mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
We are excited to announce the release of mpv 0.39.0, with more than 5 months of development since the last version. This release brings numerous improvements and fixes across nearly all components.
Key highlights:
- A new select.lua script, allowing users to easily choose files from playlists, tracks, chapters, output devices, and more.
- A native replacement for autoload.lua has been implemented. See --autocreate-playlist in the manual.
- NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR scaling are now supported via the d3d11va filter.
- Media controls are now supported on Windows.
- Track selection has been improved, especially for multi-component languages like fr-CA.
- A new fifth page has been added to stats.lua, displaying track information.
- Compatibility with dmabuf-wayland has been significantly enhanced.
- Multi-touch support has been introduced.
5 Comments
thayerw@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
That's an impressive list of changes!
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
I am amazed that mpv is still being developed. It was the only one in town when I started with Linux, life got easier with VLC and GUI software in general getting better at most codecs.
But here it is, chugging away.
I might give the matrix with the ASCII filter a try :))
Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
For me, VLC doesn't support VRR on gnome(didn't try KDE) so I am using MPV. Even for me, who often struggles with using the terminal, it has been a breeze to use. I even changed the config files to have MPV use hwdec by default and it wasn't difficult. Truly a marvelous project
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
It absolutely is! It was and likely still is pure magic that it just played anything. Especially back then with the codec hell. And now there are for sure a lot of use cases. Like yours!
Sabakodgo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Nice! Finally media controls and autocreate-playlist.