Just get MX and get a nice codec pack for it

I do have MX

Then you should already be able to play anything under the sun

Got MX player patched with DTS and Dolby decoding

Else, you might wanna use another codec pack

I remember mx being the only player not to lag with hd video or something on my 2012 cheapass phone

I don't have any codec pack and I didn't have any issues so far

Then what's the point of VLC?

It plays shit

Its main point is that "it can play anything"

Beyond that, it loses to any specialized player

I prever mpv over VLC anyday

When I go to my friend and see VLC playing videos

We android here

I get kinda sad

Yeah, but VLC in general even now.

It's kinda behind all other video players even on desktop

even some webms can't be played properly on it

maybe after their latest upate

I heard it struggles with VP9 Webms

vlc was able to play and record some shady korean rtsp porn channel i found so it has its uses

I wonder where I have that recording

@Aerione yeah that sounds about right

Well see

VLC is made for network streaming

mpv is a VASTLY superior player

Other than that, on Windows, if MPC can't do something, I see if VLC can.

yeah I generally use mpc-hc, mplayer on gnu+linux

Sounds correct to me.

what is up with this mpv meme

MPV is good.

It's one for the terminal folks.

I've never not been able to do anything with mpc-hc

mpv im_gay.mp4

like mplayer? or better

I have no idea. Let me look it up.

mpv is supposedly based on mplayer.

so

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/mplayer-changes.rst

oh so it probably has a few more features

Re-enable screensaver while the player is paused.
Allow resuming playback at a later point with Shift+q, also see the quit-watch-later input command.