mpc-qt VS mpv

In Windows you can use MPC-QT or SMPlayer for example.

Also took a look at mpc-qt, https://github.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt/releases. It's missing a ton of the features the newer maintained MPC-HC has gained over the years since the original went stale. But by God, the detail in its picture is outstanding.

Playing videos -> https://mpc-qt.github.io

Could try mpc-qt

Have you heard about or tried mpc-qt? As the name might imply, it's inspired by Media Player Classic (specifically MPC-HC), so it probably fits in better than a player that uses custom skins

I just use mpc-qt, basically the best of both worlds. Sadly its not actively developed but the program itself works just fine

I've been trying to compile mpc-qt (https://github.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt) on Windows 10 and just can't seem to get it to work. I've found portable releases of it, but can't seem to get Windows to associate it with media files. Anyone have success with it?

https://mpv.io/ has yt-dlp support, if yt-dlp is installed you just need to throw the URL at it and it plays the video (without download).

See https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9053

I apologise for not following procedure. I am in the middle of building mpv 0.37 from source. Irrespective of the outcome I will document what I had to do in addition to the instructions on mpv.io and if the problem perststs, where it happens and where not with kernel version, mpv version taken from the screen, and the terminal output.

Use MPV. Partticularily shinchiro's builds. Extract the folder where you want its installation directory to be, if you decide to install it. Otherwise, just drag and drop files on top of its window or executable.

Author of ripgrep here.

Like automatic encoding detection and transparently searching UTF-16?

Or simple ways for composing character classes, e.g., `[\pL&&\p{Greek}]` for all codepoints in the Greek script that are letters. Another favorite of mine is `\P{ascii}`, which will search for any codepoint that isn't in the ASCII subset.

Or more sophisticated filtering features that let you automatically respect things like gitignore rules.

Those are all things that ripgrep does that grep does not. So I do not favor this explanation personally.

ripgrep has just about all of the functionality that GNU grep does. I would say the two biggest missing pieces at this point are:

* POSIX locale support. (But this might be a feature[1].)

* Support for "basic" regexes or some equivalent that flips the escaping rules around. i.e., You need to write `\+` to match 1 or more things, where as `+` will just match `+ literally.

Otherwise, ripgrep has unfortunately grown just about as many flags as GNU grep.

[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

- https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8692

https://mpv.io played it without fuss.