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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

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Post by userulluipeste »

przemoc wrote: post #2

Apparently 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…

"The procedure entry point strlen could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll" - got this from the Lachs0r's "latest" when testing on Windows XP SP3 (which is still officially supported). What Windows is targeted?

Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player

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Post by pwenzel »

pgz wrote: post #35
pwenzel wrote: post #34

With all the talk of VLC for media playback... I use mplayer almost daily for no-frills internet radio listening. I have my terminal window open all day anyway, so no need to waste resources (screen real-estate or otherwise) on iTunes or VLC. For example, Groove Salad's AAC stream: mplayer -playlist http://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls Seeing a focus on OSX improvements in mpv, I am hoping we'll see it installable vi…

It is installable via homebrew very easily: https://github.com/mpv-player/homebrew-mpv The formula also builds `mpv.app`, I use that to open files directly from the Finder.

Great, thank you for the tip. It worked!

I ran in to a few speedbumps along the way, but it turns out I just needed the HEAD version of FFMPEG installed first.

Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player

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Post by pgz »

pwenzel wrote: post #82
pgz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is installable via homebrew very easily: https://github.com/mpv-player/homebrew-mpv The formula also builds `mpv.app`, I use that to open files directly from the Finder.

Great, thank you for the tip. It worked! I ran in to a few speedbumps along the way, but it turns out I just needed the HEAD version of FFMPEG installed first.

Interesting, it should actually build with ffmpeg 1.2 correctly (as a matter of fact I have been using it until 2 days ago).

If you can reproduce it, I'd love a bug report.

Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player

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Post by derobert »

lmm wrote: post #73
cookiecaper wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mencoder is an abomination. Unless you have an actual real-life use case where mencoder works and ffmpeg doesn't, use ffmpeg; practically everything else does, regardless of licensing (ffmpeg has a wall of shame, which I'm sure comprises only a small sample of infringers, on their site).

Last time I tried encoding with raw ffmpeg it couldn't even render subtitles.

It does now, even supporting libass to render ASS/SSA subtitles.

Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player

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Post by seagreen »

xiaomai wrote: post #45
stephengillie wrote: post #43

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mplayer and mplayer2 use the Windows codec libraries. Playing a video usually means having to learn about codec packs like ffdshow from Google searches and random internet forums, and then finding the legitimate website for the codec pack (not a linkspam site or a rehosting company like cnet who bundle Ask toolbar into the installer), then locating and downloading the codec pack on the (sometimes intentionally) badly…

None of what you are saying about mplayer has been true for years. And it has never been necessary to download codec packs for mplayer2.

Just wanted to let you know that this comment of yours from last year was a huge help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4476649

Thanks!

Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player

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Post by xiaomai »

seagreen wrote: post #85
xiaomai wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of what you are saying about mplayer has been true for years. And it has never been necessary to download codec packs for mplayer2.

Just wanted to let you know that this comment of yours from last year was a huge help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4476649 Thanks!

Oh thanks! That's always nice to hear.
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