Celluloid video player premiered a new release over the weekend, with the update refining the app's player controls in both windowed and full screen mode - it looks great!
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/celluloid-0-28-adds-lua-module-support-refreshes-ui
#Linux Weekly Roundup for March 30th, 2025: Linux kernel 6.14, #Ubuntu 25.04 beta, #MPV 0.40, #GIMP 3.0.2, #LibreOffice 25.2.2, #GNU Linux-libre 6.14 kernel, #KaOS 2025.03, #AerynOS 2025.03, Zorin OS 17.3, #CachyOS March 2025 update, #Nitrux 3.9.1, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-30th-2025
FOSS NEWS
Proton Drive and Docs get support for collaboration with users without Proton account:
https://proton.me/blog/improve-productivity-collaboration-proton-drive
Organic Maps migrates repos to their own Forgejo instance, because they got blocked by GitHub, because a dev was temporarily geolocated in a US-sanctioned region:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/organic-maps-migrates-to-forgejo-due-to-github-account-blocked-by-microsoft/
(Why does GitHub have to know the geolocation of their users in the first place? But at least the Organic Maps project has the capacity to self-host, they successfully took control into their own hands.)
ReactOS 0.4.15 released with kernel improvements, improved hardware support, support for additional audio formats, multiple output channels etc:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/reactos-the-open-source-windows-compatible-os-just-shipped-its-biggest-release-to-date/
MPV 0.40 released with native HDR support on Linux, Wayland color management protocol support, new script for video alignment and zooming, new selection menu when right-clicking common buttons etc:
https://9to5linux.com/mpv-0-40-open-source-video-player-released-with-native-hdr-support-on-linux
Shotcut 25.03 released with ‘Text style’ preset to the ‘Generate Text on Timeline’ function in Subtitles, ‘Copy Current’ and ‘Copy All’ options to Filters, vertical and horizontal parameters to the No Sync video filter, a ‘Toggle Filter Overlay’ option to the Player menu etc:
https://9to5linux.com/shotcut-25-03-open-source-video-editor-released-with-various-new-features
Ente Photos v1 released with encrypted data stored in three separate clouds, in three different locations; on-device search capabilities for people and objects in photos, ability to automatically highlight past special moments and important people, with a widget option to relive these memories directly from the home screen etc:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/ente-has-finally-released-the-v1-of-its-end-to-end-encrypted-photo-video-cloud-storage-app/
XZ Utils 5.8 released with performance boost for the liblzma compression library; new --no-sync option; xz, xzdec, and lzmainfo components updated to replace non-printable characters with question marks when printing messages (to prevent malicious filenames from sending escape sequences to a terminal) etc:
https://9to5linux.com/xz-utils-5-8-introduces-performance-improvements-in-the-lzma-lzma2-decoder
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Rilasciato #MPV 0.40: Il lettore multimediale open source con supporto #HDR nativo e miglioramenti all’interfaccia
#UnoLinux #opensurce #ffmpeg #codec #video #player #multimedia #film
Donc, #MPV 0.40 est sorti, et je vois qu’ils ont changé la taille de la police de l’OSD (alors qu’elle était très bien comme elle était)…
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/8c3a7da6196c5de401463b71396aa6e0e1f6b924
Bon, si vous voulez retrouver les anciennes tailles, vous devrez ajouter ces lignes dans votre fichier mpv.conf (testé, ça marche et c’est a priori future-proof) :
MPV 0.40 media player is out now with native HDR support, improved autocompletion, enhanced OSC, and more.
https://linuxiac.com/mpv-0-40-media-player-brings-native-hdr/
#MPV 0.40 Open-Source Video Player Released with Native HDR Support on #Linux and Many Other Changes https://9to5linux.com/mpv-0-40-open-source-video-player-released-with-native-hdr-support-on-linux
Erro "Can Not Open External File" ao Tentar Abrir Legendas Com mpv
So there are these guys who install #Arch and use #vim or #emacs and they think they are powerful #Unix gods. One such being is me myself.
I never had to reboot my computer or close the terminal to quit #neovim
But last night, I was using my #FreeBSD machine. I thought I watch a movie so I installed #mpv and upon starting it, I could not quit. The solution was powering off and rebooting my machine. Devastating, isn't it?
So dear Arch users, or #Gentoo users who think they are really geeky geeks and very brave. Give #BSDs a try :)
A first experiment in #gstreamer is quite promising - on the x220 it already makes Showtime (the future Gnome default player) outperform #mpv with 4k@30fps AV1 or VP9 playback - my hope is to get 4k@60fps work smoothly (SDR - bonus for HDR10, but the required shaders might end up being too heavy).
For those interested, you can find the code at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/8540
Buenas
Me gustaría compartir este vídeo
https://video.hardlimit.com/w/tuPa9yxZzc2hJBF7xaDucx
Por favor veanlo compartan y denle amor
#archlinux #mpv #mpd #sway #wayland #shell #gnu_linux #Linux #iamb
#grayjay is confusing as hell. Especially #peertube integration. I can't figure out how to import those subscriptions but I managed to import #youtube stuff from #newpipe on #android.
Also the import button doesn't work for me on #linux. With #freetube having hella errors right now, this is annoying. At least good 'ol #mpv works.
All I need is a thing that will grab video URLs from lists of channels across platforms and open them in MPV...
4. Thanks to #libcamera enablement work, udmabuf is available to users by default in many distros now and #systemd 257 sets an uaccess tag. It's not yet available in #flatpak without device=all, though.
5. The main missing DRM formats are three-plane >= 10 bit ones that are compatible with what sw-decoders produce.
6. AFAICS the approach should work equally well for clients like #mpv, #firefox and #chromium.
Found a way to rotate video in #mpv:
~ $ cat .config/mpv/input.conf
r cycle_values video-rotate 90 180 270 0
Now just hit "r" when viewing a video to have it rotate by 90 degrees clockwise.
Great for viewing vertical video on a laptop.
* @rl_dane dodges various rotten tomatoes being thrown in his direction
Figured out how to use yt-dlp with MPlayer, if for some reason you want such a thing
I am always curious when a program is able to do something that seems impossible (like extracting Youtube videos from a URL). I.e., MPV somehow uses yt-dlp flawlessly
Next semi-unrelated step, I might try to move my Youtube subscriptions from Newsboat over to Newsticker (Emacs)
It looks like streaming #YouTube videos in #Platypush is currently broken because of new checks put in place by #Google.
#mpv with --ytdl is also affected, and so are static downloads through the yt-dlp command of course.
It seems that providing an API token to the yt-dlp configuration may mitigate the issue, but of course you lose anonimity.
I’ll test things with an auth token and document the new process this week.
does anyone know how to listen to an ALSA input device with #mpv at all?
