MPV 0.18.0 Open-Source Video Player Lands with HiDPI Support for Wayland, More | Linux Today

MPV 0.18.0 Open-Source Video Player Lands with HiDPI Support for Wayland, More

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Marius Nestor
Jun 27, 2016

Prominent new features of MPV 0.18.0 include support for HiDPI (High Dots Per Inch) displays on the next-generation Wayland display server, support for the SMPTE ST 2084 Dolby Perceptual Quantizer (PQ), as well as support for the Matroska (MKV) WebVTT format, which is usually used for displaying timed text tracks.

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Marius Nestor

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