MPV
MPV
Here you can find some tricks I use with the MPV player.
VAAPI
To enable the VAAPI (hardware acceleration) install a suitable package
and add to your $HOME/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
this options
Local configurations
The MPV can read a mpv.conf
file from the directory that contains the files you want to play. This option can be pretty useful when you want to remember the selected audio track or the playback speed just for files in this particular directory. You even can set the options for a particular file: for video.avi
put your stuff into vide.avi.conf
. To enable this feature just add this to your config file:
No display for audio
Sometimes I use MPV to play audio. Usually, MPV tries to display the album art in a separate window. But I prefer to keep this feature disabled with this option:
ytdl format
MPV can play video-streams using the YTDL. But by default the highest quality will be chosen. I prefer to limit the quality to 720p (or less) so I have this in my config: