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1113 points Bluestein | 8 comments | 17 Aug 24 18:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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jwells89 ◴[17 Aug 24 19:58 UTC] No.41277461[source]▶
This has always worked well for me, handling anything that’s thrown at it with ease.

Things may have changed since then, but when I first encountered the project several years ago it seemed like the thing that made this project stand out compared to other player projects was a big emphasis on correctness and accurate playback. There have files I’ve encountered that for example VLC will play with quirks (color reproduction is not quite right, etc) that mpv plays perfectly.

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loeg ◴[17 Aug 24 22:17 UTC] No.41278458[source]▶
Hm, I've had (significant) issues with color representation playing back "HDR" media in mpv.
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SSLy ◴[17 Aug 24 22:52 UTC] No.41278682[source]▶
was the material purple-green by chance?
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loeg ◴[17 Aug 24 22:59 UTC] No.41278731{3}[source]▶
Yeah. I did try playing around with some of the colorspace options you can find googling, but nothing seemed to work.
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1. SSLy ◴[17 Aug 24 23:02 UTC] No.41278744{4}[source]▶
That's a Dolby Vision Profile 5 file. A format that's very very proprietary. The only PC apps that can play them at all are https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p9zh5fl1bfk?hl=en-ms&gl=M... and https://firecore.com/infuse
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2. talliedthoughts ◴[18 Aug 24 09:42 UTC] No.41281286[source]▶
Is there a way to use Infuse on PC? The only links I see are to the App Store
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3. SSLy ◴[18 Aug 24 10:10 UTC] No.41281389[source]▶
Macs are PC's, you can also make a hackintosh.

EDIT2: if you consider an ARM board that you can install custom OS on as a PC – admittedly, bit of a stretch – then you can grab UGOOS AM6B plus / AM6 plus / Minix u22x-j max

install CoreELEC on it and enjoy DV.

https://github.com/CoreELEC/CoreELEC/releases https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/dolby-vision-for-minix-u22x... Recommended settings: https://justpaste.it/divn9 Installation instructions 1: https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/guide-s922x-j-ugoos-am6b-co... Installation instructions 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1ajszn9/remux_lovers_...

EDIT: I forgot that for Windows playback, you also need the HEVC and DoVi codec packages.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P9ZH5FL1BFK https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PLTG1LWPHLF https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nmzlz57r3t7

4. literallycancer ◴[18 Aug 24 14:03 UTC] No.41282448[source]▶
You can play it with mpv, it depends on the hardware/drivers. It worked fine on a random Ryzen Lenovo laptop with Linux even though MacOS version of mpv couldn't play it correctly on M2 (even though Apple claims that M2 is compatible with the format).
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5. FabHK ◴[18 Aug 24 14:12 UTC] No.41282505[source]▶
Infuse is great. I use it to play stuff (in basically any format) from the NAS through the Apple TV on a dumb TV.
6. SSLy ◴[18 Aug 24 15:15 UTC] No.41282858[source]▶
And you're sure it was a Profile 5, not 7/8 file?
7. daneel_w ◴[18 Aug 24 16:06 UTC] No.41283179[source]▶
It depends on what format/decoder support went into your particular build of mpv. It offloads almost all of its capabilities onto ffmpeg and its supporting libraries, which in turn won't necessarily be built with exactly everything enabled.
8. adrian_b ◴[18 Aug 24 16:10 UTC] No.41283205[source]▶
Nowadays mpv is able to decode it correctly, but it usually requires for that the command-line option "--vo=gpu-next".

A couple of years ago, mpv was unable to handle it.