mpv-install VS Bat-2-Exec

Haven't tested it myself, but you can try this: https://github.com/rossy/mpv-install

MPV is minimal interface for maximal play-ability. VLC is just good for what it was intended for; streaming video. Not to say VLC is all bad since it actually does feature a UI that makes it usable for boomers in a court scenario. Like I remember VLC always having weird visual glitches from time to time. MPV doesn't have a regular installation like you would expect with any normal program. You'd need to put it into /program files and use the https://github.com/rossy/mpv-install/blob/master/README.md .bat script to automatically set all your defaults.

rossy's original "mpv-install.bat" needs to be executed the way you describe, i.e. located besides the "mpv.exe" binary, but shinchiro's "mpv-install.bat" copy needs to be run in accordance to directory structure as found in the .7z and as shown above.

i assume you are on windows? there is a file called install.bat on the folder your mpv.exe file is, run that with the administrator privilege and it should set it up correctly, if your mpv archive file didn't have this you can also check this repo that might work for you

What I'm really wondering here is if I fucked up the tutorial, downloaded the wrong files from some wrong website or whatever went wrong and what I should do next. I also saw a zip-file on the github to download mpv. I also may have downloaded that one.

If for some reason you need to convert your .bat to an .exe for another software to recognize this. The only way I'd reccomend that is this simple option on github. You don't need to do this for DisplayFusion, but some custom options in other software my require it and this is the most simple solution: https://github.com/amakvana/Bat-2-Exec - Pretty much avoid any other bat2exe software IMO.

I use this: https://github.com/amakvana/Bat-2-Exec

amakvana/Bat-2-Exec: A wrapper for converting Batch files into Executables using IExpress (github.com)