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🎥 Command line media player

157 mentions on Hacker News by 131 people: 34 stories, 123 comments · first 2013-08-11 · latest 2026-07-14

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  1. …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
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    mpv v0.3.0 - new version of movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2
    story by przemoc · 2013-12-30 · 0 comments
  3. The mpv developers have written a really very good rundown of the current situation: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav
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    Mpv video player 0.2 release
    story by pgz · 2013-10-19 · 0 comments
  5. 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?
  6. …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...
  7. …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…