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.
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 :))
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
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!