mpv Releases Version 0.20.0 with Bugfixes and Enhancements

mpv – the best, free and open source media player for Linux systems, recently releases version 0.20.0 which is a maintenance release. This release contains lots of bug fixes and minor enhancements.

mpv version 0.20.0 contains below minor enhancements and bug fixes.

Table of Contents

Added Features

aspect: add –video-unscaled=downscale-big
player: add –image-display-duration option to control duration of image display (#3425)
vo_opengl: angle: new flag (dcomposition) to control DirectComposition

Fix and Enhancements

af_lavrresample: fix error if resampler could not be recreated
audio: avoid missed wakeups with ab-loops
audio: do not apply –audio-channels if spdif passthrough is in use (#3445)
cache: don’t use a backbuffer if the cache is as large as the file
command: prevent O(n^2) behaviour for playlist property
demux: close underlying stream if it’s fully read anyway (#3456)
demux: fix undefined behavior with ogg metadata update (#3451)
player: make looping slightly more seamless
player: refresh very low framerate video on filter changes (#3435)
stream_memory: disable stream cache
vf_rotate: allow arbitrary rotation (#3434)
vo: be more trusting to estimated display FPS (#3433)
w32_common: use hooks to detect parent window resize
x11: work around mutter fullscreen issue (#2072)

Source: github version 0.20.0 changelog

Installation

To install mpv in Ubuntu via PPA, run below commands from terminal and give root password when asked for.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:~mc3man/mpv-tests
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mpv

As of writing this article, the above PPA doesn’t have the updated 0.20.0 yet. You can still go ahead and install the earlier version and once the PPA is updated, you can update to version 0.20.0.

To play a file using mpv after installation, simply right cick and choose “Open with -> mpv Media Player”.