Sadly it doesn't work with SMPlayer. They seemed to have changed some options.
mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
11–20 of 86 posts
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#12> (from the changelog) Support for playing URLs of popular streaming sites directly (e.g. mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...)
While a nice effort, this will really put a fast freshness date to their builds. Popular streaming sites continuously changes their api's to prevent third-party software from using their service.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#13Apparently 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?
The main selling point of mpv, IMHO, is video quality and color correctness. You can get pretty nice results (on par with MadVR on Windows) with --vo=opengl-hq and it's many suboptions.
Minimalism is also something people are interested in. mpv has 1/5 the code of mplayer and 1/6 of VLC but still has relevant features.
They appeal to different kind of users. For example, even if I am in the mpv team, I will recommend VLC to my 'average Joe' friend as I know he would be put off by the CLI usage and config file editing.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#14Why not VLC?
I suppose mplayer and its forks are good for cross platform.
On Windows, and if you ask me, the best experience i have now is MPC-BE. Which is based on MPC-HC, which is based on MPC.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
In central Europe teletext is still supported by all TVs and broadcasting companies. A lot of older people read the latest news via teletext. The browsing effect is similar to HN, it shows just the news headlines and the interface is text only - no fancy graphics or ads. With a single button press you see a short summary. That way you can read the news of the day in less than 5min - something that is hard to achieve for Joe Doe with the internet.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#16Earlier 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?
The main selling point of mpv, IMHO, is video quality and color correctness. You can get pretty nice results (on par with MadVR on Windows) with --vo=opengl-hq and it's many suboptions. Minimalism is also something people are interested in. mpv has 1/5 the code of mplayer and 1/6 of VLC but still has relevant features. They appeal to different kind of users. For example, even if I am in the mpv team, I will recommend…
It's nice to see a renewed interest in developing mplayer. Do you know if there are plans to get it packaged by the major distros?
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main selling point of mpv, IMHO, is video quality and color correctness. You can get pretty nice results (on par with MadVR on Windows) with --vo=opengl-hq and it's many suboptions. Minimalism is also something people are interested in. mpv has 1/5 the code of mplayer and 1/6 of VLC but still has relevant features. They appeal to different kind of users. For example, even if I am in the mpv team, I will recommend…
It's nice to see a renewed interest in developing mplayer. Do you know if there are plans to get it packaged by the major distros?
I know it was added to deb-multimedia some days ago and it is also in the gentoo-multimedia overlay and on AUR.
I think many distributions would consider mpv a duplicate of mplayer, so for one to be packaged officially the other would have to be removed. Realistically that's not going to happen anytime soon.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#18> (from the changelog) Support for playing URLs of popular streaming sites directly (e.g. mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... ) While a nice effort, this will really put a fast freshness date to their builds. Popular streaming sites continuously changes their api's to prevent third-party software from using their service.
The support is done through libquvi, so the distro only needs to update libquvi-scripts to make it behave.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#19Apparently 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?
My experience with mplayer (and hopefully mpv) has been that it's very resilient - it's able to play almost any video file, even those that crash or lock up VLC. And it's blazingly fast too.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#20Been using mpv for many months as my only video player on my laptop Archlinux setup and everything has been great.
Been telling people to check it out and no single complaint has been given, and most have changed solely to mpv.
The -opengl-hq option is a great option to easily get acceptable quality playback without the hassle.
But even still, Windows is so much ahead in video playback by just a hobby of one guy (Madshi, software being Madvr) that it is a shame to Os X and desktop linux. FRC (smooth motion without any of the soap opera effect people hate) completely removes the need to use 23.976 Hz on your monitor, so you can use what your monitor is build to use. With Jinc + anti-ringing filter as the scaler, your image looks gorgeus even how much you need to upscale it.
These are the reasons my HTPC still runs Windows even though I love mpv and would like to change but my eyes can't make the jump just yet.