14 DAY TRIAL // FFmpeg's Ganesh Ajjanagadde has announced that the next release of the open-source and cross-platform FFmpeg multimedia framework will include an improved FFplay media player component.
According to Mr. Ajjanagadde, the FFMpeg developers managed to add support for interactive volume control in FFplay, which has been inspired by the well-known MPlayer- and mplayer2-based MPV open-source and cross-platform video player software.
"This is a feature heavily inspired by the mpv player. At the moment, methods for adjusting volume in ffplay are rather clumsy: either one needs to set it system-wide, or one needs to set it via the volume filter," says Ganesh Ajjanagadde.
The patch for implementing support for interactive volume control in FFmpeg's FFplay multimedia player was added this past weekend, on September 27, and it introduced keyboard shortcuts that are identical to the ones seen in MPV.
The key bindings can be used by default for muting, unmuting, increasing, and decreasing the volume interactively. Thanks to this new implementation, there's no need for the introduction of external dependencies into FFplay.
The FFmpeg developers are already discussing the possibility to add mouse button bindings for the interactive volume control feature of FFplay, as the MPV player already has it. We will keep you guys updated as soon as we receive further details. In the mean time, you can download FFmpeg 2.8 right now from Softpedia.