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Well there's an old kid in town, MPC-HC is still being maintained[1] to the great joy for us who dislike the VLC UX.

[1]: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/

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If mpv on Linux and MPC-HC on Windows, what is recommended on macOS?
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It's nice to see that someone revived MPC-HC (again). For a while MPC-BE[1] was the alternative. I don't know how they compare today, but the latter is still great.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/

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Agreed, Media player classic is the Winamp of video.
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Ugh... for the life of me I still can't understand why you can't click to play pause in VLC. Probably once upon a time it was about dvd, but the number of played dvds compared to pirated mk4 is probably one to a billion.
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mpv is really good but a little light on the GUI; I recommend VLC for most people
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mpv is great for scripting, though.
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SMPplayer is a frontend for mpv which I use and like.
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It also has MPC GUI mode for nostalgia :)

On macOS, IINA is my go-to mpv wrapper nowadays, and last time I tried, Haruna is pretty good on KDE.

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Yep, highly recommend https://www.smplayer.info with dark skin :)
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Still vastly prefer mpv[0].

0. https://mpv.io

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MPC is better if you're on Windows.
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PotPlayer is the new kid, I guess? Personally I don't like VLC because of the UI, so I've always used MPC.
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