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Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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1113 points Bluestein | 3 comments | 17 Aug 24 18:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.506s | source
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Venn1 ◴[17 Aug 24 21:20 UTC] No.41278065[source]▶
If you're on Linux, don't forget to enable hardware acceleration by adding hwdec=auto to mpv.conf. Works with AMD/Intel/NVIDIA.

https://interfacinglinux.com/2024/01/10/hardware-acceleratio...

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NavinF ◴[18 Aug 24 00:33 UTC] No.41279207[source]▶
Why would that be disabled by default?
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1. varenc ◴[18 Aug 24 03:43 UTC] No.41279988[source]▶
In addition to what others have said, hardware decoding comes with other drawbacks. There’s occasionally decoding inaccuracies and there’s no support for most video filters (unless you’re using `auto-copy`)
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2. tvshtr ◴[18 Aug 24 06:16 UTC] No.41280486[source]▶
Try watching UHD HDR on intel iGPU without accel, or AV1. MPV also supports vulkan decoders.
3. radicality ◴[18 Aug 24 19:29 UTC] No.41284755[source]▶
Do you know if/why on apple silicon Macs there’s a difference between videotoolbox and videotoolbox-copy ? I thought the SoC memory is shared and that there wouldn’t be a need for copying data from VRAM to RAM.