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To be fair, I don't know any benchmark for this comparison. But I just tried a relatively big file with both of them. Opening part is not really noticeable, but fast-forwarding is much better and slicker in mpv. In VLC it looks like it's jumping between scenes, in mpv you actually see the motion of it's getting fast-forward.
Yeah, with mpv you can even hold the jump 10/60 sec forward/backward button pressed and the frames just fly in the screen. Vlc seeking is really slow in comparison.
and while we are at that, MPV also has a working reverse play implementation (though that's like a slideshow), and it can very seamlessly do frame by frame playback, the hotkey of which just does normal playback perfectly while it's long pressed