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

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1113 points Bluestein | 1 comments | 17 Aug 24 18:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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[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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SSLy ◴[17 Aug 24 23:02 UTC] No.41278744[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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1. 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.