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   On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:32:34 +0000, Pancho wrote:   
   >   
   > On 26/01/2024 01:18, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:   
   >   
   >> Suppose the Kodi GUI is a little obese? Then try a different   
   >> player. Install mpv for example. It doesn't even has a GUI. But front   
   >> ends exists if it does the job.   
   >   
   > mpv standardly does come with a GUI, it is configurable, but I had   
   > very little to do to set it up on my rPi5.   
      
   I doubt. Just logged in with a user I never used mpv with. At first start   
   it just created an empty ~.config/mpv/ but no GUI showed.   
      
      
   I know some "players" use mpv as *backend*. Thus you could   
   consider these as simply a frontend to mpv.   
      
   > edit ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf   
   > add   
   > ---   
   > vo=gpu   
   > hwdec=drm-copy   
   > ---   
   >   
   > the hwdec is the important bit, I'm not sure vo=gpu is needed, or if   
   > it is legacy from another machine.   
      
   "vo" (video output) is the render method. This example says to use the   
   GPU as render hardware. Instead of "gpu" you could for example use "drm"   
   and watch videos on a TTY (no need to start X).   
      
   From :   
      
   |    --hwdec= Specify the   
   |    hardware video decoding API that should be used if possible. Whether   
   |    hardware decoding is actually done depends on the video codec. If   
   |    hardware decoding is not possible, mpv will fall back on software   
   |    decoding.   
      
   None has to do with a GUI. I stand with my claim, mpv does not come with   
   a GUI. Thus it's especially well suited for older systems.   
   --   
   Andreas   
      
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