nothing more than to ditch plex for jellyfin. But I’ll wait until it’s a little more fully baked

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                    1 year ago

                    True, the native app for Android TV also has some issues with certain audio codecs although I believe it does have subtitle selection. I had the luxury of being able to choose a TV specifically for gaming as well as Jellyfin so getting one with android TV was a nobrainer and I am happily using Kodi now. Let’s hope the native apps mature enough to make them feasible alternatives :)

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      1 year ago

      I love this player, wish it was more popular. They should make the installation a bit simpler on Windows, it’s a bit weird compared to most programs people download