mpv v0.41.0 released - libplacebo used by default; color representation protocol support for Wayland

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Barafu@reddit

Best video player EVAH! Even on Windows! Plays through rare formats and broken files that make VLC to freeze. Customizable controls, scriptable, lightweight. Only two video players support DLSS on Windows - mpv and PotPlayer (alas, mpv in this case requires typing the resolution of the video into config, needs extra automating).

There are some GUIs that wrap mpv if you need. Everyone likes Haruna, but Haruna records down everything you watch and the dev does not see it as a privacy problem, so it will likely continue doing it. Maybe someone should make a fork and fix it. Better to use the bare mpv, it is not a problem.

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the_abortionat0r@reddit

Lol what? DLSS for a video? That sounds like a joke as DLSS requires motion vectors which a video can provide. Then there's the fact that DLSS samples a full scene at a lower resolution and denoises the data. That's impossible for a video.

Is this just NIS?

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Granpire@reddit

To clarify, DLSS isn't exactly the right word here, the features are called RTX HDR video and RTX Super Resolution video, both can be enabled in the Nvidia app for the few supported video players along with most browser streamed video.

They're pretty good at what they do (HDR tone mapping and upscaling), but I personally prefer FSRCNN2x as an upscaler and inverse tone mapping for SDR to HDR.

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Barafu@reddit

Upscaling does not require motion vectors. Framegen does, and even then it is optional.

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ExTraveler@reddit

Didn't heard of haruna before. Is everyone really using it? Better than uosc?

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BrodatyBear@reddit

Better is subjective. MPV is great and I respect that author tries to keep it minimal (it's also one of the reasons why we have amazing GUI wrappers), but I, like many other ppl like to have some QOL features out of the box, and that's what Haruna is aiming for.

In my experience, it's a bit more stable than MPC-QT (still, because they are working on it), while being customizable enough.

I still have my old config with uosc on my main PC (because it's more customizable (technically some settings should work in both places)), but everywhere else I put Haruna (and mpv.net on Windows), and I could adjust everything with 2-3 settings without re-learning commands.

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Barafu@reddit

It is a preinstalled player of choice on several popular kde distros, starting with Bazzite. I guess it means people use it. It also has a prominent position in official kde apps list.

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Cubeseer@reddit

what do you mean by Haruna recording everything you watch? Like a local list or does it send it to the devs?

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Barafu@reddit

No, locally, in its .config. I still don't like it. Such things can leak encrypted data and should not be considered Ok in principle.

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InternetAnon94@reddit

Can someone porting mpc-hc? the closest is mpc-qt but it just doesnt feel right

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BrodatyBear@reddit

> Can someone port mpc-hc?

If it were this simple, it probably would already be done since the source is available. Afaik, the problem is that it has too many windows-specific things.

If "mpc-qt doesn't feel right", maybe try Haruna? It's also close but, imho it's little simplified. There's also a good old SMPlayer (has both MPlayer and mpv backends). If you don't mind, you can also try to install MPC-HC through Wine since, AFAIK, it works fine (I haven't tried).

You haven't told us what the problem is, so sorry if some of my guesses are wrong.

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creamcolouredDog@reddit

As someone who used MPC-HC on Windows for a long time, I honestly don't know what it offers over mpv and libmpv-based players.

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580083351@reddit

You can use renderers that are not mpv in Windows because of DirectShow.

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creamcolouredDog@reddit

Isn't DirectShow completely deprecated and obsolete

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580083351@reddit

Nah, sure MS introduced another set of media frameworks, but they don't depreciate existing tech. So all the other renderers like madvr, mpcvr, evr-cp, etc. continue to work.

Choice is good. I took a look at mpv 0.41 and it'll need tuning, it's a touch on the dull side with the default settings.

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Ashratt@reddit

I miss it (well, mpc-be) so much on linux lol

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esanchma@reddit

For those unaware: gpu-next and libplacebo are the mechanisms mpv use to load GLSL shaders. You can use shaders such as FSR to upscale video. It is so cool as it sounds.

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dbcoopernz@reddit (OP)

How well does FSR work for video upscaling? Especially for cinematic rather than animated video.

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