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Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by entropie »

I started to use it on linux a few years ago.

Now its on every device, even on my android tablet. Its perfect. Minimalistic, sane defaults, fast and just works.

It can even play natively over ssh. Its awesome

> mpv sftp://mit@nyx/home/mit/Work/merged.mp4

Recently I needed a hotkey to rotate a video (which seems not like any player can easily do this; for mpv it was a 'r cycle_values video-rotate "90" "180" "270" "0"' in the in input.conf)

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

#13

Post by coppsilgold »

MPV has versatile scripts. For example you can cut and crop a video you are watching[1].

You can also introduce hotkeys for functionalities I have never seen in another player.

I use this (input.conf) sometimes to normalize the brightness and colors of a scene I'm watching (may not work when using hardware decoding):

    n vf toggle normalize=smoothing=100
Or rotate a video:

    Ctrl+r no-osd cycle-values video-rotate "90" "180" "270" "0"
[1] https://github.com/occivink/mpv-scripts>

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by Bluestein »

jwells89 wrote: post #5

This has always worked well for me, handling anything that’s thrown at it with ease. Things may have changed since then, but when I first encountered the project several years ago it seemed like the thing that made this project stand out compared to other player projects was a big emphasis on correctness and accurate playback. There have files I’ve encountered that for example VLC will play with quirks (color reprodu…

> There have files I’ve encountered that for example VLC will play with quirks (color reproduction is not quite right, etc) that mpv plays perfectly.

Given how VLC is basically bulletproof and will play absolutely anything thrown at it - it's great to hear that mpv is up there ...

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by blfr »

The best media player in existence: superb minimalist UI, makes use of hardware accelaration, and just plays videos.

Its continued excellence is one of the reasons why I will probably remain a pirate for life. Streaming services spend millions on their players and don't come close.

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

#17

Post by entropie »

ailurooo wrote: post #11

i used to be able to go frame by frame with quicktime.. is there any modern video player that can actually do this?

This is a build in feature that mplayer had and mpv has aswell

. and , on keyboard go frame-to-frame, you can also up and downspeed with [ and ]

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by sweeter »

coppsilgold wrote: post #13

MPV has versatile scripts. For example you can cut and crop a video you are watching[1]. You can also introduce hotkeys for functionalities I have never seen in another player. I use this (input.conf) sometimes to normalize the brightness and colors of a scene I'm watching (may not work when using hardware decoding): n vf toggle normalize=smoothing=100 Or rotate a video: Ctrl+r no-osd cycle-values video-rotate "90" "…

it also has a robust Lua scripting interface. I made a tool in Golang and Lua that allows Mpv to treat torrent files and magnet links as if they were http links. You can then stream a torrent directly.

People also don't realize that mpv not only has the ability to stream youtube videos but you can also search youtube on the CLI using mpv `mpv ytdl://ytsearch:query`

it can also play videos directly in the terminal using ascii, sixel or kitty image protocol (which is by far the highest quality)

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