mplayer Articles & Reviews |
| A NVIDIA VDPAU Back-End For Intel's VA-API | Display Drivers | 2009-02-03 |
| Mplayer, FFmpeg Gain VA-API Support | Software | 2008-12-24 |
mplayer Linux & Open-Source News |
| MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred | Multimedia | 2025-12-21 |
| KDE Internet of Things Development Restarted For Home Assistant Integration | KDE | 2025-12-18 |
| Wayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025 | Wayland | 2025-03-31 |
| MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support | Multimedia | 2025-03-25 |
| MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes | Multimedia | 2024-04-17 |
| Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023 | Wayland | 2024-01-01 |
| MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode | Multimedia | 2023-07-23 |
| MPV Player 0.35.1 Released With Wayland & PipeWire Fixes | Multimedia | 2023-01-28 |
| MPV 0.35 Media Player Released With PipeWire Backend, Wayland DMA-BUF Support | Multimedia | 2022-11-12 |
| sdl12-compat 1.2.54 Pre-Release Gets More Games Running On This SDL2 Compatibility Layer | Linux Gaming | 2022-09-02 |
| IPFS Supported In FFmpeg 5.1, IPFS Devs Envision Support In More Open-Source Projects | Multimedia | 2022-08-10 |
| Microsoft Lands VA-API To Direct3D 12 H.264 Video Encode/Decode In Mesa | Microsoft | 2022-05-17 |
| MPlayer 1.5 Released To Advance This Open-Source Video Player | Multimedia | 2022-03-01 |
| MPV 0.34 Released For Popular Linux Media Player | Multimedia | 2021-11-01 |
| MPV Player 0.33 Brings Nearly A Year's Worth Of Improvements | Multimedia | 2020-11-22 |
| MPV Player 0.32 Released With RAR5 Support, Bash Completion | Multimedia | 2020-01-26 |
| Solus 4.1 Released With Application Changes, ESYNC Support For Linux Gaming | Operating Systems | 2020-01-25 |
| MPV 0.31 Video Player Adds Pseudo Client Side Decorations, Wayland Improvements | Multimedia | 2019-12-28 |
| Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Released To Ring In The New Year, Free Of 32-Bit Support | Operating Systems | 2019-12-27 |
| MPV Player 0.30 Released For This Advanced Open-Source Video Player | Multimedia | 2019-10-25 |
| Lubuntu Switching To VLC, KDE 5 LibreOffice Frontend | Operating Systems | 2018-09-13 |
| Libplacebo: Punting MPV's GPU Video/Image Rendering Into A Library | Multimedia | 2018-04-29 |
| The Next MPV Player Release Will Offer Much Better Vulkan Support | Multimedia | 2017-12-26 |
| MPV Player 0.28 Adds Initial Vulkan Support | Multimedia | 2017-12-25 |
| MPV Player 0.27 Brings Rendering Refactoring, OpenGL Improvements | Multimedia | 2017-09-13 |
| MPV 0.26 Media Player Released | Multimedia | 2017-07-18 |
| MPV 0.25 Media Player Released With Numerous Changes | Multimedia | 2017-04-24 |
| The Most Downloaded Benchmarks With The Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org | Phoronix Test Suite | 2017-02-18 |
| MPV 0.24 Media Player Adds Experimental Stream Recording, X11 Pseudo HiDPI Scaling | Multimedia | 2017-02-15 |
| MPV 0.21 Player Adds CUDA, Better Raspberry Pi Support | Multimedia | 2016-10-20 |
| MPlayer 1.3.0 Officially Released | Multimedia | 2016-02-16 |
| GNU Hurd Is Working On Sound Support, Still Lacks 64-bit & Good USB Support | GNU | 2016-01-31 |
| MPlayer 1.2.1 Released With Bug Fixes | Multimedia | 2016-01-24 |
| Emacs 25.1 Will Have X Widgets Support | GNU | 2016-01-22 |
| MPlayer 1.2 Released | Multimedia | 2015-10-03 |
| SMPlayer 15.9 Brings MPV Support, 3D Stereo Filter | Multimedia | 2015-09-30 |
| FFmpeg's Player Gets Inspired By MPlayer-Forked MPV Player | Multimedia | 2015-09-28 |
| MPV Video Player Has OpenGL Output Improvements, Fixes | Multimedia | 2015-09-23 |
| OpenMandriva Lx 3 Alpha: Adds UEFI Support, Defaults To LXQt | Operating Systems | 2015-04-24 |
| The Most Popular Linux Benchmark Results On OpenBenchmarking.org | Phoronix | 2015-02-28 |
| The Most Popular Open-Source Linux Benchmarks | Phoronix | 2015-02-26 |
| The Most Viewed Phoronix Articles & Linux News In 2014 | Phoronix | 2014-12-31 |
| Debian 8.0 Jessie Has Many Multimedia Improvements | Debian | 2014-10-23 |
| NVIDIA VDPAU Performance With The GeForce GTX 980 | NVIDIA | 2014-10-05 |
| MPlayer2-Forked MPV Player Releases v0.5 With A Lot Of Features | Multimedia | 2014-08-12 |
| NVIDIA Is Working Towards VDPAU H.265/HEVC Support | NVIDIA | 2014-07-29 |
| MPV 0.4.1 Brings Various Bug Fixes | Multimedia | 2014-07-13 |
| SMPlayer 14.3 Has Experimental Blu-Ray Disc Support | Multimedia | 2014-04-01 |
| The Most Popular Linux Stories So Far In 2014 | Phoronix | 2014-03-30 |
| Wayland Live CD Updated -- Pulls In New Code, Features | Wayland | 2014-03-22 |
| A TTM Graphics Performance Fix To Go Into Linux 3.14 | Linux Kernel | 2014-03-12 |
| Zenwalk 7.4 Updates Its Packages | Operating Systems | 2014-02-14 |
| Valve Continues Dominating & Kaveri Excited Linux Users | Valve | 2014-01-31 |
| Open-Source Blu-ray Decryption Library For Linux | Free Software | 2014-01-02 |
| MPlayer2 Gone Dark, MPV Is Still Happening | Multimedia | 2014-01-01 |
| New Wayland Live CD Has A Lot Of Features | Wayland | 2013-12-05 |
| Crystal HD Decodes New Linux Support Improvements | Hardware | 2013-11-30 |
| Cinnamon 2.0 Desktop Is Readied For Release | Free Software | 2013-10-09 |
| Open-Source Blu-Ray Library Advances (libbluray) | Free Software | 2013-10-04 |
| GLAMOR X-Video Support Was Made In One Day | X.Org | 2013-09-23 |
| NVIDIA's VDPAU Implemented Over OpenGL/VA-API | X.Org | 2013-08-06 |
| MPV, A New Fork Of MPlayer/MPlayer2 | Free Software | 2013-08-05 |
| The Video Acceleration State On Linux GPU Drivers | Hardware | 2013-02-05 |
| A Number Of New & Updated Linux Benchmarks | Phoronix | 2013-01-24 |
| FFmpeg 1.1 Brings New Support, Encoders/Decoders | Multimedia | 2013-01-07 |
| Enlightenment E17 Goes Into Beta | Free Software | 2012-12-07 |
| Trinity KDE 3.5 Desktop Fork Sees New Release | KDE | 2012-10-11 |
| Running GStreamer Over VA-API On Wayland | Wayland | 2012-10-09 |
| FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0 | Multimedia | 2012-09-28 |
| Wayland 1.0 Coming "In A Month Or Two" | Wayland | 2012-08-28 |
| MPlayer2's Latest Development Activities | Multimedia | 2012-08-26 |
| MPlayer2 Patches To Support Wayland | Wayland | 2012-08-24 |
| Using GPU Video Acceleration Under Linux | AMD | 2012-06-22 |
| MPlayer 1.1 Magically Surfaces With New Features | Multimedia | 2012-06-06 |
| Will H.264 Codec Support Come To Fedora? Nope. | Fedora | 2012-03-21 |
| Mageia 2 Reaches Beta State | Operating Systems | 2012-02-22 |
| MPlayer2 Is Still Being Actively Developed | Free Software | 2012-01-22 |
| First Release Of Open-Source Blu-Ray Library | Free Software | 2011-12-11 |
| New Gallium3D G3DVL Video Patches For Merging | Mesa | 2011-09-13 |
| The Nasty Battery Power Usage On Ubuntu 11.10 | Ubuntu | 2011-09-09 |
| The VP8 State Tracker That Was Born This Summer | Mesa | 2011-08-28 |
| MPlayer2 Is Still Alive & Kicking | Multimedia | 2011-08-12 |
| Major Open-Source Code Drop For XvBA, PowerVR Coming | Free Software | 2011-06-14 |
| German RadeonHD Hacker To Start R600 Gallium3D VDPAU | Radeon | 2011-04-26 |
| DirectX Video Acceleration For MPlayer | Free Software | 2011-04-23 |
| Ubuntu Expels One Of Its Developers | Ubuntu | 2011-04-08 |
| Legal Threats Against MPlayer, Server To Disappear | Multimedia | 2011-04-08 |
| VP8 Over VDPAU In Gallium3D Is Emeric's Target | Mesa | 2011-03-29 |
| Is MPlayer2 A Viable Fork Of MPlayer? | Multimedia | 2011-03-24 |
| Portable C Compiler Is Building FreeBSD, Nearing v1.0 | Free Software | 2011-01-30 |
| MPlayer Is Getting Closer To Version 1.0 Too | Multimedia | 2011-01-29 |
| There May Finally Be Better ATI Linux Video Playback | AMD | 2011-01-05 |
| Broadcom Crystal HD Support For MPlayer, FFmpeg | Multimedia | 2011-01-01 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 3.0 "Iveland" Alpha 3 | Phoronix | 2010-12-02 |
| Adobe's Flash Video Acceleration On Linux Uses VDPAU | Proprietary Software | 2010-12-01 |
| Holy Crap! You Can Use XvMC With ATI Gallium3D! | AMD | 2010-10-25 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 2.8 "Torsken" Goes To Alpha | Phoronix | 2010-06-30 |
| There's A Gallium3D State Tracker For VDPAU | Mesa | 2010-06-28 |
| MPlayer 1.0 RC3 Finally Arrives | Multimedia | 2010-05-30 |
| MythTV 0.23 Released; MythTV 0.24 Plans Documented | Multimedia | 2010-05-11 |
| The x264 Project Bangs Out A Blu-Ray Encoder | Free Software | 2010-04-25 |
| XBMC Gets Working Intel VA-API Support | Multimedia | 2010-04-06 |
| H.264 VA-API Support For Intel Clarkdale/Arrandale | Intel | 2010-03-27 |
| Adobe Rants Over Linux Video Acceleration APIs | Proprietary Software | 2010-01-26 |
| Enna Comes About As An Alternative To XBMC | Multimedia | 2010-01-03 |
| Xine-lib Update Improves A Bit For Blu-ray | Free Software | 2009-12-01 |
| This Week: Fedora 13, Gallium3D, Reiser4 | Phoronix | 2009-11-15 |
| FFmpeg Gains VDPAU MPEG-4 ASP Acceleration | Multimedia | 2009-11-13 |
| MPlayer Now Supports Most HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Codecs | Multimedia | 2009-11-13 |
| Adobe Flash Player 10.1 To Support VDPAU? | Proprietary Software | 2009-10-09 |
| H.264 VA-API GPU Video Acceleration For Flash | Proprietary Software | 2009-09-23 |
| Will AMD's XvBA Beat Out NVIDIA's VDPAU? | AMD | 2009-07-06 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 2.0 Enters Beta | Phoronix | 2009-06-14 |
| Intel Poulsbo Driver Running On Fedora | Intel | 2009-05-14 |
| XBMC Receives Mainline Support For VDPAU | Multimedia | 2009-03-23 |
| Blu-ray Focus Grows Within FFmpeg Project | Multimedia | 2009-03-20 |
| FFmpeg Experiences A New Release, Finally! | Multimedia | 2009-03-09 |
| Forthcoming VDR Release To Support VDPAU | NVIDIA | 2009-03-09 |
| XBMC Media Player Has Support For NVIDIA VDPAU | Multimedia | 2009-03-04 |
| Catalyst 9.2 Released, Still Fails To Deliver XvBA | AMD | 2009-02-20 |
| Intel Considering VDPAU Support For X.Org Driver | Intel | 2009-02-08 |
| FFmpeg Gets Mainline VDPAU Support | Multimedia | 2009-01-05 |
| VLC Media Player To Receive VDPAU Support | NVIDIA | 2008-12-23 |
| FFmpeg Gets Support For RealVideo 3.0 | Multimedia | 2008-12-21 |
| Xine Picks Up Support For NVIDIA's VDPAU | NVIDIA | 2008-12-17 |
| FFmpeg Picks Up Support For New Formats | Multimedia | 2008-12-04 |
| MythTV Adds Support For NVIDIA VDPAU | Multimedia | 2008-11-29 |
| Yes, Catalyst 8.10 Is Out There | AMD | 2008-10-16 |
| UVD Is Enabled For Linux In Catalyst 8.10 | AMD | 2008-10-15 |
| AMD's UVD2 & XvMC For Linux? | AMD | 2008-09-04 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 1.0.4 Released | Phoronix | 2008-07-18 |
| RealNetworks Updates Helix, RealPlayer | Hardware | 2008-04-17 |
| MPlayer 1.0 Release Candidate 2 | Multimedia | 2007-10-11 |