awesome-mpv/README.md

Awesome mpv

A curated list of mpv resources.

Table Of Contents

• Players
• Tools
• Streaming
• Video Processing
• Builds
• Popular or underrated user scripts 🚀
• User Scripts
• External Tools
• Remote Control
• Tutorial
• Building
• Libraries
• Frontend Details

Players

Listed are actively maintained players, unmaintained players are listed in the Frontend Details section.

Cross-platform

• Harmonoid - Music player and manager
• MoonPlayer - Media player
• Memento - Video player for studying Japanese

Windows

• mpv.net - Media player for Windows

Linux

• Celluloid - Media player
• Haruna - Media player
• Kawaii Player - Media player, library manager and server

MacOS

• IINA - Media player for for MacOS.

Tools

• mpv-rofi-menu - Control mpv using Rofi (Linux key stroke launcher).
• Vidcutter - Video cutter and joiner.
• boram - WebM converter.
• mpv-install - Sets up file associations for mpv on Windows.
• Glow - mpv Config File Generator for Windows.
• mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer.
• mpv-autosub - Automatic subtitle downloading for mpv.

Streaming

• jellyfin mpv shim - Jellyfin (Emby/Plex alternative) Client.
• Macast - DLNA Client.
• ff2mpv - A Firefox/Chrome extension for playing URLs in mpv.
• play-with-mpv - Chrome extension for playing URLs in mpv.
• Botflix/stream-cli - Python scrapping CLI that combines scrapy and webtorrent for streaming movies.
• orion - Cross platform Twitch.tv client (discontinued).
• plex-mpv-shim - Cast media from Plex Mobile and Web apps to MPV. (Unofficial)

Video Processing

• mpv-prescalers - Prescalers for mpv, as user shaders.

Builds

• shinchiro - Daily Windows builds of mpv and libmpv.
• zhongfly - Daily Windows builds of mpv and libmpv.

Popular or underrated user scripts 🚀

• M-x - Searchable command menu that allows to quickly find bindings and execute commands.
• mpv-file-browser - File browser, especially useful for users of a classic remote control.
• mpv-search-page - Allows searching for keybinds, properties, options and commands and have matching entries display on the OSD.
• mpv_thumbnail_script - Shows preview thumbnails in mpv's OSC seekbar.
• uosc - Feature-rich minimalist proximity-based UI for MPV player.

User Scripts

• https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts
• https://github.com/topics/mpv-script
• mpv-webm - mpv WebM converter with no external dependencies.
• occivink/mpv-scripts - Various scripts for mpv.

External Tools

• https://add0n.com/external-application-button.html
• https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher
• https://github.com/stax76/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Favorites
• https://github.com/stax76/OpenWithPlusPlus
• https://github.com/ikas-mc/ContextMenuForWindows11

Remote Control

• Classic remote control: One For All Contour URC1210 using Philips code 0556 together with FLIRC USB (gen2)
• https://github.com/husudosu/mpv-remote-app
• https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app
• https://github.com/open-dynaMIX/simple-mpv-webui
• https://github.com/datasone/MPVMediaControl
• mpv-mpris - On Linux allows controlling mpv using standard media keys.

Tutorial

• How to Use MPV on Windows
• mpv: The Best Video Player for Language Learning

Building

• https://github.com/mpvnet-player/mpv.net/wiki/Building-mpv-and-libmpv-using-wsl2-and-Ubuntu
• https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/compile-windows.md
• https://github.com/m-ab-s/media-autobuild_suite
• https://github.com/qyot27/mpv/blob/extra-new/DOCS/crosscompile-mingw-tedious.txt
• https://mxe.cc

Libraries

• python-mpv - mpv Python interface.
• mpv.js - Embeddable player for Electron/NW.js applications.

Frontend Details

Active maintained frontends with high rating are listed above unmaintained frontends with low rating.

IINA

• Media player
• Last Release: 2022
• Only for MacOS
• Rating: 31.9k Stars
• Programming Language: Swift
• UI Framework: Cocoa

Harmonoid

• Music player and manager
• Last Release: 2022
• Cross-platform
• Rating: 2.3k Stars
• Programming Language: Dart
• UI Framework: Flutter

mpv.net

• Media player
• Last Release: 2022
• Only for Windows
• Rating: 1.7k Stars
• Programming Language: C#
• UI Frameworks: WinForms and WPF

Celluloid

• Media player
• Last Release: 2022
• Only for Linux
• Rating: 840 Stars
• Programming Language: C
• UI Frameworks: GTK

MoonPlayer

• Media player
• Last Release: 2022
• Cross-platform
• Rating: 525 Stars
• Programming Language: C++
• UI Framework: QT QML

Memento

• Video player for studying Japanese
• Last Release: 2022
• Cross-platform
• Rating: 240 Stars
• Programming Language: C++
• UI Framework: QT

Haruna

• Media player
• Last Release: 2022
• Only for Linux
• Rating: 17 Stars
• Programming Language: C++
• UI Frameworks: QT QML

Kawaii Player

• Media player, library manager and server
• Last Release: 2020
• Only for Linux
• Rating: 523 Stars
• Programming Language: Python
• UI Frameworks: QT

movie-monad

• Media player
• Last Release: 2018
• Cross-platform
• Rating: 397 Stars
• Programming Language: Haskell
• UI Framework: GTK

Baka-MPlayer

• Media player
• Last Release: 2015
• Cross-platform
• Rating: 375 Stars
• Programming Language: C++
• UI Framework: QT

MPV-EASY-Player

• Not open source