MPV Reviews and Details

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• How I Built a TUI Without Leaving the Terminal

  The biggest challenge I faced was getting some sort of way to play music. So I picked the easiest route—I directly implemented it with mpv and I channeled logs of mpv (which had timestamps, which I needed) to a log file under the .sparklines folder, and managed it with a socket (a two-way communication endpoint to handle the custom commands). With the power of NodeJS, I made it work out and somehow it turned out a... - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Lua scripting in mpv video player

  I checked it and the mpv-cut script turned out to be a Lua script that lets you cut a video fragment directly while watching it in the mpv player. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

  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.[0] https://mpv.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

  Https://mpv.io/ has yt-dlp support, if yt-dlp is installed you just need to throw the URL at it and it plays the video (without download). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Video stops on furst frame, audio continues to play,seek works

  I apologise for not following procedure. I am in the middle of building mpv 0.37 from source. Irrespective of the outcome I will document what I had to do in addition to the instructions on mpv.io and if the problem perststs, where it happens and where not with kernel version, mpv version taken from the screen, and the terminal output. Source: over 1 year ago

• S23 8k video freezes when played on VLC computer

  Use MPV. Partticularily shinchiro's builds. Extract the folder where you want its installation directory to be, if you decide to install it. Otherwise, just drag and drop files on top of its window or executable. Source: over 1 year ago

• Yorick is an interpreted programming language for scientific simulations

  Https://mpv.io played it without fuss. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

  One example is a script to quickly grab the URL of the current tab and send it to mpv¹ for playing or yt-dlp² for downloading. Or send some JavaScript to that same tab. Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen in a brand new window. Alfred³ has a ton of automations that allow you to do that without having to code it yourself. ¹ https://mpv.io... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Need help on how to repair this issue

  Hi there! Try with VLC or mpv players, and see if they can play the corrupted video. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Why would 4K Video downloader need a bluetooth connection?

  Bonus: install mpv while you're at it. Also available in both Homebrew and MacPorts. It's a fantastic video player that has built-in integration with yt-dlp so you can directly play videos from URLs. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How to use CMD.exe to do this in PowerShell?

  I have been looking for a means to control the video player MPV from a PowerShell terminal. Nothing too fancy just basic functions. For example adding/appending new videos to an existing MPV window. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Need help guys 🙏:

  Overmix is the tool you’re looking for. But before that, your going to need to get screenshot. I suggest mpv, as it allows you to customize and take full quality PNG, frame by frame. Then you can use Overmix to stitch the frame together into a single hi-res screenshot. Here’s an example (not Senko). Source: almost 2 years ago

• All A7 IV video is incredibly choppy and unusable.

  I shoot everything in 10-bit/4k/S-I/Slog3 Gamma, and the only media player I've found to playback smoothly is https://mpv.io/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Terminal music player that supports .lrc?

  Never heard of that file format. But there's a list on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)#Software#Software) and it has mpv on it. Source: almost 2 years ago

• pulling out the old "american website" card on an r/Birmingham post about this sub

  Sounds like you need an adBlocker. And/or alternative ways of watching YT content. Not exactly sure how this works on other OSs, but on Linux I use ytfzf to browse, and mpv to watch by youtube link. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Back to VLC? Alternatives?

  Https://mpv.io is the website, if you're not enough tech savvy you'll have a hard time even installing the program, then I'd recommend that you make a config for mpv to use hardware decoding, that will use less power and will be faster. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Beginner to Linux

  The media player I appreciate most is mpv, successor to the old mplayer and mplayer2, because of its extensive and refined hotkey support. VLC, by contrast, has a very GUI-oriented user interface. Both will play nearly anything. Source: almost 2 years ago

• displaying console prompt inside terminal

  Or at least I would hope it does since mpv.io seems to suggest it does. Source: about 2 years ago

• PC GPU HDMI out -> Soundbar HDMI input

  For movies/tv shows you will need a media player that supports bitstreaming. I personally use mpv with audio-spdif=ac3,dts,dts-hd,eac3,truehd but there are other free ones that are easier to use e.g mpc-hc, mpc-be, vlc. Source: about 2 years ago

• Opus support?

  The Plex iOS app uses a custom audio player based on mpv. Prologue just uses Apple's audio APIs. Source: about 2 years ago

• MPC-BE + madVR + SVP + anything else?

  Mvp.io I did not know that. Will have to check it out some time. Always good with options if some show happens to only be available in DV. Source: about 2 years ago

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