MPV is amazing!

General system Gaming, sound and video
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Just got this idea early in the morning. can you post the comparison screenshot of MPV after applying the script. Please ignore if i am asking too much.

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Very much agree with the Heading of this topic. Hence the post.

Been using mpv as my default video/audio player since I switched to Linux about 6-7 years ago.

Last few months, found another use !! mpv as an image viewer. Already a few great github repos out there, so nothing new. But I combined some HQ shaders/scalers ( again, probably not the first to do so.) But still, some might find this useful. Also, I’m looking to improve the image viewer. Especially testing out different shader/scaler combinations. Any help is much appreciated.

I call it mpvi ( not very original, I know :smile: ). I use to view slideshows so it is set up that way. Can easily be tweaked for other scenarios of course. Made a small shell script and put it in .local/bin and added to PATH.

#!/bin/bash

cd "$1"
mpv --fbo-format=rgba16f --gpu-api=opengl --term-status-msg= --sub-auto=no --audio-file-auto=no --mute=yes --prefetch-playlist=yes --no-osc --msg-level=all=status --no-config --glsl-shaders-append="~/.config/mpv/shaders/FSRCNNX_x2_16-0-4-1_enhance.glsl" --image-display-duration=5 --fullscreen --cscale=lanczos --correct-downscaling=yes --linear-downscaling=no --deband=no --shuffle --dscale=catmull_rom --input-conf=~/.config/mpv/input.conf *

Using KrigBilateral for cscale increases quality but not by much. It, however, takes a lot of processing power. Same is true for SSimDownscaler as dscaler. My hardware cannot handle it real-time. Most cpu+gpu made in the last 5 years could though I haven’t done extensive testing. SSimSuperRes or ravu for luma-upscaling also produces High Quality images but I personally prefer FSRCNNX.

mpv is nowhere as fast as feh, at least with these settings and with my limited hardware. But I very much prefer the uplift in image quality. In fact, the quality difference is quite staggering, at the cost of cpu + gpu power.

P.S I use the FSRCNNX enhance version instead of the normal one. Because I find it produces slightly better images for low-quality images (of course image quality is highly subjective). Also the directory for slideshow is network so playlist prefetch is used. Not sure whether it helps much though. Need a slower net connection to test.

Also, the input.conf has these 2 extra lines. First to the delete, second to copy the current file.

Ctrl+DEL run "/usr/bin/rm" "-v" "${path}"
Ctrl+s run "/usr/bin/cp" "-v" "${path}" "~/Pictures/"
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  • i suspect my MPV needs more configuring.
  • already using the script provided above. however, i feel, that i am not downloading many subtitles that vlsub plugin used to download.

can you provide some ready made mpv which requires less tinkering.

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MPV is amazing!

Especially in conjunction with this AUR package:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pipe-viewer-git

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Is there actually any real reason to use VLC anymore?

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Only if you havn’t deleted your windoze partition yet, it seems to me.
:laughing:

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It is the only player that will handle over 1000 songs through DLNA.
All my music is on my LAN server (NAS)

If anyone has any suggestions for a media player that supports DLNA besides Rythmbox, I am open to try them.

Pudge

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I was just gonna say this.

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The last time I tried Rythmbox (and it has been a long time ago) it didn’t handle over 1k of files.
Maybe I should try it again.

Pudge

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It perfectly reads (and plays) my iTunes library from the MacOS Media drive (27.000+ tunes).

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Thanks for checking. I will have to give rythmbox a try again.

Pudge

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Is that still being maintained?

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It is.

Many of it’s old “rough edges” have been shaved off.

:wink:

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very nice. thank you.

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I use smplayer it’s amazing

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Me to, great in Plasma too as it follows the system themes when the icon theme is set to classic

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VLC is crashing for me, (I used VLC for years on Windows and Linux, first time I am having such an issue) but I will stick to it if I can resolve the crash.
If you think MPV is awesome, try converting a large video with VLC to its H.265+MP4 preset and compare the file size and quality of the old video and new.

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There are other tools for such tasks, me thinks. (OT: Ever try handbrake?)

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Yep, tried it. Conversion took a few magnitues of order longer than VLC with less space saving. (for me)

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Perhaps, you would open another thread for this issue?