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Life & fun · December 30, 2015

MPV

Cross platform video player with limited GUI

MPV launched on December 30, 2015 with 4 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

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

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. Powerful scripting capabilities can make the player do almost anything. There is a large selection of user scripts on the wiki . While mpv strives for minimalism and provides no real GUI, it has a small controller on top of the video for basic control. 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. mpv can leverage most hardware decoding APIs on all…from mpv.io

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