mpv-player/mpv

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_license

Adoption not part of the score

36691 stars · 3496 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

mpv is a free, open-source, cross-platform command-line media player built on FFmpeg that supports a wide variety of media formats, codecs, and subtitle types. It offers high-quality GPU-based video output, hardware decoding, powerful scripting, and an embeddable C API for integration into other applications.

Use cases

• play video files from the command line
• play audio and video with subtitle support
• hardware-accelerated video playback
• embed a media player into another application via C API
• script custom playback behavior
• high-quality video scaling and HDR playback

When to choose

• you want a lightweight, scriptable media player without a full GUI
• you need broad codec and format support via FFmpeg
• you want videophile features like high-quality scaling, color management, and HDR
• you need an embeddable playback engine for your own app

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured graphical media library interface
• you target very old hardware or unsupported operating systems
• you need power-efficient playback on low-end integrated GPUs

Facets

application · maturity active

video-processing audio-processing cli gui media cross-platform developer-tools windows cli cross-platform media-player ffmpeg subtitles hardware-decoding scriptable c-api embeddable linux macos

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="mpv-player/mpv")