I use MPV only to play HDR10+ content, which VLC (stable) does not yet support. v4 does, but that’s still nightly.
As for “seamless seeking”, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed either of them being slower by comparison. Plus, what kind of content are you watching where you need to constantly seek around so much?
E: oh I didn’t realize this was linuxmemes. I’m mostly on Windows, so maybe it depends on that as well.
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