MPV 0.8.3 is now available for Linux, Mac, and Windows

Mar 18, 2015 06:08 GMT  ·  By

MPV, one of the trendiest video playback applications today, sees a new maintenance release that brings some important enhancements and repairs nasty issues discovered in the previous releases of the software. The third point release of MPV also updates the documentation and cleans up the source code.

According to the release notes, MPV 0.8.3 introduces new DVB-S2 support code using the S2API LinuxDVB API, addresses the 8-channel output on JACK Audio Connection Kit, fixes the --mf-fps argument on JPEG files, repairs anamorphic scaling issues, and fixes a vo_xv:no-colorkey crash that occurred when using the Overlay adapter.

Additionally, several bugs on the Mac OS X platform have been squashed, including a segmentation fault that occurred when exiting a video stream, a mouse cursor auto-hiding issue that occurred when the player was in full-screen mode, as well as that extremely annoying mouse cursor hiding issue when over the Launchpad or Dock.

VAAPI post-processing will now correctly deinterlace video streams

The behavior of mpv_opengl_cb_render's viewport parameter has been finally clarified in the Client API, various documentation has been updated and fixed, the video equalizer has been modified to work correctly with various VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) drivers, and the VAAPI post-processing functionality will now correctly deinterlace video streams.

Last but not least, the OSD (On-Screen Display) will no longer disappear when the mozplugger is clicked, MPV’s new DVB-S2 support can now be used under FreeBSD operating systems, decoding of seekable MKV (Matroska) files that were played from unseekable network streams has been repaired.

Stream cache is now used for smb:// video streams, and the mouse cursor will no longer be hidden when it’s hovering the window menu on Microsoft Windows OSes. As usual, you can download MPV 0.8.3 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems right now from Softpedia.