uosc VS mpv-config

Most of those features are available in OSS tools as well. And for those that are not, there are alternative solutions that might take a bit of work to implement.

I'm not claiming that the OSS tools have feature parity with 1st party frontends, or that they won't require some sacrifices, or effort adjusting. I just think that the trade-off of losing some of the convenience in return for not being tracked and manipulated is well worth it to me, though I can see how it might not be worth it for others.

I do actually think that OSS tools provide a better UX. I can download the media and consume it offline, using any player of choice, on any device, at any time. I find YouTube's recommendations a nuisance, and I can turn those off in Invidious and Piped. Scrubbing in mpv is instantaneous for me for local files and even those served on the LAN, though there is a slight delay when playing directly from YT. There is also a solution for generating thumbnails[1], though I had some issues with it, and didn't end up using it.

At the end of the day, it's a personal choice depending on what you value most, and I'm not trying to convince anyone my choice is inherently better. Thanks for providing your perspective.

[1]: https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc

Check out uosc, it has a button for the next file.

uosc adds a customisable ui, making mpv more accessible to beginners.

Then another great starting point imo is to just install this script actually. Its a ui script and is really customisable and nice. https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc

so recently I am using a UI called uosc and I want to add a play/pause button to the control bar, i asked the UI Developer and he said what's shown in the picture: -Can someone show me how to do it correctly ?

You have to use a ui like uosc. https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc

This one is pretty neat.

Not a gradient but you can change the colour if you use the uosc gui which comes with a bunch of other features.

For beginner, I always suggest them to install uosc because it lowers the learning curves: https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc

this is the config im using right now except switch "d3d11-adapter=nvidia" to AMD and i also get this sometimes sorry im still kinda new to this sorta stuff

Here is my personal config, the readme contains installation instructions for Windows and a list of shaders and scripts I use as well as a bunch of useful links at the end, hope it helps!

You could use the d3d11-adapter= option and set it to your igpu. For example, in my config I want mpv to use my nvidia gpu so in my mpv.conf I have:

Shameless plug to my config if you want a setup that's already preconfigured or want to skip the hassle of setting up.

I personally use uosc for my config.

Shameless plug to my config, I’m currently updating all my profiles (more information in the readme). Here are two popular guides for setting up mpv for anime specifically:

I have been updating my personal config and have been looking at other peoples setups and one thing I noticed was how often people add settings to their mpv.conf when the setting is already on by default as stated in the manual.

Check out the full list of scripts available here (use ctrl+f to search for keywords). Also a shameless plug here is my mpv config if you start using mpv for watching movies/shows/anime it could be useful.

This is my full setup could you check if anything could conflict?