# mpvnet-player/mpv.net

🎞 mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI.

Repository: https://github.com/mpvnet-player/mpv.net
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mpvnet
Language: C#
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: video-player, audio-player, libmpv, media-player, mpv, ffmpeg, winforms, wpf, dotnet, mediainfo, javascript, lua, command-line, terminal, video, gui, windows, music-player, yt-dlp
Last push: 2026-02-09T13:12:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 61/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 66, release rhythm 33, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3293, "days_push": 205, "days_rel": 236, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5346, forks 219 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:15.892856+00:00)

## What it is
mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI, built on libmpv and .NET. It exposes nearly all mpv features including Lua/JavaScript scripting, JSON IPC, GPU video decoding, and streaming via yt-dlp.

## Use cases
- play videos on windows with a modern gui
- use mpv with a graphical interface
- play audio and video files without installing codecs
- stream youtube videos in a desktop player
- script and control a media player with lua or json ipc

## When to choose
- you want mpv's playback quality and features with a friendly GUI on Windows
- you need wide format support with built-in decoders and GPU acceleration
- you want scriptable, externally controllable playback via JSON IPC

## When to avoid
- you need a cross-platform player (mpv.net is Windows-only)
- you prefer a minimal terminal-only mpv experience
- you need a player not tied to the mpv/libmpv ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, video-processing, audio-processing, cli
- domain: media, desktop-applications, windows
- platform: windows, dotnet
- tags: media-player, mpv, libmpv, video-player, audio-player, yt-dlp, lua-scripting, javascript-scripting, json-ipc, desktop

## Member repositories
- mpvnet-player/mpv.net (main) score 61

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:15.892856+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 2026-08-29T17:58:48.616669+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mpvnet-player/mpv.net (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:15.892856+00:00, sha e31c232cc6af)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.