Microsoft is charging people to play certain video formats, it's high time people switch to VLC

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  • mpc-hc

    Media Player Classic

    MPC-HC has been forked and is actively being developed at https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

  • mpv

    🎥 Command line video player

    Well, not really mpv was first to have HDR to SDR tone mapping, has mutiple ways to sync video/audio to display refresh rate for smoother playback, different up/downscale filters, over 15 different video output modules that fit your OS/GPU, different configurations for buffering, better detection for which hardware decoder is suited And, if you wanted to print it on US Letter format, 131 pages of options to tune for any kind of odd scenario you might have There is really a lot of stuff that goes into "showing images"

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • ModernX

    A modern OSC UI replacement for MPV that retains the functionality of the default OSC.

    +1 mpv.net with custom flags for vpx, av1, E-AC3, Dolby, etc implementation. and ModernX UI cuz why not.

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