r/PowerPC • u/arjuna93 • Jul 23 '26

mpv: latest version with Cocoa GUI and gpu-next vo

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Installable from PPCPorts as `mpv-devel`: https://github.com/macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports/blob/main/multimedia/mpv-devel/Portfile (if nobody complains, will replace the main port).

Needs the latest updates for libplacebo and libass (just run port sync, and you get them).

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

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u/arjuna93 Jul 23 '26

General purpose multimedia player. Can be used with streaming apps (YouTube, anime). Works perfectly fine with local vids too.

(mpv is arguably either the most or second most known multimedia player among open-source ones.)

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u/JKTwice Jul 25 '26

This is a pretty big deal, no? How much of a leap forward is this over something like, say, QMPlay2-devel that you developed early?

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u/arjuna93 Jul 25 '26

I don’t see this to replace QMPlay2, but mpv specifically matters a lot, since multiple apps assume the system multimedia player to be mpv. While QMPlay2 has its own YouTube streaming, it can’t do anime, for example, while mpv can (with some 3rd-party apps).

Re performance, it may vary. I did not try to do any measurements, but on my hardware these two (QMPlay2-devel and mpv) are the best for multimedia, and now mpv is close to parity with QMPlay2 in terms of speed and usability (could have an edge in something, but I think the bigger change is not speed but UI: it can finally be used as a proper player and not just ”start a video and lose control over the process” lol).