Playing 10bit HEVC videos on Linux with NVIDIA and mpv

Posted on Fri 26 May 2017 in dev • Tagged with 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 …

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