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MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support


MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2

With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features. MPV 0.40 introduces native support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) video content when using DRM direct rendering or DMA-BUF Wayland on Linux. MPV 0.40 has support for the wp-color-management-v1 protocol that has come together nicely this year in getting the Wayland-powered Linux desktop finally ready for HDR use.

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