# mpv-android/mpv-android

Video player for Android based on libmpv ↦ #mpv-android @ irc.libera.chat

Repository: https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mpv-android
Language: Kotlin
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: android-app, audio, mpv, multimedia, video, video-player
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:04:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 73, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3787, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 22, "gap_med": 90.5, "n_releases_24m": 9}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3494, forks 473 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:07.271236+00:00)

## What it is
mpv-android is a video player application for Android built on top of libmpv. It offers hardware/software decoding, gesture controls, styled subtitle rendering via libass, network stream playback, and background/Picture-in-Picture support.

## Use cases
- play videos on android with mpv
- watch videos with styled subtitles on android
- play network streams on my phone
- background audio playback for video files
- video player for android tv
- dual subtitle track playback
- high quality video rendering with advanced scaler settings

## When to choose
- you want the mpv playback engine on an Android device
- you need advanced rendering options like debanding, interpolation, and custom scalers
- you need libass styled subtitles or dual subtitle tracks
- you want an open-source player available on F-Droid or Google Play

## When to avoid
- you want an embeddable AAR library for your own app - mpv-android explicitly is not a library
- you need DRM-protected streaming service playback
- you need an iOS or desktop player

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, audio-processing
- domain: media, android-tools, cross-platform
- platform: -
- tags: video-player, libmpv, subtitles, media-playback, kotlin, android

## Member repositories
- mpv-android/mpv-android (main) score 90

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:07.271236+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:35:55.242004+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:07.271236+00:00, sha f3d3b65df75c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.