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So, FFmpeg/Libav requires us to figure out video timestamps ourselves (see last 10 commits or so), but the methods it provides for this aren't even sufficient. In particular, everything that uses AVI-style DTS (avi, vfw-muxed mkv, possibly mpeg4-in-ogm) with a codec that has an internal frame delay is broken. In this case, libavcodec will shift the packet- to-image correspondence by the codec delay, meaning that with a delay=1, the first AVFrame.pkt_dts is not 0, but that of the second packet. All timestamps will appear shifted. The start time (e.g. the time displayed when doing "mpv file.avi --pause") will not be exactly 0. (According to Libav developers, this is how it's supposed to work; just that the first DTS values are normally negative with formats that use DTS "properly". Who cares if it doesn't work at all with very common video formats? There's no indication that they'll fix this soon, either. An elegant workaround is missing too.) Add a hack to re-enable the old PTS code for AVI and vfw-muxed MKV. Since these timestamps are not reorderd, we wouldn't need to sort them, but it's less code this way (and possibly more robust, should a demuxer unexpectedly output PTS). The original intention of all the timestamp changes recently was actually to get rid of demuxer-specific hacks and the old timestamp sorting code, but it looks like this didn't work out. Yet another case where trying to replace native MPlayer functionality with FFmpeg/Libav led to disadvantages and bugs. (Note that the old PTS sorting code doesn't and can't handle frame dropping correctly, though.) Bug reports: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/3178 https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600
mpv
Overview
mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
If you are wondering what's different from mplayer2 and MPlayer you can read more about the changes.
Compilation
Compiling with full features requires development files for several external libraries. Below is a list of some important requirements.
The mpv build system uses waf but we don't store it in your source tree. The script './bootstrap.py' will download the latest version of waf that was tested with the build system.
For a list of the available build options use ./waf configure --help. If
you think you have support for some feature installed but configure fails to
detect it, the file build/config.log may contain information about the
reasons for the failure.
To build the software you can use ./waf build: the result of the compilation
will be located in build/mpv. You can use ./waf install to install mpv
to the prefix after it is compiled.
NOTE: Using the old build system (with ./old-configure) should still work,
but will be removed in a future version of mpv.
Essential dependencies (incomplete list):
- gcc or clang
- X development headers (xlib, X extensions, libvdpau, libGL, libXv, ...)
- Audio output development headers (libasound, pulseaudio)
- fribidi, freetype, fontconfig development headers (for libass)
- libass
- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libpostproc)
- libjpeg
- libquvi if you want to play Youtube videos directly
- libx264/libmp3lame/libfdk-aac if you want to use encoding (has to be explicitly enabled when compiling ffmpeg)
Most of the above libraries are available in suitable versions on normal Linux distributions. However FFmpeg is an exception (distro versions may be too old to work at all or work well). For that reason you may want to use the separately available build wrapper (mpv-build) that first compiles FFmpeg libraries and libass, and then compiles the player statically linked against those.
If you are running Mac OSX and using homebrew we provide homebrew-mpv, an up to date formula that compiles mpv with sensible dependencies and defaults for OSX.
FFmpeg vs. Libav
Generally, mpv should work with the latest release as well as the git version of both FFmpeg and Libav. But FFmpeg is preferred, and some mpv features work with FFmpeg only. See the wiki article about the issue.
Bug reports
Please use the issue tracker provided by GitHub to send us bug reports or feature requests.
Contributing
For small changes you can just send us pull requests through GitHub. For bigger changes come and talk to us on IRC before you start working on them. It will make code review easier for both parties later on.
Contacts
These forms of contact are meant to ask questions about mpv usage, give feedback on mpv and discuss it's development.
If possible, please avoid posting bugs here and use the issue tracker instead.
- Users IRC Channel:
#mpv-playeronirc.freenode.net - Users Mailing List:
mpv-users@googlegroups.com(Archive / Subscribe). - Devel Mailing List:
mpv-devel@googlegroups.com(Archive / Subscribe)
To contact the mpv team in private write to mpv-team@googlegroups.com.