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Jellyfin Desktop Client
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The Flatpak media player doesn't use MPV to play videos after update. #725

Open bender39 opened 2 months ago

bender39 commented 2 months ago

After the last update I noticed that a lot of media that used to play directly is transcoded similar to how it would if you are using the browser. After I clicked on playback info it turns out that the player is using the HTML player instead of MPV. This change only occurred after the last update from flathub.

This isn't the case with the media player version on the snap store, it correctly uses MPV.

iiPythonx commented 1 month ago

Chiming in here, for me the package from the AUR randomly started using the HTML video player rather then MPV (even though there hasn't been an update since I last installed it), resulting in transcoding even though direct play is available. Strangely, using the flatpak version actually uses MPV correctly for me.

Edit: setting sections.main.useSystemVideoCodecs to true fixed my problem.

sevenrats commented 1 month ago

@iwalton3 can we please just sunset all linux packages and only release deb and rpm. it would be trivial for some community user to package it downstream