mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
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Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#2Apparently I was living under a rock, because I was unaware of mpv... Maybe you too?
mpv is a free and open-source general-purpose video player. It is based on the MPlayer and mplayer2 projects which it greatly improves.
Changes from mplayers: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/ch...
Quoting JEEB's explanation from IRC:
> sounds like mplayer2, which used to be uau's patchset for mplayer. And then mpv was forked out of mplayer2 because uau wouldn't merge things from other developers
Lachs0r's Windows binaries: http://mpv.srsfckn.biz/
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#3As a user this is all just a big mess. Mplayer2 had some nice improvements (does straight mplayer support mkv segment linking yet?) but also removed some important features (e.g. mencoder). (Side note: ffmpeg has been refusing patches to add new filters because they're working on a new filter infrastructure. For something like 4 years now). It's even worse if you're on windows and want to use a frontend as well.
Here's hoping the various groups resolve their differences somehow or a clear winner emerges.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#4As a user this is all just a big mess. Mplayer2 had some nice improvements (does straight mplayer support mkv segment linking yet?) but also removed some important features (e.g. mencoder). (Side note: ffmpeg has been refusing patches to add new filters because they're working on a new filter infrastructure. For something like 4 years now). It's even worse if you're on windows and want to use a frontend as well. Here…
Looking through the changes that mpv introduces, it looks like they've brought back encoding. The primary motivation for yet-another-mplayer-fork, is that they are explicitly removing complex, obsolete code in an effort to encourage fresh blood to join the developers; given that what they are removing includes 'teletext' support, this is probably not a bad thing.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#5As a user this is all just a big mess. Mplayer2 had some nice improvements (does straight mplayer support mkv segment linking yet?) but also removed some important features (e.g. mencoder). (Side note: ffmpeg has been refusing patches to add new filters because they're working on a new filter infrastructure. For something like 4 years now). It's even worse if you're on windows and want to use a frontend as well. Here…
I believe the new filter infrastructure is now in ffmpeg. Infact they added many filters lately (1.2 and 2.0 releases) and ported most of libmpcodecs (mplayer's) filters.
mplayer still doesn't support mkv segment linking.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#6As a user this is all just a big mess. Mplayer2 had some nice improvements (does straight mplayer support mkv segment linking yet?) but also removed some important features (e.g. mencoder). (Side note: ffmpeg has been refusing patches to add new filters because they're working on a new filter infrastructure. For something like 4 years now). It's even worse if you're on windows and want to use a frontend as well. Here…
Looking through the changes that mpv introduces, it looks like they've brought back encoding. The primary motivation for yet-another-mplayer-fork, is that they are explicitly removing complex, obsolete code in an effort to encourage fresh blood to join the developers; given that what they are removing includes 'teletext' support, this is probably not a bad thing.
I am sure that there will be an outcry among teletext users how the devs dared to remove their favourite feature!
Let’s see when/what Debian releases…
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#7Apparently I was living under a rock, because I was unaware of mpv... Maybe you too? mpv is a free and open-source general-purpose video player. It is based on the MPlayer and mplayer2 projects which it greatly improves. Changes from mplayers: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/ch... Quoting JEEB's explanation from IRC: > sounds like mplayer2, which used to be uau's patchset for mplayer. And th…
I discovered it few days ago. Currently trying to set up Xmonad to work with it's fullscreen.
What are the main pros comparing to, lets say, VLC?
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#8Apparently I was living under a rock, because I was unaware of mpv... Maybe you too? mpv is a free and open-source general-purpose video player. It is based on the MPlayer and mplayer2 projects which it greatly improves. Changes from mplayers: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/ch... Quoting JEEB's explanation from IRC: > sounds like mplayer2, which used to be uau's patchset for mplayer. And th…
I discovered it few days ago. Currently trying to set up Xmonad to work with it's fullscreen. What are the main pros comparing to, lets say, VLC?
While I have VLC installed, I think I haven't used it for ages, constantly relying on mplayer2 almost since its inception, until today that is. :)
In the past VLC used to display wrong colors or downgrade video quality for better performance, not sure how it is now (possibly a bit better).
Relevant: http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Media_Playe...
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#9Apparently I was living under a rock, because I was unaware of mpv... Maybe you too? mpv is a free and open-source general-purpose video player. It is based on the MPlayer and mplayer2 projects which it greatly improves. Changes from mplayers: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/ch... Quoting JEEB's explanation from IRC: > sounds like mplayer2, which used to be uau's patchset for mplayer. And th…
I discovered it few days ago. Currently trying to set up Xmonad to work with it's fullscreen. What are the main pros comparing to, lets say, VLC?
low startup time, powerful command line options
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I discovered it few days ago. Currently trying to set up Xmonad to work with it's fullscreen. What are the main pros comparing to, lets say, VLC?
low startup time, powerful command line options
> powerful command line options
Don't be fooled by simplified mpv --help output. :)
Usage: mpv [options] [url|path/]filename
Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
--start= seek to given (percent, seconds, or hh:mm:ss) position
--no-audio do not play sound
--no-video do not play video
--fs fullscreen playback
--sub= specify subtitle file to use
--playlist= specify playlist file
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/op...