Bug#719654: ITP: mpv -- video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2

[Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : mpv
  Version         : 0.1.0
  Upstream Author : mpv team
* URL             : http://mpv.io/
* License         : GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2

mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide
variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

Changes from mplayer2 to mpv include:
 * Removal of lots of unneeded code to encourage developer activity
 * Better OSD rendering
 * Cleaned up terminal output
 * Improved OpenGL output
 * Encoding functionality (replacement for mencoder)
 * Wayland support
 * Support for playing URLs of popular streaming sites
 * Screenshot improvements
 * ...
See mpv(1) for more info regarding changes between MPlayer, mplayer2 and mpv.

The Debian packaging is maintained at [0].

Cheers

[0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/mpv.git;a=summary