2024-05-06, 07:37 PM
MPV is a very versatile player, but it will attempt to software decode a lot of videos. Depending on the performance of the device is running on that may be fine. But on low performance devices, they may not have the power to CPU decode a video. Which is why Jellyfin relies on exoplayer due to it only doing hardware accelerated decoding. This is why Findroid defaults to exo and makes clear that MPV is experimental.