I don’t know. I use mpv because I switched to Linux in 2006 and I’m used to it now.

I did! I see it on my students’ screens in December. There is some other software that does little things like that. Pale Moon does something for Halloween I believe. I hardly ever watch videos on my computer though.

I was team mpc until about 2006, now I’m team mpv.

I still can’t remember why I disliked VLC, I think the first time I used it the video would not work but it played with mplayer.

Still good to have VLC around though, glad to see them stickin’ around all these years.