MPV 0.31 Video Player Adds Pseudo Client Side Decorations, Wayland Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MPV 0.31 Video Player Adds Pseudo Client Side Decorations, Wayland Improvements

MPV, the open-source cross-platform media player derived from MPlayer/mplayer2 long ago, is out with a new feature release before closing out 2019...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MPV-0.31-Released

[Gusar]

NVIDIA VDPAU usage under EGL

Funny thing here, this doesn't actually work with the Nvidia driver, only with Mesa drivers, so AMD basically. Nvidia doesn't expose the vdpau_interop extension under EGL, only under GLX. So on Nvidia, you have to specify --gpu-context=x11 for VDPAU to work (the x11egl context is default).

[Guest]

I don't know if I'm misremembering, but I thought the main dev for mpv was heavily against implementing CSD for Wayland?

[bwat47]

Finally, the lack of decorations on wayland was so annoying

[ssokolow]

I don't know if I'm misremembering, but I thought the main dev for mpv was heavily against implementing CSD for Wayland?

Judging by the description, I get the impression they just requested a slightly bigger window and repurposed part of the OSD-style control console code to generate things that are the bare minimum that can be called "pseudo-CSD". (Hence the "pseudo-". No effort to match the desktop or anything... just clickable somethings.)

[Britoid]

Finally, the lack of decorations on wayland was so annoying

Celluloid (GNOME MPV) might be a better frontend.

[xpris]

Celluloid (GNOME MPV) might be a better frontend.

or SMPlayer

[flux242]

psuedo client side decoration, huh? And still no appimage...

[Britoid]

psuedo client side decoration, huh? And still no appimage...

AppImages suck.

[aufkrawall]

Celluloid (GNOME MPV) might be a better frontend.

It breaks --video-sync=display-resample on Wayland.