mpv-player/mpv on Hacker News

…through their docs and poking around. [0] https://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/libmpv/client.... [2] https://fuchsia.googlesource.com

comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-12-03 · in A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)

…of super-res algorithms available as mpv user-shaders, including SSimSuperRes and NNEDI3. See: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts#pixel-sh... mpv supports display calibration and HDR conversion as well. You can load a…

comment by rossy · 2017-07-17 · in MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

Yeah, that seems reasonable. We have one of these to restore MPlayer bindings: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/etc/mplayer-in... Though rather than being baked in, these bindings have to be manually copied over the user's…

comment by rossy · 2017-07-17 · in MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

…unfortunately, every attempt to change them has resulted in bikeshedding and no real progress. See: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/973 Now, the general consensus is that they should be changed gradually, rather than all at once.…

comment by rossy · 2017-07-16 · in MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

…approachable and well documented. [0] https://mpv.io/ [1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ [2] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/libmpv/client....

comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-01-07 · in IINA – A modern video player for macOS

…downloaded video, with no ads, played as it was local video, hw acceleration and all. [1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv [2]: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

comment by pmlnr · 2016-11-29 · in Show HN: Simple Minimal YouTube Alternative Player (no ads...with powers)

…with certain combinations of descriptors, it will block forever, causing an application hang: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/3530#issuecomment-2...

comment by bangonkeyboard · 2016-10-11 · in Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken

…of video streams depending on the video codec, graphic card model and operating system. (o) https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/README.md (i) https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_GPU_Decoding/

comment by justifier · 2016-09-28 · in YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers

…helps, but it seems to partially make up for the inefficiency of the browser-context rendering. [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

comment by ploxiln · 2016-04-14 · in Skylake's Linux power management is dreadful you shouldn't buy until it's fixed

…More recent (2015) short take on the matter, seems pretty biased though: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libav#Fork_from_FFmpeg The github link is on mpv wik

comment by bru · 2016-02-15 · in FFmpeg 3.0 released

mpv has a nice (and opinionated, which is good) guide for the things that matter to them: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav

comment by gerjomarty · 2016-02-15 · in FFmpeg 3.0 released

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav gives an interesting perspective. Libav sounds like it's strict about good software practices and merciless in its exclusion and deletion of "bad" code. This may make a cleaner,…

comment by cookiecaper · 2015-07-25 · in Why Debian returned to FFmpeg

…capable. The reasons are obvious if you look into the development philosophies of the two projects. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav

comment by dangerlibrary · 2015-03-16 · in High quality GIF with FFmpeg

…has been removed on mpv git recently. They seem to be considering a switch to youtube-dl instead. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/9b45b48c466765b6491...

comment by yorhel · 2014-11-23 · in Youtube-dl

I think the FFmpeg vs libav debate is succinctly described by this quote from https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav > Although we don't agree with everything FFmpeg does, and we like some of Libav's general goals and…

comment by gioele · 2014-07-29 · in Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

…a nice comparison between libav and ffmpeg from the author of 'mpv' (the most viable mplayer fork): https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav It helped me make the decision (for choosing ffmpeg).

comment by zx2c4 · 2014-07-28 · in Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

…the situation: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html And from the mpv developers: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav

comment by vezzy-fnord · 2014-07-28 · in Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

http://github.com/mpv-player/mpv http://github.com/rweichler/cylinder Both of those aren't games.

comment by rweichler · 2014-03-12 · in LuaJIT 2.0.3

…from their independent perspective which (FWIW) is very accurate from my vantage point as well: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav

comment by 0x09 · 2014-01-10 · in FFmpeg and a thousand fixes

The mpv developers have written a really very good rundown of the current situation: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav

comment by 0x09 · 2013-11-16 · in Process videos in browser using FFmpeg compiled to JavaScript

I know people have been using it with XMonad. There is a fresh issue from today ( https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/179 ), is this helpful in any way?

comment by pgz · 2013-08-11 · in mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player

…subtitle file to use --playlist=<file> specify playlist file There is much more in man page. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/op...

comment by przemoc · 2013-08-11 · in mpv - 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…

comment by przemoc · 2013-08-11 · in mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player