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Install MPV Media Player On Ubuntu 17.04

August 5, 2020

MPV media player (FFmpeg version). How to install the latest MPV Media Player in Ubuntu 17.04. MPV is a Ubuntu Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

MPV Player 0.25

MPV Player 0.25 release drops support for OS X 10.7 and earlier. Support for some optical media functionality (DVD/CD) is now disabled by default.

Added

  • TOOLS: add acompressor.lua script for runtime acompressor ffmpeg filter control
  • dvb: add support for DVB-T2
  • lavfi: support hwdec filters for –lavfi-complex
  • macOS: initial Touch Bar support
  • osc: add volume button (mouse wheel to change volume)
  • sub: add SDH subtitle filter
  • vo_opengl: add experimental vdpauglx backend
  • vo_opengl: implement videotoolbox hwdec on iOS

Removed

  • image_writer: remove useless formats (PPM, PGM, TGA)
  • af_drc: remove (use –af=acompressor instead; higher quality)

Changed

  • command: update sub-fps etc. options on runtime changes
  • vo_opengl: prefer X11 backends over Wayland backends
  • options: change –audio-file-auto default to not to load any files

Deprecated

  • audio: deprecate most non-lavfi audio filters
    (channels, equalizer, pan, volume)
  • video: deprecate almost all non-lavfi video filters
    (buffer, crop, dlopen, dsize, eq, expand, flip, gradfun, mirror, noformat,
    pullup, rotate, scale, stereo3d, sub, yadif)
  • options: deprecate –loop semantics (planned alias to –loop-file)

Install MPV on Ubuntu

Run the following commands in Terminal to install MPV Media Player on Ubuntu Linux:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/mpv-tests
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mpv

Once installed, open the MPV media player from Ubuntu Dash. Note that you won’t find any menu options. Simply drop the media file into the player window to play.

Uninstall MPV from Ubuntu

If you don’t want to use it anymore and wish to uninstall and remove the MPV media player from Ubuntu Systems, run the following commands:

sudo apt remove mpv
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get update

Install MPV Media Player On Ubuntu 17.04 originally posted on Source Digit – Latest Technology, Gadgets & Gizmos.

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