MPlayer2 Gone Dark, MPV Is Still Happening

[Espionage724]

It doesn't take very long to do with the mkvmerge GUI. I don't have to be a normal person to tell you that it's easy to do for normal people. Personally, I carry my own tools for this kind of stuff so I can mux an infinite number of videos automatically ( https://github.com/mmstick/ubuntu-10bit-encoding-tools ) since I have over 13,000 episodes.

Out of curiosity, what do you do with 13,000 episodes? Do you have some kind of a in-home streaming setup with multiple devices? Just archives? Seeding?

Was thinking about trying some streaming setup for media and was looking for some ideas mainly.

[rohcQaH]

Finally tried mpv, and I must say I'm impressed. Long overdue removal of dead features, much saner default configuration. Goodbye mplayer, goodbye mplayer2.

[profoundWHALE]

I've spent almost a whole day with mpv, and I've got to say... I'm impressed, and it really is cross platform! I really like it's interface and keyboard shortcuts.

Oh! And I played a [email protected] mkv (h264) and it was the only player that did not have trouble keeping in sync. All the other players would eventually be unable to drop enough frames.

[Melcar]

Currently I use mplayer2 with smplayer. Can't ask for more. Have VLC as a backup. Guess I will change if the mplayer guys keep up with their shenanigans.

[RealNC]

Still using mplayer2, even if it's dead. I really want to use MPV, but SMPlayer doesn't work with it. (CMPlayer is no substitute; it doesn't even come close to SMPlayer.)

[profoundWHALE]

All I need is vp9 with hardware decoding with opus. Mmmm

[Daktyl198]

this PPA

YES! I just found this PPA as a Mint 16 user and it's awesome. Freaking libs in Ubuntu/Mint aren't compiled with Opus support for god knows what reason and I finally got past that

The maintainer uploaded version 3.1 a little while ago but for some reason it isn't available on 13.10 based distros yet... (But I see it in the list?)

[mmstick]

Wow, I'll check out what you have there over the weekend. I've been waiting for a h.264 + opus mkv

The only problem is that most media players do not support playing MKVs with Opus audio. I've reported the bugs to developers like VLC but it has gone 3 weeks without a fix. MPV, however, works perfectly. I would recommend using Ubuntu 14.04 and this PPA as it is built with ffmpeg compiled into mpv and thus bypasses the crappy libav in Ubuntu.

[profoundWHALE]

It doesn't take very long to do with the mkvmerge GUI. I don't have to be a normal person to tell you that it's easy to do for normal people. Personally, I carry my own tools for this kind of stuff so I can mux an infinite number of videos automatically ( https://github.com/mmstick/ubuntu-10bit-encoding-tools ) since I have over 13,000 episodes.

Wow, I'll check out what you have there over the weekend. I've been waiting for a h.264 + opus mkv

[guido12]

I've not done any formal testing, but I have a load of Hi10P videos which only playback smoothly without dropped frames or garbling in mpv. AMD E2-1800, btw.

Thanks! Hmm, maybe I'll go check mpv out then. I'm using Xubuntu 12.04.3 so I'd probably need to compile it. I hope it's easy. I'm not exactly a Linux expert. Probably not even an average Linux user either in terms of skill. Anyway, less CPU usage means longer battery life for my notebook!