Popular MPV Open-Source Media Player Gets FFmpeg 3.4, Vulkan, and D3D11 Support | Linux Today

Popular MPV Open-Source Media Player Gets FFmpeg 3.4, Vulkan, and D3D11 Support

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Marius Nestor
Dec 26, 2017

Updated to version 0.28.0, MPV has received supported for the latest FFMpeg 3.4 open-source multimedia backend, which means that it now requires the libavutil = 56.6.100, libavcodec = 58.7.100, libavformat = 58.0.102, libswscale = 5.0.101, libavfilter = 7.0.101, and libswresample = 3.0.100 libraries to compile on supported operating systems. MPV 0.28.0 also ships with a bunch of interesting new features, among which we can mention initial support for the Vulkan graphics API and Direct3D 11, an Android OpenGL backend, support for NVIDIA Hardware Video Decoder, a mediacodec hardware decoder for IMGFMT_MEDIACODEC frames, support for Display P3 primaries, as well as support for up to eight frontends.

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Marius Nestor

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