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Playing 10bit HEVC videos on Linux with NVIDIA and mpv

Fri 26 May 2017 Nils Amiet

linux hevc video

For this to work you will need an NVIDIA GPU.

Get the mpv-build scripts, tune the mpv and ffmpeg options and build:

#!/bin/sh

mkdir -p ~/git
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build.git
cd mpv-build

# write mpv_options file
cat << EOF > mpv_options
--enable-cuda-hwaccel
EOF

# write ffmpeg_options file …

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