Playing video

Pumping bits to eyeballs

April 23, 2020 — November 5, 2023

compsci

computers are awful

information

making things

metrics

music

photon choreography

standards

Transcoding video from the hard drive to my eyeballs and thence to synaptic activations. Why, what do YOU call television?

1 Useful apps

IINA is the hip new stripped-back media player for macOS. I think it wraps MPV?
VLC is the universal media player that does a lot of things, usually confusingly.
mpv is also a video player; more stripped down than VLC.
- MPV Pro — fork for professionals — Teletype

Options that seem to make an effort to support non-streaming (e.g., local media) options: