uosc VS mpv-osc-modern

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

I am using this mpv-osc-modern and the icons and progress bar are really small. I can't figure out how to do make them bigger. I know modernx has bigger buttons but I don't really want use it because

I am more of a fan of this one. It looks nicer.

Shader is not appearing in the list. I get a lot of warnings / errors when starting it using the command. If it's important i use https://github.com/maoiscat/mpv-osc-modern for a better looking ui.

mpv-osc-modern

Hello! I'm on MacOS using the OSC, mpv-osc-moden, from here. But even after installing everything properly, the OSC icon is not displaying properly. (See image above) The required OSC font (Material-Design-Iconic-Font.ttf) is already in the "~/.config/mpv/fonts" directory. (I doubled check it's in the correct location and the font is also installed)

ok so i am veryy noob at this! I want to have a different interface for mpv (this would work) but I tried following instructions but i keep either messin some stuff up or its just not working. Can someone please make a video for a newbie doing the process please? I have windows 10 btw