14 DAY TRIAL // mpv, an open source media player that has been forked from mplayer2 and MPlayer and that works only from the command line, has been upgraded to version 0.7.3 and is ready for download.
Not all media players are created equal and that is pretty clear when you just take a look at mpv, which is basically an invisible player. I say invisible because it doesn't actually have any kind of interface. Everything is done from the terminal and the playback itself is done in a borderless window with just a couple of controls.
What's even more interesting about it is the fact that each new edition is actually quite consistent and all kinds of interesting changes are being made all the time. You might think that an application that has virtually no UI is not this complex, but you would be wrong.
The developers have explained that channel mapping has been improved, the 0% position is no longer displayed when the stream is infinite, the subtitle decoder has been refined, the default value for --screenshot-template is now listed, and the audio device disconnection no longer crashes the player.
You can download the source packages for mpv 0.7.3 for the Linux platform, and you can get the binaries for Windows and Mac OS X from the same source. Linux users will have to compile it from source, but that's pretty easy to do.
