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

Just in time for the holiday season, as people usually find themselves spending a lot of time watching movies and TV shows, the popular MPlayer-based MPV open-source media player got an important update.

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 front... (read more)

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