"But I suspect actually that PPA only works because it omits the Ubuntu patches which we would like to keep." Not really though patches not not included, nor needed. What you'll find in 0.28+ is that hwdec in wayland needs to be specifically commanded, what's used for wayland will not work with xserver & vice versa So there will not be a generic 'one size fits all' solution.
(- users of ppa - if you look in the quicklists of the launcher's mpv icon there is one to pull up a command list for vaapi* hwdec in wayland xserver users can just go with previous, i.e. hwdec= hwdec=yes or hwdec=vaapi xserver user with nvidia hybrid device, nvidia drivers installed but on the intel profile should only use hwdec=vaapi -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1739880 Title: on wayland, mpv opens without window elements, OSD missing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mpv/+bug/1739880/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs