mpv

πŸŽ₯ Command line media player (by mpv-player)

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mpv reviews and mentions

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  • Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser 0.2.0
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2025
    mpv: https://mpv.io/

    Fbida sometimes need the -d option pointing to /dev/drm/something, when using screen or tmux. MPV required for years -vo=drm on the TTY but since some months it always works. Nice improvement :)

  • How I Built a TUI Without Leaving the Terminal
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Apr 2025
    The biggest challenge I faced was getting some sort of way to play music. So I picked the easiest routeβ€”I directly implemented it with mpv and I channeled logs of mpv (which had timestamps, which I needed) to a log file under the .sparklines folder, and managed it with a socket (a two-way communication endpoint to handle the custom commands). With the power of NodeJS, I made it work out and somehow it turned out a lot better than expected. Also, configuration files can be accessed at .sparklines/config.
  • The Angriest Commit Message
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2025
  • I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2025
    Xee's PSD rant is quite mild tho, as these things go. An other classic[0] is MPV's locales rant in which the frustration is a lot less constrained: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

    [0] keeping to focus being technical rather than the ranting, otherwise you have to go for Eric Naggum's XML rant: https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML

  • Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2025
    I mentioned this on reddit, but AFAIK, the uutils project doesn't yet support locales: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/3997

    I'm not any more a fan of POSIX locales than the next person[1], but AIUI, that seems a likely requirement for uutils to be used in a distro like Ubuntu.

    I'd be curious how they plan to address this. At least from my perspective, unless uutils has already been designed to account for locales from the start (I don't know if it has), it seems likely that a significant investment of time will be required to add support for it.

    [1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

  • Lua scripting in mpv video player
    1 project | dev.to | 3 Feb 2025
    I checked it and the mpv-cut script turned out to be a Lua script that lets you cut a video fragment directly while watching it in the mpv player.
  • Introducing TUISIC: TUI Music Streaming App.
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2025
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  • Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2025
    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.[0]

    https://mpv.io/

  • Best PR
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2024
    https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
  • MPV supports spatial audio on Apple platforms
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2024
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mpv-player/mpv is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of mpv is C.


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