Mpv (media player)

Last updated
mpv
Original author(s) Vincent Lang, [1] MPlayer and mplayer2 developers
Developer(s) Community
Initial releaseAugust 7, 2013;10 years ago (2013-08-07) [2]
Stable release
0.38.0 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 17 April 2024
Repository
Written in C, Objective-C, Lua [4]
Engine
  • FFmpeg
OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Operating system BSD-based, Linux, macOS, Windows
Platform ARM, PowerPC, x86 / IA-32, x86-64, and MIPS architecture [5]
Size Source code: 2.9 MB(tar.gz)
Type Media player
License GPLv2+, parts under LGPLv2.1+, some optional parts under GPLv3 [6]
Website mpv.io OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

mpv is free and open-source media player software based on MPlayer, mplayer2 and FFmpeg. It runs on several operating systems, including Unix-like operating systems (Linux, BSD-based, macOS) and Microsoft Windows, along with having an Android port called mpv-android. [7] It is cross-platform, running on ARM, PowerPC, x86/IA-32, x86-64, and MIPS architecture. [5]

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History

mpv was forked by Vincent Lang, also known as wm4, in 2012 from mplayer2, which was forked in 2010 from MPlayer. [8] The motive for the fork was to encourage developer activity by removing unmaintainable code and dropping support for very old systems. As a result, the project had a large influx of contributions. [9]

Since June 2015, the project's source code is in the process of being relicensed from GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) or later to GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPLv2.1) or later to allow using mpv as a library in more applications. [10]

Changes from MPlayer

mpv has had several notable changes [11] since it was forked from MPlayer; the most user-visible being the addition of an on-screen-controller (OSC) minimal GUI integrated with mpv to offer basic mouse-controllability. This was intended to make interaction easier for new users and to enable precise and direct seeking.

Removed functions

Interface and graphical front-ends

Like the original MPlayer, mpv is still primarily a command-line application although it has a more advanced user interface than MPlayer that can use not only the keyboard but also the mouse for mpv's on screen controller (OSC). However, this OSC is still not a full-featured GUI, and there are a number of front-ends available, which use GUI widgets for Qt, GTK, or some other widget toolkit to give mpv a more complete graphical interface.

The following are all open source front-ends of mpv (based on "libmpv" or the command-line version of mpv) which try to provide more features and more user-friendly interface than mpv, and/or better integration with various operating systems or desktop environments. [20]

GNOME MPV (Celluloid) 0.18 with its preferences GNOME MPV (Celluloid) 0.18 with its preferences.png
GNOME MPV (Celluloid) 0.18 with its preferences

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  2. ↑ wm4 (2013-08-07). "Release 0.1". MPV.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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