MPV, the popular free open-source media player, released new 0.40.0 version after half an year of development. The new MPV release added NVIDIA RTX Video HDR support, which can be enabled by using –vf=d3d11vpp=nvidia-true-hdr option. And, HDR is now natively supported when using direct rendering (DRM) and dmabuf-wayland on Linux. The release added new clipboard […]
MPV 0.40 open-source media player is now available for download with native HDR support, Wayland color management protocol support, and more. Here’s what’s new!
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Audacious 4.4.1 open-source media player is now availablewith titlebar dimming for Winamp skins, improved control responsiveness, Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin, and more.
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MPV, the popular free open-source Linux media player, released version 0.39.0 last week. Here are the new features and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 users. The new MPV 0.39.0 introduced Video Super Resolution scaling support with Intel and NVIDIA RTX GPUs. It’s a technology that can use your GPU to upscale low resolution […]
MPV 0.39.0 open-source media player software is now available for download with support for NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR scaling via the D3D11VA filter, multi-touch support, and more.
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Celluloid, free open-source GTK4 GUI front-end for MPV, released new 0.27 version hours ago. Celluloid, formerly GNOME MPV, is a media player interacts with mpv via the client API, allowing access to mpv’s powerful playback capabilities, while providing a modern user interface that looks native in Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with GNOME Desktop. […]
GNOME, the default desktop for Ubuntu, expects to replace its core Totem video player with ‘Showtime’, which is still in development stage. Due to switch to GTK4, GNOME has replaced some of the core apps, including image viewer, text editor, camera app, and terminal emulator. And, Decibels is proposed as core app for playing audio […]
VLC 3.0.21 open-source media player is now available for download with a new AMD VQ Enhancer filter, Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Winamp, the iconic music player, reinvigorates nostalgia as it turns open source under FreeLLama, inviting global devs to evolve its legacy.
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Discover VLC Media Player’s best yet lesser-known tips and tricks that can immensely enhance your media-watching experience to the next level.
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MPV, the popular free open-source media player, announced new 0.38.0 release few days ago! The release improved –deinterlace with auto value, and –deinterlace-field-parity to automatically turn on deinterlacing. It can improve the overall clarity, sharpness of the video, by converting interlaced video (commonly found in analog television, VHS, Laserdisc, digital television (HDTV)) into a progressive […]
After more than a year of development, Kodi media player 21, code-name “Omega”, is finally released! Kodi 21 is a new major release. It’s now based on FFmpeg 6.0, that features Radiance HDR image support, VAAPI decoding and QSV decoding for 10/12bit 422, 10/12bit 444 HEVC and VP9, MediaCodec decoder, and various other exciting new […]
QMPlay2, the free open-source Qt media player, released version 24.03.16 few days ago. QMPlay2 is a Qt based media player that uses FFmpeg as backend for most video and audio codecs support. It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 music and chiptunes, as well as ALSA, PulseAudio or PipeWire sound servers. And, it has […]
Discover VLC Media Player’s best yet lesser-known tips and tricks that can immensely enhance your media-watching experience to the next level in this guide.
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Parole, the lightweight media player for XFCE Desktop, released version 4.18.1 few days ago. The new release updates the app icons with 32px, 64px, 96px sizes support, so it should have a cleaner look in system menus like App Finder, Whisker Menu. The extensions icons have been updated using newer Xfce palette, and semi-transparent […]
Discover two methods to reduce or decrease the VLC subtitle font size to just 5 px font size without any external tools (with practical examples).
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For VLC users who prefer installing the player via the classic .deb, here’s Ubuntu PPA update for the latest VLC 3.0.19. The VideoLAN website does NOT announced the release of v3.0.19 at the moment of writing. However, the source code has been rolled out. And, both Snap (in Ubuntu Software) and Flatpak packages have been […]
Xfce’s Parole media player announced the 4.18.0 released a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10 and their based systems. Parole is a modern simple video player based on the GStreamer. It’s an free opensource app fit well in the lightweight XFCE desktop, though also works in other […]
SMPlayer is a free, open-source media player with built-in codecs. Learn how to install SMPlayer on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish.
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VLC media player is an open-source, free portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC can play nearly all known multimedia files and DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols and can be extended and customized with multiple plugins. Here’s how to get it up and running […]
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