When comparing MPlayer vs VVAVE Music Player, the Slant community recommends MPlayer for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” MPlayer is ranked 43rd while VVAVE Music Player is ranked 47th. The most important reason people chose MPlayer is:
Everything MPlayer needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Needs no additional codecs
Everything MPlayer needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed.
Pro Easy shortcut keys
Quick skip ahead buttons and other shortcut keys.
Pro No bugs , no lag in the video display
Pro Works via CLI and has multiple frontends to choose from
Some of the more popular frontends include Deepin Media Player, GNOME MPlayer, KPlayer, KMPlayer, Rosa Media Player, SMPlayer and Xt7-Player.
Pro Nice theme available to choose from
Also, the video window is separate from the main window making it less cluttered while playing audio
Pro Open source (FOSS)
LGPL licensed.
Pro KDE/Qt-based
Looks great, uses known KDE/Qt controls and integrates with the KDE Plasma desktop (including KDE Connect, MPRIS Controls, KRunner and native notifications).
Pro Convergent
Can be used across platforms on desktop (Linux), Android and Plasma Mobile (Kirigami-based).
Pro Online streaming
You can use it to stream music. It also integrates youtube-dl. It can use your offline music to let you discover new online stream media.
Cons
Con Not much documentation on the use and configuration
Con Contrary to review, some media that play well in vlc does not play in mplayer
Con Doesn't support directory playback
Con Lacks a built-in visualizer
Con Unstable on Wayland
If you even attempt to resize the program, it'll hang indefinitely.
