mpv is a CLI media player
The release of the new version of MPV 0.36.0 was recently announced, a version in which a lot of changes and improvements have been implemented to the player, besides that this is the last version that contains the waf compilation system.
For those of you who are new to MPV, you should know that this is a command line media player. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, video and audio codecs, and subtitle types.
Main new features of MPV 0.36.0
In this new version, we can find that added vo_kitty output module, which uses the kitty protocol to display graphics in the terminal, instead of generating an image based on seisels, plus the module has been tested on kitty and Konsole terminal emulators.
Another of the changes that stands out in this new version is that the vo_gpu_next output module capabilities, built on top of libplacebo and using Vulkan, OpenGL, Metal or Direct3D 11 graphics APIs for rendering and rendering, have been extended and provides analysis of Dolby Vision metadata for dynamic control of scene brightness.
In Wayland protocol-based environments, support has been added for the wp-fractional-scale-v1 protocol extension, with which the composite manager can pass non-integer surface scale values.
In addition to this, it also highlights the support for HDR10+ dynamic metadata mapping, as well as that screenshots in the native color space are already allowed.
The support for on-screen OSD interface to v output moduleo_dmabuf_wayland and added the wdec_vulkan module to use hardware accelerated video decoding using the Vulkan graphics API.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- The csp equalizer has the ability to specify floating point values.
- Added support for ARIB subtitles to demux_mkv
- The vo_gpu and vo_gpu_next output modules have shader and icc caching enabled by default.
- Higher version requirements for FFmpeg (requires at least version 4.4 to work),
- Support for the waf build system has been deprecated and will be deprecated in a future release. Meson is now used as the main build system.
- Added --force-render option
- Added option –demuxer-hysteresis-secs to save power with caching
- Fixed segmentation fault in draw_osd
- vo_dmabuf_wayland: correctly handle force window
- ao_pipewire: fix bug with pipewire 0.3.75 or later
If you want to know more about this new version of the player, you can consult the details in the following link.
How to install MPV in Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are interested in being able to install this new version of the player on their systems, They can do so by following the instructions we share below.
Since the update was recently released at this time, the player's official repository has not yet updated its packages. So to get the new version of MPV we will perform the compilation of the player on the system.
For this we must obtain the source code of the player, which we can obtain by opening a terminal and typing the following command:
wget https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/archive/refs/tags/v0.36.0.zip
After downloading the package, now you only have to unzip it and compile it from the same terminal with the following command:
unzip v0.36.0.zip cd mpv-0.36.0 cd mpv-0.36.0 ./bootstrap.py ./waf configure ./waf ./waf install
Finally for those who prefer to wait for the repository update or for those who want the player updates to be notified and installed, they can add the player repository to their system by typing the following in a terminal.
It is enough that aAdd the repository (PPA) MPV to your system with the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/mpv-tests
Now we proceed to update the repositories and install the application.
sudo apt update sudo apt install mpv
How to uninstall MPV from Ubuntu and derivatives?
If for whatever reason you want to, you want to uninstall MPV, can remove PPA easily, We just have to go to System Settings -> Software and updates -> Other software tab.
Y finally we remove the application with the command:
sudo apt remove mpv sudo apt autoremove