# mpv-player/mpv

🎥 Command line media player

Repository: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mpv
Homepage: https://mpv.io
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: mpv, mplayer, c, ffmpeg, audio, video, multimedia
Last push: 2026-08-26T16:04:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 30, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5072, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 255, "gap_med": 226.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 36691, forks 3496 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:01.219621+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, audio-processing, cli, gui
- domain: media, cross-platform, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: media-player, ffmpeg, subtitles, hardware-decoding, scriptable, c-api, embeddable, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- mpv-player/mpv (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:01.219621+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 2026-08-29T16:25:55.372900+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:01.219621+00:00, sha ed93855a3ead)
  - homepage: https://mpv.io (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:25.990648+00:00, sha edd26a283a4d)
  - site_page: https://mpv.io/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:25.999624+00:00, sha a633effca9d8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.