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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: 0.203s | 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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1. steelframe ◴[19 Aug 24 21:17 UTC] No.41294660[source]▶
Yeah, I just pacman-installed mpv and tried running it on a 4k video. My CPU fan immediately kicked on, and top showed multiple cores getting involved. Kept scrolling this HN post to learn about hwdec=auto. Coming from mplayer and vlc my immediate question is, "What tradeoffs are the maintainers trying to make by not making this the default?"