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MPV mentions (227)

• Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

  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). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Video stops on furst frame, audio continues to play,seek works

  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. Source: 6 months ago

• S23 8k video freezes when played on VLC computer

  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. Source: 7 months ago

• Yorick is an interpreted programming language for scientific simulations

  Https://mpv.io played it without fuss. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

  One example is a script to quickly grab the URL of the current tab and send it to mpv¹ for playing or yt-dlp² for downloading. Or send some JavaScript to that same tab. Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen in a brand new window. Alfred³ has a ton of automations that allow you to do that without having to code it yourself. ¹ https://mpv.io... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

ncdu mentions (22)

• Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

  These certainly aren't forgotten, but I like: * `ranger` file manager: https://ranger.github.io/ * `ncdu` for visualising disk usage: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu * `htop` process monitor: https://htop.dev/ I just find them very intuitive, and information-dense while not being overwhelming. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• What’s using my drive space?

  There are also more user-friendly and interactive tools to do this. I use and like ncdu, but there are others, such as duc. Source: almost 1 year ago

• The Most Useful Command Line Tools (2023 edition)

  In the same way of Dust, there is also NCDU which is an NCruses-based du interface, i.e. interactive. Source: over 1 year ago

• ec2 ebs volume getting full

  Or try ncdu if you want a simple TUI style display of what's using what. Source: over 1 year ago

• pve-root storage 90% full

  If you prefer a more graphical/interactive disk usage explorer check out ncdu https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu. Source: over 1 year ago