MPV 0.25 Media Player Released With Numerous Changes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MPV 0.25 Media Player Released With Numerous Changes

For fans of MPV as the media player forked from MPlayer/MPlayer2, a new release was tagged this weekend...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MPV-0.25-Released

[Linuxxx]

Phoronix: MPV 0.25 Media Player Released With Numerous Changes

For fans of MPV as the media player forked from MPlayer/MPlayer2, a new release was tagged this weekend...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-0.25-Released

Unfortunately, this will be the last release with a conventional numerical release-tag! (i.e. MPV [or rather mpv] will never reach version 1.0)

All other releases from now on will be tagged by their weird-ass git commit ID in the master branch...

[FireBurn]

Unfortunately, this will be the last release with a conventional numerical release-tag! (i.e. MPV [or rather mpv] will never reach version 1.0)

All other releases from now on will be tagged by their weird-ass git commit ID in the master branch...

Urg, the whole point of tags is you don't need to remember the SHA ID - sigh

[dungeon]

Unfortunately, this will be the last release with a conventional numerical release-tag! (i.e. MPV [or rather mpv] will never reach version 1.0)

All other releases from now on will be tagged by their weird-ass git commit ID in the master branch...

Who cares, people probably just run the script:

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build

I run this roughly once they make release, works for years like that... or you mean something would be changed there?

mpv 0.25.0-7-g809d160 (C) 2000-2017 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on Mon Apr 24 07:29:00 CEST 2017
ffmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       55.61.100
   libavcodec      57.93.100
   libavformat     57.72.101
   libswscale      4.7.101
   libavfilter     6.86.100
   libswresample   2.8.100
ffmpeg version: N-85641-gdd49eff

Using Devuan 1.0 for couple days, works there same way... didn't expected it would work on oldish dist, but it does

[aufkrawall]

Devs really make it easy for one to compile, if just everybody would be that philanthrope...

[TheBlackCat]

Who cares, people probably just run the script:

Most probably use their distro-provided version, which depends on increasing version numbers to determine which version to install.

[dungeon]

Most probably use their distro-provided version, which depends on increasing version numbers to determine which version to install.

Yeah distro problematics There are epohs in Debian, upstream can change whatever versions 100 times differently does not matter, put a number at begining and say what you want version...

It is not an issue if they changed it once in 5 years, probably wanna make it clear version because of these relicense shit or something

Devs really make it easy for one to compile, if just everybody would be that philanthrope...

Well, it is the similar for mplayer svn, running configure immidiately download new fmpeg and compile everything in couple minutes.

$ mplayer
MPlayer SVN-r37933 (C) 2000-2017 MPlayer Team

I recommend MPlayer actually first, especially as these MPV devs tend to remove/disable/break a lot of things of their choice which might not be someone elses choice . And yeah I think MPlayer is faster on old hardware (maybe even on newer, i randomly checked GL vo and it uses double less CPU with mplayer here and there ), have more features old outputs people might want, more control, etc... they tend to not remove and particulary not relicensing anything