MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs.
On the Vulkan side, MPV 0.41 now prefers Vulkan Video hardware decoding where available instead of other video APIs. Other alternatives like VA-API remain available for scenarios where Vulkan Video driver or GPU hardware support isn’t available for it.
MPV 0.41 also now uses libplacebo’s "gpu-next" by default rather than the "gpu" target. With gpu-next there is improved color management support that is also important as MPV 0.41 now supports…
MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs.
On the Vulkan side, MPV 0.41 now prefers Vulkan Video hardware decoding where available instead of other video APIs. Other alternatives like VA-API remain available for scenarios where Vulkan Video driver or GPU hardware support isn’t available for it.
MPV 0.41 also now uses libplacebo’s "gpu-next" by default rather than the "gpu" target. With gpu-next there is improved color management support that is also important as MPV 0.41 now supports Wayland’s color management functionality.
On the Wayland side, in addition to color representation protocol "wp-color-representation-v1" support for HDR there is also now tablet input support too. MPV 0.41 also adds clipboard writing support for Wayland.
MPV 0.41 also makes use now of the ambient light sensor API under Linux exposed by sysfs with drivers like the AMDGPU code on modern Ryzen laptops.
Plus fixes and other enhancements for this all-around nice update to the MPV video player. MPV 0.41 can be downloaded from GitHub.