MPV 0.34 Released For Popular Linux Media Player

[danboid]

I gave up on mpv, it is an unmaintained abandonware at this point, it might be a useful video player if your GNU/Linux Stockholm syndrome holds strong, it has no UI, no automatic de-interlacing detection, etc, etc, doesn't even come close to mpc-hc that you get on Windows.

There are several mpv GUIs but I don't use nor need any of them. 1 missing feature that only you need does not equal etc etc. What else does mpv not do that you need a video player to do?

[timofonic]

I gave up on mpv, it is an unmaintained abandonware at this point, it might be a useful video player if your GNU/Linux Stockholm syndrome holds strong, it has no UI, no automatic de-interlacing detection, etc, etc, doesn't even come close to mpc-hc that you get on Windows.

Please dont post FUD, you are trolling. UI isnt a requirement for mpv users, but there are UIs for mpv available.

Please stop.

[unic0rn]

I gave up on mpv, it is an unmaintained abandonware at this point, it might be a useful video player if your GNU/Linux Stockholm syndrome holds strong, it has no UI, no automatic de-interlacing detection, etc, etc, doesn't even come close to mpc-hc that you get on Windows.

it has perfectly configurable hdr tonemapping, openal audio output - which works great with openal-soft with hrtf - and android build of mpv is the only player that can actually play some (usually hdr) files properly, i couldn't force any other player to do so (tried vlc, mx player and others).

it doesn't need a shitton of updates when it works properly, unlike most other players.

[caligula]

There are just so many formats that must be supported. 4k amd 8k hdr screen with gamut control icc profiles, handling 144-250 hz refresh, hidpi, touch display, 32 1536 kHz audio with atmos ceiling channels. Channels for rgb light strips. Bass mode corrections. Mpeg5, adobergb gamut. Log formats from camera.

[TemplarGR]

I gave up on mpv, it is an unmaintained abandonware at this point, it might be a useful video player if your GNU/Linux Stockholm syndrome holds strong, it has no UI, no automatic de-interlacing detection, etc, etc, doesn't even come close to mpc-hc that you get on Windows.

There is smplayer which is quite good and what i have been mostly using for more than a decade....

[Quackdoc]

I gave up on mpv, it is an unmaintained abandonware at this point, it might be a useful video player if your GNU/Linux Stockholm syndrome holds strong, it has no UI, no automatic de-interlacing detection, etc, etc, doesn't even come close to mpc-hc that you get on Windows.

First and foremost, My condolences for the apparent brain damage you have suffered in your childhood. You gave up on MPV because you couldn't understand how it works.it's gui is perfectly fine for multimedia controls plus many mpv-based gui players. It's github show extremely active work being done on it. As for deinterlacing, I don't see the need for automatic deinterlacing. on every video player I've used, it is usually of mediocre consistency and I wind up manually enabling or disabling anyways.

Im, not sure what form of head bashing on a brick wall made you post this. but maybe at least check the git history before calling it abandonware.

[smirky]

I think they should make media player written in Rust and sandboxed with seccomp, AppArmor and Flatpak or Snap. So it can be secure when you play random movies from untrusted sources, like from BitTorrent maybe.

Can you explain what exactly may happen if I download random movies from untrusted sources? Aren't media files just containers with streams inside, which don't execute any binary code on the CPU?

[birdie]

Can you explain what exactly may happen if I download random movies from untrusted sources? Aren't media files just containers with streams inside, which don't execute any binary code on the CPU?

When you're parsing any binary format you'll have code which deals with numerical values you deemed "safe" when writing it. In the real world however files might be damaged or some ingenious person may create specially crafted files which will cause overflows and lead to code execution.

Perhaps the most notorious examples are Flash and PDF: Adobe products which have dealt with them have seen at least 400 critical vulnerabilities which allow remote code execution.

Modern video formats can be abused as well because they are hellishly difficult to parse considering the number of algos they implement.

[chocolate]

Tried Syncplay with friends recently and mpv could even allow text chat inside itself.

https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay

[dec05eba]

I think they should make media player written in Rust and sandboxed with seccomp, AppArmor and Flatpak or Snap. So it can be secure when you play random movies from untrusted sources, like from BitTorrent maybe.

why rust + seccomp? isn't c + seccomp just as secure since it gets sandboxed at kernel level anyways? you would also need to rewrite ffmpeg in rust and the video decoders, such as libx264 (assuming cpu decoding). parts of libx264 is also hand written in assembly for performance. Writing it in pure rust would lead to performance degradation.