Questions tagged [mpv]
mpv is a media player
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How does hardware accelaration (e.g. VA-API) work internally so that it does not work with ffmpeg filters but ok with icc-profiles?
Recently I've used mpv with set icc-profile and it worked with hwdec=auto-safe setting. Then I've tried to change colors via set vf colorchannelmixer but got an error "Impossible to convert ...
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Play MPV stream via a Shortcut?
I am using MPV player from the Ubuntu 22 terminal command line, for example: > mpv rtsp://10.11.12.13:554/camera/default.h264 where 10.11.12.13 is my machine's IP. I wanted to create a shortcut ...
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Artifacts when MPV plays same file located on another disk
I'm facing a peculiar issue. I've copied media file to USB flash (using Linux Mint). Now when this files is played by mpv at one point it freezes for some time displaying what looks like green foreign ...
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Starting application with I/O redirection via *.desktop file
I start music or video with right click and "open with" in Thunar (Xfce). For every entry, there is a *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications. I want to ...
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How do you configure a V4L2 device when V4L2 software cannot read a V4L2 stream directly, because they give IO errors?
I'm trying to capture video from an Elikliv UVC microscope in Linux. We can do direct frame-by-frame capture using this command: v4l2-ctl --device /dev/video0 --stream-mmap --stream-to=stream.mjpg ......
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mpv fails to play youtube videos
I've been using mpv for a while, but now whenever I try to play a youtube video the following output shows up: [ffmpeg] https: HTTP error 403 Forbidden Failed to open https://rr5. . . EDL: Could not ...
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ksh88 string substitution in alias | mpv streaming [duplicate]
tl;dr how can I substitute a string (i.e. a youtube/streaming url) in an alias such as alias mpvyt='yt-dlp <URL> -o - | mpv - ' ? I live in a mezzanine studio using a M1 macbook for a ...
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How to watch video while still downloading including audio?
If I download a video using youtube-downloader I can watch the part file while downloading (in my case using mpv). Suppose I cannot or don't want to select a format containing both video and audio ...
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