Topic: mpv is a free, open source, and cross-platform media player

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mpv is a free, open source, and cross-platform media player

Overview

mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.


Scripting
Powerful scripting capabilities can make the player do almost anything. There is a large selection of user scripts on the wiki.


On Screen Controller
While mpv strives for minimalism and provides no real GUI, it has a small controller on top of the video for basic control.


High quality video output
mpv has an OpenGL, Vulkan, and D3D11 based video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, HDR, and more.


GPU video decoding
mpv can leverage most hardware decoding APIs on all platforms. Hardware decoding can be enabled at runtime on demand.


Embeddable
A straightforward C API was designed from the ground up to make mpv usable as a library and facilitate easy integration into other applications.


Active development
mpv is under active development, focusing on code refactoring and cleanups as well as adding features. Want a feature? Post a patch or request it!

          Installation   Using git master is recommended.
 

	Windows   All binary packages are unofficial third-party builds.
Windows builds by shinchiro (releases and git)	https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files
Scoop	https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/blob/master/bucket/mpv.json
Scoop (git)	https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/blob/master/bucket/mpv-git.json
Chocolatey	https://chocolatey.org/packages/mpv
Compilation instructions	https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/compile-windows.md
MSYS2 source package	https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-mpv
	OS X   Unofficial third-party builds.
Homebrew	https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/mpv.rb
OS X builds by stolendata	https://laboratory.stolendata.net/~djinn/mpv_osx/
MacPorts	https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/multimedia/mpv/Portfile
	Source code   If you want bleeding edge functionality, link against git versions of FFmpeg or if a package for your platform is not available or updated, you can build mpv from source code. The helper build scripts are recommended for most users since they perform a static build of FFmpeg and libass as well as mpv.
git repository	https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/
Latest stable release tarball	https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases/latest
Release changelog	https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases
Helper build scripts for *nix systems	https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build
	Linux packages   Distributions usually package outdated, unmaintained, and unsupported versions of mpv. This is especially true for popular distros like Debian and Ubuntu. You are recommended to use mpv-build or third-party packages instead. All of these packages are unofficial.
Arch (aur, git package)	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-git/
Arch (aur, mpv-build package)	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-build-git/
Debian multimedia (unofficial)	http://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-amd64/package/mpv
Gentoo (official package)	https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-video/mpv
Ubuntu (PPA)	https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/mpv-tests
Ubuntu and Debian (apt repository)	https://non-gnu.uvt.nl/debian
	Mobile platforms
Android	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.xyz.mpv
	Other platforms
FreeBSD (Freshports)	https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/mpv/
NetBSD	http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/multimedia/mpv/
OpenBSD	http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/multimedia/mpv/

https://mpv.io/installation/