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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...