Now available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows

May 19, 2015 23:20 GMT  ·  By

The extremely active development team of the open-source and cross-platform MPV movie player software based on the popular MPlayer multimedia playback application reached version 0.9.2 on May 19.

According to the changelog, MPV 0.9.2 brings some significant changes, such as improvements to the channel fallback, just in case there's no native support for a certain channel layout in the default audio device, autoloading of subtitles in the .sup file format, and query support for ICC (International Color Consortium) profiles in X11.

Dummy padding channels are now supported by both ALSA and Core Audio plugins, providing better support for hardware decoders that offer certain channel counts. For example, hardware decoders that only support 7.1 channels should now support 5.1 audio streams as well.

Among other changes, we can mention that the checking of lua52.pc has been added to the Lua check code, in order to support Arch Linux operating systems, unaligned videos are now automatically rejected by the software instead of outputting a corrupted video stream, and there's Pan & Scan support for Linux OSes.

Several bugs have been removed from the Linux and OS X versions

In addition to the changes listed above, MPV 0.9.2 fixes numerous bugs that have been discovered since the previous release of the software. Among these, we can mention fixes for various vo_rpi and vo_drm issues under Linux systems, a couple of full-screen problems with several Linux window managers, and better framedrop behavior when attempting to play video stream that have higher framerates than the display.

The Mac OS X version of MPV has received some attention as well in this update. For example, various bugs in the Core Audio sound server support have been removed, a possible crash on exit when using Cocoa, Apple's native object-oriented API, has been patched, several Cocoa build issues related to the libmpv library and the cplayer executable have been resolved, and the OSD (On-screen Display) will no longer be displayed on application startup.

Last but not least, MPV no longer reports "Connection lost!" in the console log when attempting to play a directory, options changed during runtime are now applied to the ClientAPI, and RGBA16 has been added as default fbo-format for vo_opengl, in order to circumvent rounding errors that occurred when non-default cscale was used. Download MPV 0.9.2 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows right now from Softpedia.

MPV 0.9.2 Changelog