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MPV, the popular command line media player, released new 0.42 version today after nearly a year of development.<\/p>\n
The new version of this free open-source player added context menu support, improved DVD playback, introduced FRC filter for AMD GPU, and fixed various issues.<\/p>\n
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MPV 0.42.0 now supports DVD audio playback, and direct playback of In addition to DVD video\/audio playback, it can also navigate DVD and Blu-ray disc menus<\/b>, including both traditional Blu-ray menus (HDMV) and Java-based menus (BD-J).<\/p>\n For Linux, MPV now integrates better with Wayland desktop session.<\/b><\/p>\n The Vulkan rendering backend for Wayland now supports handling the display’s color bit depth. OpenGL rendering backend can now communicate its preferred color space to the Wayland compositor.<\/p>\n It improves HDR color-management support on Wayland, by adding BT.2100 color-space mapping, communicating display luminance information to the compositor, and, allowing As well, it adds the scRGB color space support, and prioritizes its DMA-BUF Wayland video output backend when selecting a video output automatically.<\/p>\n MPV 0.42.0 now supports right-click context menu<\/b>. Meaning, you can now right-click on the video player to get a pop-up menu, to control the playback, video\/audio output, subtitles, and various other options.<\/p>\n The menu items are configurable through the And for AMD GPUs, it now supports Frame Rate Conversion filter<\/b> (through Other changes include:<\/p>\n For more about MPV 0.42.0, see the release note<\/a> in Github.<\/p>\n MPV provides official packages for Windows and macOS, but based on the lastest commit. Along with community packages, they are available in mpv website via the link below:<\/p>\n.iso<\/code> images of DVD-Video, DVD-Audio and Blu-ray discs.<\/p>\ngpu-next<\/code> to set output color properties directly through the Wayland protocol.<\/p>\nmenu.conf<\/code> file under ~\/.config\/mpv<\/code> (or other locations for Windows and mac). And, here’s an example<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mpv-contextmenu-700x438.webp\")
<\/p>\n--vf=amf_frc<\/code>). It improves the video playback experience by using your GPU hardware to increase the video frame rate (for example convert 30 fps video content to 60fps or higher).<\/p>\n\n
How to Install MPV 0.42.0:<\/h3>\n