{"id":362837,"date":"2025-12-22T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362837\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:41:09","slug":"mpv-0-41-released-with-wayland-improvements-vulkan-hardware-decoding-preferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362837\/","title":{"rendered":"MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MULTIMEDIA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/multimedia.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nMPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer\/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs.<\/p>\n<p>On the Vulkan side, MPV 0.41 now prefers Vulkan Video hardware decoding where available instead of other video APIs. Other alternatives like VA-API remain available for scenarios where Vulkan Video driver or GPU hardware support isn&#8217;t available for it.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>MPV 0.41 also now uses libplacebo&#8217;s &#8220;gpu-next&#8221; by default rather than the &#8220;gpu&#8221; target. With gpu-next there is improved color management support that is also important as MPV 0.41 now supports Wayland&#8217;s color management functionality.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766367669_613_image\" alt=\"MPV\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On the Wayland side, in addition to color representation protocol &#8220;wp-color-representation-v1&#8221; support for HDR there is also now tablet input support too. MPV 0.41 also adds clipboard writing support for Wayland.<\/p>\n<p>MPV 0.41 also makes use now of the ambient light sensor API under Linux exposed by sysfs with drivers like the AMDGPU code on modern Ryzen laptops.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Plus fixes and other enhancements for this all-around nice update to the MPV video player. MPV 0.41 can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mpv-player\/mpv\/releases\/tag\/v0.41.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer\/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-362837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}