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Releases can be found on the [release list][releases].
+## System requirements
+
+- A not too ancient Linux, or Windows Vista or later, or OSX 10.8 or later.
+- A somewhat capable CPU. Hardware decoding might sometimes help if the CPU
+ is too slow to decode video realtime, but must be explicitly enabled with
+ the `--hwdec` option. On Windows, a CPU with SSE4 instruction set is required
+ to get decent hardware decoding performance.
+- A not too crappy GPU. mpv is not intended to be used with bad GPUs. There are
+ many caveats with drivers or system compositors causing tearing, stutter,
+ etc. On Windows, you might want to make sure the graphics drivers are
+ current, especially OpenGL. In some cases, ancient fallback video output
+ methods can help (such as `--vo=xv` on Linux), but this use is not
+ recommended or supported.
+
+
## Downloads
@@ -103,6 +118,7 @@ OSX.
If you want to build a Windows binary, you either have to use MSYS2 and MinGW,
or cross-compile from Linux with MinGW. See [Windows compilation][windows_compilation].
+
## FFmpeg vs. Libav