COSMIC Desktop's 5th Alpha Release: COSMIC Media Player
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Rust-Based COSMIC Desktop Gets 5th Alpha Release with COSMIC Media Player

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Marius Nestor
Jan 13, 2025

COSMIC Alpha 5 introduces an early version of COSMIC Media Player, which is now the default media player in Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS. System76 says that COSMIC Media Player uses Vulkan for video rendering and Video Acceleration API (VA–API) for video decoding.
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