Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
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HN comment orderA fantastic mediaplayer, quite minimalistic and performant; it does what it's supposed to do! Also has a fantastic commit where the author rants about locales: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... worth a read for some chuckles.
My favorite feature is "video-sync=display-resample". This gives you perfect frame pacing by synchronizing the video to vertical refresh and resampling the audio to match. If you set your refresh rate to an integer multiple of the frame rate, every frame will be shown for the exact same time. The audio resampling compensates for very small discrepancies between speeds by imperceptibly changing the audio speed. It's similar to the proprietary DirectShow filter "ReClock", but AFAIK ReClock does not dynamically…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1601
- Total comments
- 735
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-16 | Mpv video player, based on MPlayer and mplayer2 | albertzeyer | 5 | 0 |
| 2014-07-05 | MPV: A free, open source, cross-platform media player | ggreer | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-04-27 | Mpv: a free, open source, and cross-platform media player | blfr | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-04-24 | Mpv: A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player | bobbiechen | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-04-07 | Mpv: A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player | jestinjoy1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-07-18 | Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media playerFirst breakout | peter_d_sherman | 474 | 176 |
| 2024-08-17 | Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media playerHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | Bluestein | 1113 | 559 |