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  1. …that. He makes all of the best mpv commits anyways. Here's just a couple ones I quickly dug up: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/7d11eda72e90d7aa9df... https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/c4dc600f1f2e08f87cf...…
    comment by Hamuko · 2020-07-10 · in Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)
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    Stream_libarchive: Workaround various types of locale braindeath
    story by notRobot · 2020-07-07 · 0 comments
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    MPV Stops Supporting Gnome
    story by avery42 · 2020-07-07 · 0 comments
  4. …of code from a larger collection of userscripts. Even so though, I think it's a testament to Lua. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts
    comment by catalogia · 2020-07-01 · in Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013)
  5. ▲ 2
    GitHub Issue: mpv is not written in Rust
    story by pcr910303 · 2020-05-15 · 1 comment
  6. …at this commit [1] before reverting it in my local branch and thinking glad I went with Intel. [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/6385a5fd1b8a67c051b...
    comment by nominated1 · 2020-05-07 · in New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile
  7. …a bit subjective) ideas. Like... deprecating locales. (For why locales aren't well-designed ideas: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... )
    comment by pcr910303 · 2020-04-14 · in Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
  8. …deal with the locale fiasco at some point? Some hints on what I'm referring to can be found here: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... Unrelated, but I also miss a binary constant notation (such as 0b10101)
    comment by ux · 2020-04-14 · in Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
  9. …it's a frontend for MPV? https://mpv.io/ or plenty of other options here https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Applications-using-mp...
    comment by moondev · 2020-03-27 · in Darling – Run macOS software on Linux
  10. …absolutely hilarious, and a great example of someone rage typing after dealing with an issue. [0] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21290517
    comment by mroche · 2020-03-09 · in My favourite Git commit (2019)
  11. …LC_* was a really, really bad idea[0]), etc... Does anyone know of an alternative stdlib for C? [0] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
    comment by pcr910303 · 2019-12-04 · in C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
  12. Locales in C are an example of this. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... > The locale (via setlocale()) is global state, and global state is not a reasonable way to do anything. > It will break libraries, or…
    comment by matheusmoreira · 2019-10-31 · in Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise
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    mpv 0.30.0 released
    story by logix · 2019-10-25 · 0 comments
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    Stream_libarchive: Workaround various types of locale braindeath
    story by DiabloD3 · 2019-10-18 · 0 comments
  15. …about locales and encodings. You can practically feel the committer's sheer frustration. [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
    comment by beefhash · 2019-10-18 · in My Favourite Git Commit
  16. Ah thank you. Some good info here: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/4418
    comment by OhneHerren · 2019-08-19 · in The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
  17. …and also one of the first projects to use modern futures (and deprecate older versions too). [1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv#ffmpeg-vs-libav
    comment by m45t3r · 2019-01-19 · in HandBrake 1.2.0 Released
  18. …have it on their roadmap. has that changed? because anything less would mean a hard pass from me https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/177
    comment by kkarakk · 2019-01-01 · in IINA: A modern video player for macOS
  19. Will anything be done about this problem? https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
    comment by man-and-laptop · 2018-11-12 · in C2x: the next real revision of the C standard
  20. …a compositor such as compton. From the linked article, here is a test video for tearing [1]. [0]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ [1]: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/274755154/kenjo_vidtest_60fps...
    comment by miduil · 2018-09-16 · in Fixing Xorg's Modesetting Driver Tearing on Intel Skylake IGPs
  21. Looks like there has been a lot[1] of discussion about it, but nothing decided yet? 1: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/5571
    comment by blacksmith_tb · 2018-04-20 · in FFmpeg 4.0 released
  22. …Note that you need to pass it the link to the playlist itself and not a video in the playlist: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_play_Yo...
    comment by vatueil · 2018-04-14 · in Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube
  23. >Why replace it with something that breaks existing code? https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
    comment by dralley · 2018-04-12 · in Fuchsia is not Linux
  24. …+ mpv". [0] https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard [1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ [2] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv [3] http://www.smtube.org/
    comment by app4soft · 2018-03-27 · in Show HN: HookRSSTube – It's YouTube RSS Except Video Playback Is on HookTube
  25. ▲ 2
    RFC: for an official mpv GUI
    story by Santosh83 · 2018-02-10 · 0 comments
  26. Looks alive to me: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commits/master
    comment by mrob · 2017-12-04 · in The European Parliament has approved budget for VLC bug bounty program
  27. Their thriving Git repository says otherwise: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
    comment by saagarjha · 2017-12-04 · in The European Parliament has approved budget for VLC bug bounty program
  28. …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)
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    C Locale Rant
    story by pgz · 2017-11-13 · 0 comments
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    Stream_libarchive: workaround various types of locale braindeath
    story by ygra · 2017-11-12 · 5 comments
  31. …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
  32. 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
  33. …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
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    MPV error: JPEG gets played as MP3
    story by setra · 2017-02-14 · 0 comments
  35. …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
  36. …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)
  37. …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
  38. …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
  39. …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
  40. …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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. ▲ 1
    FFMpeg vs. libav
    story by captn3m0 · 2015-03-28 · 0 comments
  44. ▲ 1
    Ffmpeg vs. libav. Brief history and pros/cons
    story by nichochar · 2015-03-18 · 0 comments
  45. …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
  46. …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
  47. 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
  48. …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
  49. …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
  50. 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