I've been using mpv for a few months now and have to say that I grew to like it. Coming from mplayer I'm used to not asking myself "Can my player play this piece of data" but just throw it in and see what happens. mpv does this just as well (if not better) than mplayer.
Besides that theres a zillion little usability improvements that make using it much better than mplayer, which is one of the main reasons why I stuck with it.
The integration of libquvi is also pretty nice; Just throw a youtube URL into mpv and it'll play - even the ones you can only view with flash in the browser. :)
But beware, this was a bitch to get running on Gentoo. YMMV.
Besides that theres a zillion little usability improvements that make using it much better than mplayer, which is one of the main reasons why I stuck with it.
The integration of libquvi is also pretty nice; Just throw a youtube URL into mpv and it'll play - even the ones you can only view with flash in the browser. :)
But beware, this was a bitch to get running on Gentoo. YMMV.