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SwitchWave
by averne

SwitchWave icon
    Version1.0.1
    Zip size13,226 KiB
    LicenseGPLv3
    Updated22/03/2025
    Downloads588
    MD5343b60cb9e487fc752025fff53ceccb8

App Details

A hardware-accelerated media player for the Nintendo Switch, built on mpv and FFmpeg. Features:

Custom hardware acceleration backend for FFmpeg, with dynamic frequency scaling. The following codecs can be decoded:

MPEG1/2/4

VC1

H.264/AVC (10+ bit not supported by hardware)

H.265/HEVC (12+ bit not supported by hardware)

VP8

VP9 (10+ bit not supported by hardware)

Custom graphics backend for mpv using deko3d, supporting:

Playback at 4k60fps

Direct rendering (faster software decoding)

Custom post-processing shaders

Custom audio backend for mpv using native Nintendo APIs, supporting layouts up to 5.1 surround

Network playback through Samba, NFS or SFTP

External drive support using libusbhsfs

Rich and responsive user interface, even under load

Screenshots

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Changelog

v1.0.1
Fixes playback of files with very long paths in the recent tab
Fixes a rare corruption of native screenshots
Miscellaneous UX improvements