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About choosing phones: I agree, but for newbies the realization may come after the purchase. And the custom ROM experiment may be postponed until the next purchase... and then forever. I have had a good example of a late realization where…

comment by PinkSheep · 2023-01-19 · in MSI's (in)Secure Boot

…doesn't quite do it justice, it's a design that deserves an epic rant like mpv's locale commit: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by matheusmoreira · 2022-12-10 · in The Plan-9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it ain't broken (2016)

…new rate, but again this is computationally expensive and complicated. mpv team has a good writeup: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Display-synchronizati...

comment by error503 · 2022-12-09 · in PipeWire 0.3.62

Oh god locales. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... Basically, if you want to break any piece of software, there's a locale for that.

comment by bombcar · 2022-11-07 · in Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior for Processes Starting with “X”

MPV has front-end projects that provide a more complete GUI if that’s something you’re after: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Applications-using-mp...

comment by aesh2Xa1 · 2022-10-05 · in VLC-developer VideoLAN sends legal notice to Indian ministries over ban

…sibling comments, tearing is definitely still a thing in X11. mpv has a whole FAQ section about it: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#tearing Some of the solutions presented there are not mpv-specific, and some of them may even…

comment by jwilk · 2022-09-19 · in An X11 apologist tries Wayland

It's unfortunate, https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8655#issuecomment-1... : > Youtube now throttles requests of more than 10MB at a time, yt-dlp works around it by making many requests of 10MB using Range HTTP headers (yt-dlp calls…

comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-09-11 · in YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

I'm probably biased, but I particularly enjoyed going through mpv - https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv I always found much of the FFmpeg API very unintuitive and much of what I now know about it I learned from reading through mpv. Hardware…

comment by Teknoman117 · 2022-09-10 · in Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

…too cringe for me and everybody else in the room. I used mpv's EDL functionality for this: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/edl-mpv.r...

comment by MichaelCollins · 2022-08-30 · in The Big [Censored] Theory

It was superseded by MPV https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv .

comment by MikusR · 2022-08-12 · in VLC media player banned in India

…arguments are simply pushed to the existing players playlist instead of opening a new player. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/umpv

comment by michaelmrose · 2022-07-19 · in Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

…Pi, and the maintainers don't seem interested in supporting it[0] even though VLC works fine. [0] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7492#issuecomment-9...

comment by nonbirithm · 2022-07-18 · in Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

…new ones based on the motion vectors in video files. It is best described by MPV's documentation at https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Interpolation

comment by UnlockedSecrets · 2022-07-18 · in Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

Mpv has an interesting commit message that rants about the insanity of C locales: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa91

comment by skitter · 2022-07-18 · in Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

Source Code: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

comment by peter_d_sherman · 2022-07-18 · in Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

…is currently being done on this[3]. [0]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/5956 [1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/7186 [2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217 [3]:…

comment by lolpython · 2022-06-14 · in Plasma 5.25

…gave up as it wasn't working. I believe I arrived at this bug report which still seems open - https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8818 Overall I just found it better to leave pretty much everything to the more battle-tested `ffmpeg`…

comment by radicality · 2022-06-02 · in Ffmpeg Buddy

If you want to read rant about setlocale, highly recommended: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by garaetjjte · 2022-02-25 · in Curious lack of sprintf scaling

…monitor. Never as impressive of the smooth motion of 60Hz video on a strobed 60Hz display. [0] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Interpolation#smoothm...

comment by NathanielK · 2022-02-06 · in Sharp-Bilinear Shaders for Retroarch

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Mpv adds support for Dolby Vision playback

story by WithinReason · 2022-01-25 · 0 comments

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by formerly_proven · 2022-01-10 · in Command Line Video Player

…[3] Written in Swift and designed with modern macOS (10.11+) in mind [4] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

comment by guessmyname · 2022-01-09 · in Command Line Video Player

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Command Line Video Player

story by tirrex · 2022-01-09 · 34 comments

…from straight from the mpv homepage. Also linked from the github page. You can also read it here: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/mpv.r... Or you can read the local manpage on your computer using the manpage reader…

comment by Eelongate · 2021-12-05 · in The team that powers VLC (2019)

…CLI to play videos. https://www.migaku.io/tools-guides/migaku-mpv/guide/ and has drama like this. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/cdaa496314f90412963... I just want to play videos, what is the benefit of MPV? I used it for a…

comment by GhettoComputers · 2021-12-04 · in The team that powers VLC (2019)

…there are details on its use & slight modification which may be necessary for some videos.[0] [0] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8283#issuecomment-7...

comment by app4soft · 2021-11-02 · in VR-reversal – a Lua-plugin for MPV to watch 360-degree video

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MPV 0.34.0

story by marcodiego · 2021-11-01 · 0 comments

…Sixel performance is quite decent: personally, I can play videos in my terminal. Try MPV on mintty: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/2183 I have also played with a X server rendering over sixel, no performance issue:…

comment by csdvrx · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

…Even basic functions like printf are affected. Reminds me of this incredible commit message: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... I found it easier to get rid of libc and write freestanding C instead. Linux…

comment by matheusmoreira · 2021-10-02 · in Fun with Glibc and the Ctype.h Functions

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Stream_libarchive: Workaround various types of locale braindeath

story by mikevm · 2021-09-23 · 0 comments

…my power, hopefully preventing my APIs from becoming a standardized mess that C locales are. [1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by ilammy · 2021-09-04 · in A nasty bit of undefined timezone behavior in Golang

…will be able to allow for system-wide video synthesis; https://youtu.be/PIgPIrYq-Pc See also https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8569 And https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ryuukyu/helvum

comment by mxmilkiib · 2021-06-23 · in PipeWire Under the Hood

…client side decorations. Yes eventually somebody implemented them, and they look like this: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/7186 Needless to say, mpv prefers xdg-decoration if compositor supports it. >There aren't any zero code…

comment by Cloudef · 2021-05-07 · in Use Alacritty instead of Termite

…similar stance as gnome devs and start telling users "it's not our bug", "report it to gnome devs". https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/3646 >SSD might be the approach used by other desktops, but it is not the only way to achieve this…

comment by Cloudef · 2021-05-07 · in Use Alacritty instead of Termite

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story by ibobev · 2021-04-14 · 0 comments

mpv also works fine as an image viewer if you don't view many high-res photographs (I don't). https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7983

comment by scaladev · 2021-03-25 · in DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

…etc. Then there's the locale chaotic nonsense [1]. A new libc starting fresh would be nice. 1. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by guerrilla · 2021-03-04 · in Git's list of banned C functions

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Stream_libarchive: Workaround various types of locale braindeath

story by guerrilla · 2021-02-16 · 0 comments

My favourite is wm4's rant about C locales. It's quite impressive. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by Hamuko · 2021-01-28 · in PSD is not my favourite file format (2009)

…advertisement on music channel. And they would be easy to skip as long as youtube-dl works. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/edl-mpv.r...

comment by sergeykish · 2020-11-22 · in You Are the Product (2017)

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Stream_libarchive: Workaround various types of locale braindeath

story by orf · 2020-11-18 · 0 comments

…compiler writers – for so many more bugs not already caused by improper string handling. [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by adwn · 2020-11-17 · in Best aspects of C

As much as this person? https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by viraptor · 2020-09-26 · in A Tale of Two Libcs

Yes mpv uses youtube-dl via the builtin ytdl_hook.lua script. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/player/lua/ytd...

comment by liability · 2020-09-12 · in Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

mpv was the latest victim: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/cce7062a8a6b6a3b

comment by jwilk · 2020-08-24 · in Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder

Ah yes, locales. Everyone loves them https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by dependenttypes · 2020-08-16 · in In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"

…message/rant. "Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text." https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by adamjb · 2020-08-16 · in In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

comment by dependenttypes · 2020-08-12 · in Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/269f0e743e5634691f0...

comment by ac29 · 2020-07-11 · in Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)

> I use GNOME Wayland and I have x/y/z problem! https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#i-use-gnome-wayla... > Is GNOME actively sabotaging the Linux Desktop? https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#Is_GNOME_actively...

comment by SimilarGeneral1 · 2020-07-10 · in Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)