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

  • Banzai51@midwest.socialEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

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

    • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

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

        • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
          2·
          11 months 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.