mpv

Based on C/Lua.

MoonPlayer

Based on C++/QT/QML.

SMPlayer

Based on C++/QT.

ImPlay

Based on C++/imgui.

Baka-MPlayer

Unmaintained, based on C++/QT.

movie-monad

Unmaintained, based on Haskell/GTK.

OvoPlayer

Unmaintained, based on Pascal.

mpv.net

Based on C#/WinForms/WPF.

mpv-hero

mpv extended with GUI scripts and GUI tools.

mpc-qt

Based on C++/QT.

MPV-EASY Player

MMP: Minimalist Media Player

Player/Manager/Editor for audio and video, and Viewer/Manager for images/thumbnails; maintained, based on 64-bit Delphi Pascal. Official wiki.

IINA

Based on Swift/Cocoa.

Celluloid

Based on C/GTK.

Kawaii Player

Player/Library/Server, based on Python/QT.

xt7-player-mpv

Based on Gambas/QT.

mpvz

Based on C++/QT/QML.

Haruna

Based on C++/QT/QML.

Deepin Movie

Unmaintained, based on C++/QT.

bomi player

Unmaintained, based on C++/QT.

android

Player for Android, based on Kotlin.

Kt

Player for Android, based on Kotlin.

Official mpv installation instruction

shinchiro GitHub

Daily Windows builds of mpv and libmpv. This is the most popular choice on Windows.

shinchiro Sourceforge

Windows builds of mpv and libmpv. The advantage of this choice is that it has old builds for the case of new builds having issues.

zhongfly

Windows builds of mpv and libmpv. This choice is very similar to shinchiro GitHub, so it's also a recommendation.

Andarwinux

Daily Windows builds of mpv and libmpv including ARM64 architecture.

mitzsch

Windows builds of mpv and libmpv.

mpsm

mpsm is a mpv script manager, you can install scripts provided by mpsm-scripts, or install any script with added meta info via url.

Manual

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

How to Use MPV on Windows

mpv: The Best Video Player for Language Learning

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mpv

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man1/mpv.1.html

https://mpv.io/community/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mpv

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

command_palette

Searchable menu for bindings, playlist, chapters, profiles, all tracks, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitle tracks, secondary subtitle tracks, subtitle lines, commands, properties, options, audio devices, Blu-ray titles, stream quality, aspect ratio, recent files.

uosc

Popular OSC with menu.

M-x

Searchable and configurable menu to quickly find key bindings and commands.

search-page

Searchable and configurable menu to quickly find key bindings, commands, options and properties.

mdmenu

Use dmenu (Linux launcher) for selecting audio/subtitle/chapters etc.

Tcl/Tk context-menu

Configurable context-menu based on Tcl/Tk (cross-platform).

contextmenu

Comprehensive context-menu forked from Tcl/Tk context menu.

menu

Configurable on screen menu to run custom commands.

mpvc-tui

Command-line and TUI for mpv.

menu

Configurable on screen context-menu.

menu-plugin

Win32 context menu, file dialog, clipboard support for mpv on Windows.

playlist-kdialog

Use KDE's KDialog or GTK's zenity to show current playlist or select playlist entry.

mpvselectmenu

Context-menu inspired by select.lua utilising mpv's input and console script functionality. Uses other scripts (see Requirements).

playlist-manager

Create and manage playlists.

trackselect

Select tracks based on their title.

chapterskip

Skip chapters based on their title.

createchapter

Temporarily mark the current playback position as a chapter so you can seek to it later. Also allows writing current chapters as XML.

chapters

Display chapters and allow you to jump to them with a mouse click. (Preview)

chapter-list

Interractive chapter-list menu.

chapter-make-read

Automatically read an load the namesake external chapter file with extension of CHP. Temporarily mark the current playback position as a chapter so you can seek to it later. Also allows writing current chapters as CHP or XML. Based on createchapter.

M-x

Searchable and configurable menu to quickly find key bindings and commands.

betterchapters

(update) - Loads the next or previous playlist entry if there are no more chapters in the seek direction.

chapters_for_mpv

Add, remove and edit chapters of the currently played media. Chapters you create can be saved into a separate text file and automatically loaded when you open the same media file again.

autochapters

Automatically finds chapters for your anime files.

chapter-converter

Converts chapter format between YouTube (e.g., "00:10 chapter title") and mpv (FFmpeg metadata).

sort_script

Sort directories and files.

fastforward

Fast-forward instead of skipping.

libunity

Show a nice progress bar on your Linux panel/dock.

segment-linking

Supports Matroska hard segment linking.

quack

Reduces audio volume temporarily after seeking.

control

Various features mainly for controlling playback.

groupwatch_sync

Automatically start and get back in sync with a group watch.

unseen-playlistmaker

Keeps track of your watched files from a directory, and on keypress enters playlist-mode to watch unseen files from that specified directory.

multiloop

Loop over multiple A-B points.

bluetooth-av-delay

Adds desired A-V delay automatically, if default audio sink is a bluetooth device.

skip-silence

Playback mode that automatically skips/speed up silent parts.

skipsilence

Increase playback speed during quiet parts of the file.

dvd-browser

Browse and load DVD titles.

plugin-myshows

Automatically marks a currently watched episode in MyShows.

writename

Write the currently playing filename/path to a file, optionally skipping/removing from current playlist and muting.

when-to-loop

Intelligently decide when mpv should loop, i.e. while shuffling or while playing a short file.

UndoRedo

Undo and Redo feature for mpv. If you seek/jump to a different time in the video, press undo [ctrl]+[z] to linearly undo the seeks/jumps in the video, and press redo [ctrl]+[y] to linearly return to previous undo positions. More details in the link above.

command_palette

Searchable menu for bindings, playlist, chapters, profiles, all tracks, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitle tracks, secondary subtitle tracks, subtitle lines, commands, properties, options, audio devices, Blu-ray titles, stream quality, aspect ratio, recent files.

history

Simple played media logger. Will generate a mpvhistory.log in the default mpv config folder (%APPDATA%/mpv/ or $HOME/.config/mpv/) in the format [$DATE $TIME] $PATH ($?MEDIA-TITLE). Only tested on Windows.

history

Autosave played media items in an SQLite database, restore last played position, select (with dmenu(1)) and play item from history.

excessive-history

Excessive played media logger. Logs file name, time, and which parts were played. Will generate a history.txt in the mpv config folder. Only tested on Windows.

history-bookmark

Create a history file to store the episode we watched last time. And let us easily jump to the video we watched last time.

recent

Recently (history) played menu.

recent-menu

Recently (history) played menu integrated with uosc.

memo

A recent files/history menu for mpv with optional uosc integration.

plugin-bookmark

Record your playing history for each folder.

bookmarker-menu

Menu to manage all your bookmarks.

bookmarks

Support add/delete/prev/next bookmarks, and persistence to sidecar JSON or config directory.

censor

Skip over parts of videos you don't want (others) to view

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

heuristic-autoload

Automatically load files with similar names as the playing file into the playlist.

total_playtime

Shows total playtime of current playlist.

trakt

Connects trakt.tv with mpv and automatically scrobbles movies/shows.

tree-profiles

Automatically apply profiles to certain directories or files.

timer

Allows the user to set a starting time and an ending time and see the time elapsed between those points with millisecond precision.

time

Shows the current time or the time at which playback will end.

stats

Display some statistics about the currently played file on-screen.

speed-transition-Audio

Changes playback speed based on volume thresholds.

speed

Always show current playback speed on the OSD.

skipchapters

Automatically skip chapters matching a given list of regular expressions (eg. "OP" or "Opening").

skiptofade

Seeks forward until a black screen appears. Built to skip openings. Uses the lavfi blackdetect filter.

skiptosilence detuur

Skips to the next silence in the file.

save-playlist

This script saves your playlist to the working directory of the mpv process.

rewindPlaylist

keybind to rewind to the end of the previous playlist entry

seek-to

Seek to an absolute timestamp specified via keyboard input.

review

Allows to remove files viewed quickly from within mpv

reload

Sometimes you have unstable internet connection, or YouTube server dies, or your computer was sleeping for too long, or whatever. The thing is: you were watching something, you lost the connection, MPV doesn't want to play it further, you don't want to find the video again and then seek it to the…

reload

When an online video is stuck during buffering or got slow CDN source, restarting often helps. This script provides automatic reloading of videos that didn't have buffering progress for some time, keeping the current time position. It also adds Ctrl+r keybinding to reload video manually.

radio-title

Automatically fetch current playing title from webradio website when not provided by stream.

MPV-EASY Player

playlist-view

Display and navigate the playlist in a grid view of thumbnails.

playlist-navigator

OSD display features easy navigation with scrolling and search to select files to play or remove from playlist.

pause-indicator-lite

A simple script that displays an indicator on pause, with options to adjust icon, color, height, width, opacity and whether to toggle pause with a keybind or not.

pause-indicator

Displays a momentary icon that flashes in the middle of the screen, similar to YouTube.

nextfile

Force opens next or previous file in the currently playing files directory.

Change-OSD-Media-Title

Displays filename, percentage watched, current chapter, and number of frames dropped in the OSD media title and updates it whenever one of the values has changed.

bookmarker

Bookmark your favorite time on media files

interactive-video

Script for watching interactive videos (such as Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch).

guess-media-title

Uses guessit to detect a media title by filename and set force-media-title variable. Useful for getting cleaner screenshot file names.

fastforward

Instead of skipping forward in media files, speed up the playback for a few seconds. Playback speed decays back to 1x after a few seconds. Tap rapidly or hold down to go faster.

evafast

Fast-forwarding and seeking on a single key, with quality of life features like slowing down a bit when subtitles are shown.

autoloop

Automatically loops files that are under a given duration (default 5 seconds).

autosave

Periodically saves "watch later" data during playback, rather than only saving on quit. Newer fork.

mpv_segment_length

Displays the length of a segment/range from point A to point B.

print-playlist

Cleans the playlist formatting on the terminal.

btime

Shows a shorter time format when seeking: 0:15 / 3:10, 08:20 / 55:00, 0:00:05 / 1:30:14.

mpv-slash-search

Simple and lightweight script that allows you to search for a file in the playlist and jump to the first match.

mpvclip-mpvival-mpvloop

Run MPV with options for loops and playback start and end times set according to a pattern or intervals of the total duration of a file.

loop-until

Loop the video until a specified amount of time. (e.g. loop a 30s wallpaper video to 30min)

generate-edl

Bookmark scenes in EDL files.

autoload-archive-hook

When playing a direct file from within an archive with e.g. archive://test.rar|/09.png, mpv doesn't fill the playlist. This script does so transparently. It also supports nested and remote archives.

LoopToFile

Functional script that allows you to generate playback loops and extract media fragments into new files. L∞p → file.ext.

abstime-osd

Show absolute time of the playing audio or video.(OSD).

mpv-PiP

Allow users to switch to borderless and top-level picture-in-picture mode with shortcut keys.

mpv-file-organizer

Automatically organizes media files into folders based on metadata tags.

file-browser

On screen file browser.

filenavigator

Navigate and open local files.

command_palette

Searchable menu for bindings, playlist, chapters, profiles, all tracks, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitle tracks, secondary subtitle tracks, subtitle lines, commands, properties, options, audio devices, Blu-ray titles, stream quality, aspect ratio, recent files.

censor

Skip over parts of videos you don't want (others) to view

open-file-dialog

Launch a Windows open file dialog.

zenity-open-files

Use GTK's zenity to add files to playlist, subtitles to playing video or open URLs.

KDialog-open-files

Use KDE's KDialog to add files to playlist, subtitles to playing video or open URLs.

simple-loader

(Linux) Browse dirs and files on OSD, and launch them with mpv.

Serkio Tagger

Annotate videos with tags while you watch.

history-bookmark

Create a history file to store the episode we watched last time. And let us easily jump to the video we watched last time.

rename

Rename files on the go directly from within MPV player window without leaving it.

limited-autoload

Auto-load files in a lazy way by limiting how many are loaded into playlist at once

locate-file

Locate current media file on your OS file browser

fuzzydir

Allows using wildcards for sub-file-paths and audio-file-paths.

separator

Copy or move video files you wanna keep.

open-in-explorer

Shows the currently playing file in Windows File Explorer.

open-dir

Opens the path of the current file in Windows File Explorer.

uosc

Popular OSC with menu.

osc-modern

Modern OSC replacement.

ModernX cyl0

Modern OSC replacement.

ModernX zydezu

A fork of ModernX with many additional features and customization.

modern-x-compact

Compact version of modern-x.

pause-indicator-lite

A simple script that displays an indicator on pause, with options to adjust icon, color, height, width, opacity and whether to toggle pause with a keybind or not.

uosc_history_menu

A history and bookmark management menu integrated with uosc.

tethys

OSC replacement with seekbar thumbnail preview.

dark-box

OSC replacement.

oscc

Dark-themed OSC.

thumbnail_script

Shows preview thumbnails in the seekbar.

thumbnail_script

Shows preview thumbnails in the seekbar.

thumbnail_script

Shows preview thumbnails in the seekbar.

sosc

An OSC supplement for OSC replacements. Provides the idle message and script messages from the original OSC.

progressbar

A minimalistic OSC replacement. It provides a small, unintrusive progress bar that persists at the bottom of the video window.

MPV-EASY Player

osc-show-hide

Toggles the on-screen controller with a hotkey.

osc-orange

An osc/ui replacement in dark theme.

mfpbar

A minimalistic progressbar and osc replacement.

mfpbar-drag

mfpbar with support for dragging the bar.

osc-simple

An OSC/UI replacement of white theme.

osc-modern-f

OSC script forked from mpv-osc-modern.

gestures

Touchscreen and mouse gestures.

touch-gestures

Gestures for play/pause, speed, volume, seeking and next/previous playlist-item.

cheatsheet

Looking up keyboard shortcuts (bindings).

InputEvent

Enhanced input.conf with better, conflict-free, low-latency event mechanism.

zones

Handles commands depending on where the mouse pointer is at, mostly for mouse wheel handling.

guess-media-title

Uses guessit to detect a media title by filename and set force-media-title variable. Useful for getting cleaner screenshot file names.

repl

A REPL for input commands that is displayed on the video window.

pointer-event

Mutually exclusive, low latency mouse/touch input event detection. Executes configurable commands on single-click, double-click, long-click and dragging.

when-to-loop

Intelligently decide when mpv should loop, i.e. while shuffling or while playing a short file.

Sockets

creates one IPC sockets per mpv instance, instead of one socket for the last started instance. Supports: Linux, MacOS and Windows.

multi-command-if

Very powerful conditional logic and multiple action engine for your keybindings, without having to write a single line of code!

M-x

Searchable and configurable menu to quickly find key bindings and commands.

cycle-commands

Allows input.conf commands to be cycled through with keybinds.

cycle_messages

Cycle between custom OSD messages.

skiptosilence detuur

Skips to the next silence in the file.

boss-key-wayland

Minimise and pause video at the same time in Linux through xdg-portals.

reload

Sometimes you have unstable internet connection, or YouTube server dies, or your computer was sleeping for too long, or whatever. The thing is: you were watching something, you lost the connection, MPV doesn't want to play it further, you don't want to find the video again and then seek it to the…

fuzzydir

Allows using wildcards for sub-file-paths and audio-file-paths.

tree-profiles

Automatically apply profiles to certain directories or files.

command_palette

Searchable menu for bindings, playlist, chapters, profiles, all tracks, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitle tracks, secondary subtitle tracks, subtitle lines, commands, properties, options, audio devices, Blu-ray titles, stream quality, aspect ratio, recent files.

mpv-omniGlass

Touchpad gestures for mpv.

assrt by AssrtOSS

Download subtitles from assrt.net.

sub-assrt by dyphire

Download Chinese subtitles from assrt.

autosub

Automatic subtitle downloading.

sub-select

Advanced conditional subtitle track selector.

autosubsync

Automatic subtitle synchronization script.

intersubs

Interactive subtitles.

sub-transition

Speed up the video if no subtitles are visible.

sub

Python script to automate downloading and loading subtitle from subscence.

fastforward

Instead of skipping forward in media files, speed up the playback for a few seconds. Playback speed decays back to 1x after a few seconds. Tap rapidly or hold down to go faster.

trueautosub

Fork of autosub, automatically downloads subtitles if not present using subliminal. (osx/linux only)

guess-media-title

Uses guessit to detect a media title by filename and set force-media-title variable. Useful for getting cleaner screenshot file names.

censor

Skip over parts of videos you don't want (others) to view

zones

Handles commands depending on where the mouse pointer is at, mostly for mouse wheel handling.

chapter-make-read

Automatically read an load the namesake external chapter file with extension of CHP. Temporarily mark the current playback position as a chapter so you can seek to it later. Also allows writing current chapters as CHP or XML. Based on createchapter.

sub-bilingual

Generate bilingual subtitles.

sub-pause

Automatically pause just before the end of each subtitle line. Also allows replaying the currently active line.

sub-transition

Speed up playback when no subtitles are visible.

speed

Always show current playback speed on the OSD.

autoloop

Automatically loops files that are under a given duration (default 5 seconds).

playphrase

Search and play phrases from movies and audiobooks.

osc-show-hide

Toggles the on-screen controller with a hotkey.

libass_sub_selector

Visually select individual subtitles a la PotPlayer.

find_subtitles

(Down)load subtitles with subliminal.

dessubdb

Download automatically subtitles from the thesubdb.com using DESSubdb.

autosubsync

Automatically sync subtitles using ffsubsync.

autosub

Automatically download subtitles using subliminal.

Audio WebDAV & Sub WebDAV

Auto connection of external subtitles and sound, using the "WEBDAV" protocol. The connection is explicit due to explicitly specifying folders on the WebDAV server.

sub-not-forced-not-sdh

Prevents the selection of FORCED and SDH subtitles when you start playing a video.

autoselect-forced-sub

Automatically select forced subtitles in a different way.

subtitle-lines

List and search subtitle lines of the selected subtitle track.

auto-load-fonts

Auto load the font files in the fonts folder under the play file path.

rename-sub

Rename current subtitle file as the playing video.

whisper-subs

Generates subtitles at runtime with whisper.cpp on Linux.

ytsub

Load automatic captions from Youtube, can select language interactively or automatically.

chapter-converter

Converts chapter format between YouTube (e.g., "00:10 chapter title") and mpv (FFmpeg metadata).

subber

Write subtitles in mpv.

sub-fastwhisper

Generate SRT subtitles through voice transcription using faster-whisper.

llm-subtrans

Extract & translate subtitles with OpenAI API. Streaming & contextual.

mpvacious

Add keybindings to create Anki flashcards for (language) learning.

interSubs

Interactive subtitles, instantly translate selected word/sentence.

immersive

Looking up words generating Anki flashcards.

migaku

Learn languages together with the Migaku browser extension.

Yomichampv

A simple solution for integration with Yomichan - a browser-based japanese dictionay.

sub-bilingual

Generate bilingual subtitles.

rikai

Integrated Japanese dictionary and parser to translate by hovering over words. Works on Linux.

mpv2anki SenneH

A simple way to add notes to Anki with Audio, screenshots and/or subtitles, with few dependencies.

mpv2anki alyssabedard

(Different script with Windows, macOS and Linux support) A simple script to assist your language learning journey in any language by automatically capturing multimedia content from mpv to Anki.

lang-learner

Turn MPV into language learner tool. Includes: AB-loop current subtitle or auto loop each one, quick switch between lang you know and lang you are learning, forward to browser (dictionaries, translators), record for future extra learning, export to external script for integrations, and a bit more.

mpv-Subtitle-Definition

Instant, on-screen definitions for difficult or obscure words found in subtitles.

coverart

Automatically loads external cover art for music files.

metadata-osd

Adds OSD showing song name, album name and other metadata.

lrc

Download synchronized lyrics of the currently playing song.

Open Sound Control

Open Sound Control listener.

visualizer

Various audio visualizations.

command_palette

Searchable menu for bindings, playlist, chapters, profiles, all tracks, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitle tracks, secondary subtitle tracks, subtitle lines, commands, properties, options, audio devices, Blu-ray titles, stream quality, aspect ratio, recent files.

pitchcontrol

Adjusts audio pitch in half-tone steps.

volnorm

Client-server setup to provide EBU R.128 volume leveling to MPV, even if files stored on a server and played on multiple machines. (Works on Linux, probably all Unix-like; server in Perl).

drcbox

Dynamic Audio Normalizer filter with visual feedback.

dbvol

Replaces the default volume controls with a decibel (dB) scale instead of arbitrary percentages.

cycle-audio-device

Cycle through available audio devices with key binds.

channel mixer

A set of keybindings using a modifier (Shift or Ctrl) and the function keys (F8-F12) to can adjust the mixing level of surround channels on the fly.

audio-dupe

Runs a child process to play a second audio stream. Synced through named pipe.

zones

Handles commands depending on where the mouse pointer is at, mostly for mouse wheel handling.

Audio WebDAV & Sub WebDAV

Auto connection of external subtitles and sound, using the "WEBDAV" protocol. The connection is explicit due to explicitly specifying folders on the WebDAV server.

chapter-make-read

Automatically read an load the namesake external chapter file with extension of CHP. Temporarily mark the current playback position as a chapter so you can seek to it later. Also allows writing current chapters as CHP or XML. Based on createchapter.

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

switch-both-audio

Switch between playing one or two audio tracks simultaneously upon file load or with a hotkey.

Sofalizer

Simulates 7.1 surround sound to your headset. Get the sofa file from here

afilter

Script for easy access to certain audio compressors and HRTF sofalizer in mpv with option to whitelist filters based on type of media.

ff-silence

Fast forward through silences and quiet parts of audio, useful on videos where the speaker uses many long pauses.

aspeed.lua

Multi-stereo speed randomization & tri-color clocks. Applies arbitrary speed formula & has chipmunk mode for left-channel. Also has double-mute insta-toggle. Primary channel may be left or right. A filterchain applies to all speakers - each is its own mpv. Has many script-messages. For mpv…

jellyfin

Turns mpv into a Jellyfin client.

mpvDLNA

Browse and watch content hosted on DLNA servers.

selectformat

Select the format (quality) of internet videos.

sponsorblock_minimal

More simple version of the sponsorblock script.

sponsorblock

Script to skip sponsored segments of YouTube videos.

streamsave

Save live streams without encoding.

mpvf

Select youtube-dl format for streaming.

quality-menu

Change the streamed video and audio quality (ytdl-format) on the fly.

youtube-download

Download YouTube audio and video with one key press.

cycle-commands

Allows input.conf commands to be cycled through with keybinds.

youtube-search

Use zenity and youtube-dl to search YouTube. Linux only.

youtube-upnext

A menu for (auto) playing YouTube's "up next"/recommended videos, that show up on the right side on the website.

ytdlautoformat

Automatically adjusts ytdl-format (yt-dlp) for specified domains.

ytdl-preload

Precache the next entry in your playlist if it is a network source by downloading it to a temp file ahead of time. Updated to download all streams in parallel so you can watch it while it downloads.

youtube-queue

Implements the YouTube 'Add to Queue' functionality. Allows adding video urls to the queue from the clipboard, and provides a menu for interacting with the queue.

webtorrent-hook

Allows streaming torrents using webtorrent (same as mpv-peerflix-hook but using webtorrent instead). Webtorrent-cli can play in mpv with webtorrent --mpv, but this script allows using torrent identifiers as the file argument to mpv or pasting them into the current playlist using one of the pasting…

play-with

A web browser extension that can open a video stream on a web page with an external player.

confluence

Open magnet links using confluence HTTP service. Recommended to use modified script for TorrServer instead.

torrserver

Allows streaming torrents using TorrServer. Support magnet links and .torrent files

torrserver-hook

Allows for playback of media from the BitTorrent network using TorrServer.

btfs-hook

Allows streaming torrents using FUSE via btfs.

btfs-stream

Allows streaming torrents using btfs. As far as I can tell, it is much simpler than the above scripts (no long shell script execution) and much more configurable (the other scripts have no settings). This is much slower than using webtorrent though, so I recommend using webtorrent-hook instead.

streamcache

Provides for more network-glitch-robust caching of live streams by adjusting replay speed.

stopCache

stops the demuxer from downloading more if it is already past --end

spotify

Add current playing title to an user defined Spotify playlist.

sopcast

Adds support for sop:// urls.

show-stream-title

Show OSD stream/channel title when switching the IPTV channels from m3u playlist.

peerflix-hook

Allows streaming of magnet links using peerflix, similar to youtube-dl.

yledl

Watch videos from YLE Areena in mpv using yle-dl

peerflix-hook

Stream magnet links in mpv with peerflix.

acestream

Add AceStream protocol handler to mpv. Let the user open streams by dropping Acestream links into mpv GUI or by passing them as command line argument.

reduce_stream_cache

Reduces MPV cache for streams by increasing playback speed. Works with Twitch through Streamlink.

last.fm scrobbler

Sends the information about playing tracks to last.fm, see http://www.last.fm/help/faq?category=99 for more info.

http-ytproxy

Simple MitM http proxy to modify Range http headers. Can be used to speed up youtube videos.

torrserver-browser

This script lets you search and play torrents from Rutor via TorrServer directly in mpv, without using a browser or external applications. The search is bound to the f key inside mpv and uses a user input module to get text from the keyboard. The M key opens the main script UI, showing everything…

changerefresh

Automatically change the refresh rate of the current display to match the playing video (Windows).

autospeed

Adjusts the display refresh rate and video speed for almost 1:1 playback (Unix-like OSes, Xorg / X11).

gpufreq

Displays the current and maximum GPU frequency as an osd message.

mvtools-script

vapoursynth-mvtools script.

btime

Shows a shorter time format when seeking: 0:15 / 3:10, 08:20 / 55:00, 0:00:05 / 1:30:14.

xrandr

Automatically sets the display refresh rate to the one best suitable for the video played

mpv-kscreen-doctor

Like the xrandr script automatically sets the display refresh rate to the one best suitable for the video played, works for KDE Plasma Wayland sessions.

vlcaspectratio

Implements a VLC style aspect ratio hotkey 'a' that stretches the video to different aspect ratios.

multi-command-if

Very powerful conditional logic and multiple action engine for your keybindings, without having to write a single line of code!

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

matroska-crop

Automatically crop video using the Matroska PixelCrop properties. Includes optional workaround for hardware decoding.

dynamic-crop

Dynamically crop the video by using lavfi's cropdetect filter to detect hard-coded black bars for Ultra Wide Screen (21:9) or any screen different from 16:9 (phone/old TV).

seek-to

Seek to an absolute timestamp specified via keyboard input.

when-to-loop

Intelligently decide when mpv should loop, i.e. while shuffling or while playing a short file.

aspeed.lua

Multi-stereo speed randomization & tri-color clocks. Applies arbitrary speed formula & has chipmunk mode for left-channel. Also has double-mute insta-toggle. Primary channel may be left or right. A filterchain applies to all speakers - each is its own mpv. Has many script-messages. For mpv…

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waveform

Displays a waveform of the video in real-time.

BoxToWide

A simple mpv script to change 4:3 aspect-ratio of video files/streams to 16:9 automatically.

frame_info

Show frame info, similar to ffdshow's OSD.

live-filters

Add, remove or toggle ffmpeg video filters during mpv playback.

skiptosilence detuur

Skips to the next silence in the file.

filter-test

Test mpv/FFmpeg video filter(vf) strings with editable popup dialog.

cycle-denoise

Cycle between lavfi's denoise filters (press n)

delogo

Remove channel logo from videos.

afilter

Script for easy access to certain audio compressors and HRTF sofalizer in mpv with option to whitelist filters based on type of media.

if

A wayland VO patch and C plugin which forwards keyboard and mouse input to a headless compositor for playing 2D games with upscaling mpv user shaders.

chapter-make-read

Automatically read an load the namesake external chapter file with extension of CHP. Temporarily mark the current playback position as a chapter so you can seek to it later. Also allows writing current chapters as CHP or XML. Based on createchapter.

mpv360

Interactive 360° Video Viewer. With full camera control through mouse and keyboard inputs.

display-plugin

More display properties for mpv, support toggle Windows HDR.

Fast Catmull-Rom

Fast Catmull-Rom approximation using 5 samples by omitting corners.

thumbfast

High-performance on-the-fly thumbnailer for mpv.

autoloop

Automatically loops files that are under a given duration (default 5 seconds).

takeSsSequence

Take a sequence of equispaced screenshots.

clipshot

Screenshot the video (with subs, without subs or the whole window) and copy it to the clipboard. For Windows, Linux/BSD and MacOs

crop_script

Take cropped screenshots.

gif-generator

Creates animated gifs using hotkeys.

command_palette

Searchable menu for bindings, playlist, chapters, profiles, all tracks, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitle tracks, secondary subtitle tracks, subtitle lines, commands, properties, options, audio devices, Blu-ray titles, stream quality, aspect ratio, recent files.

waifu2x

Take screenshot and convert images with waifu2x.

webp-generator

Creates animated webp using mpv hotkeys. (Windows only)

image-config

A configuration to use mpv as an image viewer.

fastforward

Instead of skipping forward in media files, speed up the playback for a few seconds. Playback speed decays back to 1x after a few seconds. Tap rapidly or hold down to go faster.

gallery-dl-view

Load image galleries directly in mpv like gallery-dl_hook but with extra functionality like binding a key to download images, optionally only loading images that are new since the gallery was last opened, and more.

playlist-view

Display and navigate the playlist in a grid view of thumbnails.

image-viewer

Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer.

screenshot-mosaic

Create a mosaic/thumbnail image.

abs-screenshot

Uses Exiftool to get the "Date/Time Original" and saves a screenshot with the name being the actual time the video was taken.

sorted-screenshots

Sort screenshots based on the file they're screenshotted from and nested directories.

screenshotfolder

Place screenshots into folders for each video, along with timestamping them.

webp-avif-generator

Creates animated webp/avif using mpv A-B loop and FFmpeg. (Support Windows and Linux)

gallery-screenshots

In‑player tiled screenshot gallery that turns your screenshots into visual bookmarks for fast navigation. Click thumbnails to jump instantly. Export screenshots to contact sheets (PNG), CSV, and Excel table XLSX.

trim

Trim clips without transcoding.

easycrop

Cropping videos with ease.

videoclip

Create video and audio clips.

video-splice

Create a video out of cuts.

Pure

Get the file path, timestamps, and cropping coordinates for ffmpeg.

cut b1scoito

Video cutting/clipping/slicing script.

screenshotfolder

Place screenshots into folders for each video, along with timestamping them.

sub-bilingual

Generate bilingual subtitles.

slicing

Cut uncompressed fragments of the video.

slicing_copying

Cut fragments of video in original format.

excerpt

Allows you to quickly create excerpts from media files, you just have to set begin and end markers.

clipper

Quickly trim videos using ffmpeg within mpv.

cord

Discord integration for mpv, using the Game SDK instead of Discord RPC. Supports: MacOS and Windows. (Linux is not supported by Game SDK)

discordRPC

Discord Rich Presence integration.

discordRPC

Discord RPC integration for mpv using lua-discordRPC as base.

discord

A cross-platform Discord Rich Presence integration for mpv with no external dependencies. Consists of a Go binary for updating the presence and a Lua script for launching it.

mpv-rpc

Discord Rich Presence integration. Also displays cover art from MusicBrainz archive.

irc

Displays lines from an irc channel.

LoadDanmaku

Load local damaku files.

youtube-chat

Overlays YouTube chat on top of a video using yt-dlp.

twitch-chat-irc

Show Twitch chat messages as subtitles when watching Twitch LIVE.

twitch-chat

Show Twitch chat messages as subtitles when watching Twitch VOD with mpv.

persist-properties

Keep selected property values (like volume) between player sessions.

guess-media-title

Uses guessit to detect a media title by filename and set force-media-title variable. Useful for getting cleaner screenshot file names.

config-saver

Saves current audio track, subtitle track, subtitle position, etc. for all videos in the folder.

cycle-through-existing

Cycle through existing video/audio/subtitle tracks, skipping the "none" option.

multi-command-if

Very powerful conditional logic and multiple action engine for your keybindings, without having to write a single line of code!

celebi

An optimized script to restore properties from past sessions. Alternative to persist-properties and remember-props scripts.

show-conf-osd

Display configuration files on the OSD.

user-input

API to request text user input.

chapter-list

Interractive chapter-list menu.

M-x

Searchable and configurable menu to quickly find key bindings and commands.

osc-framework

OSC framework to help build your custom OSC.

webm

WebM converter based on MoonScript.

manager

Script and shader manager.

copyStuff

Copy to clipboard the filename or URL, full filename path, current video time, current displayed subtitle text, video duration/metadata.

copyTime

Copies the current time to the clipboard.

copy to music

Copies the current media file you're playing to a predefined directory, and plays the next entry in the playlist (Unix-like)

censor

Skip over parts of videos you don't want (others) to view

copy-permalink

Copy mpv --time=<current-position> <path-playing> to clipboard. Useful for sharing when playing URLs.

osc-show-hide

Toggles the on-screen controller with a hotkey.

cp-paste-URL

Fork of copy-paste-URL with support for Linux.

UndoRedo

Undo and Redo feature for mpv. If you seek/jump to a different time in the video, press undo [ctrl]+[z] to linearly undo the seeks/jumps in the video, and press redo [ctrl]+[y] to linearly return to previous undo positions. More details in the link above.

vr-reversal

View 3D side-by-side video as a 2D video, allows you to look around and zoom within the video, logs the head motions to a file for later rendering out to a 2D video with ffmpeg.

vo_battery

Choose the VO based on if the laptop is on battery or not.

show-stream-title

Show OSD stream/channel title when switching the IPTV channels from m3u playlist.

command_palette

Searchable menu for bindings, playlist, chapters, profiles, all tracks, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitle tracks, secondary subtitle tracks, subtitle lines, commands, properties, options, audio devices, Blu-ray titles, stream quality, aspect ratio, recent files.

i3-floating-centered

Show mpv window in the center of the display when it is in floating mode (i3wm)

ontop-window

Disables the ontop property when in fullscreen, and enables it again when in window mode, if it was disabled.

ontop-only-while-playing

Ontop is only active during video playback. Ontop is automatically disabled during idle, pause and is able to be dynamically disabled without having to restart unlike the previous script.

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

deframe

Removes the frame of YouTube videos.

scale-win

Restore old "window-scale" behavior, so to make "add window-scale +/-" keybinds work again when any of the autofit-* options are defined.

multi-command-if

Very powerful conditional logic and multiple action engine for your keybindings, without having to write a single line of code!

profile-cycle

Cycle between your custom defined profiles while watching the video.

open-kinopoisk-page

Opens the kinopoisk page that corresponds to the currently playing media file.

open-imdb-page

Opens the IMDb page that corresponds to the currently playing media file.

open-anilist-page

Opens the Anilist page that corresponds to the currently playing (anime) file.

oled-screensaver

To prevent burn-ins on OLED TVs, this script fades-in a black screen after 15 seconds when paused in fullscreen.

notify-send

A simpler and more recent notifications script for libnotify-compatible (i.e. Unix-like) notifications daemons only. Supports cover art.

notify

Adds desktop notifications to the mpv media player, which show metadata like artist, album name and track name when the track changes.

notify

Converging point for all forks of rohieb's notify scrip.

filter-test

Test mpv/FFmpeg video filter(vf) strings with editable popup dialog.

txt

Play text files using text-to-speech (TTS). (Works on Linux, MacOS).

pdf

View PDFs in mpv using ImageMagick. (for Linux, MacOS)

manga-reader

Script for using mpv as a manga reader.

redshift_toggle

Toggle redshift when loading a video file and when reaching the end of said file. Now also handles pause.

toggle-redshift-on-play

Toggle redshift when viewing videos with mpv.

toggle-redshift-on-play kill-restart-version

Toggle redshift when viewing videos with mpv.

inhibit_gnome

Prevent screen blanking on GNOME while content is playing

mpegts-truncate

Removes beginning of MPEG TS file up to current position without re-writing the whole file.

zones

Handles commands depending on where the mouse pointer is at, mostly for mouse wheel handling.

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kde-do-not-disturb

Disable the notifications while mpv is running

kde-night-color

Disable Night Color while mpv is running.

gnome-inhibit

Prevent the screen from blanking under GNOME+Wayland while a video is playing.

notify

Now-playing-desktop notifications.

taskbar-buttons

(Windows) Adds thumbbar buttons.

xscreensaver

(Linux) Disables XScreensaver while video playback is active, a replacement for heartbeat-cmd.

xfce-genmonify

Update a xfce4-panel genmon plugin that is set up with genmonify to display the currently playing media file and elpapsed or remaining time in xfce4-panel.

when-to-loop

Intelligently decide when mpv should loop, i.e. while shuffling or while playing a short file.

autoloop

Automatically loops files that are under a given duration (default 5 seconds).

seek-to

Seek to an absolute timestamp specified via keyboard input.

convert_script

Script to quickly convert and crop videos from within mpv, with a GUI.

composition guides

Overlay basic composition guides onto your video.

clipboard

Provides a set of generic commands to interact with the clipboard. Specifically it allows user to copy arbitrary text to the clipboard and provides the ability to paste the contents of the clipboard into other commands.

change-screen-by-aspect-ratio

Change the active fs-screen based on video's aspect ratio (for systems with monitors in landscape and portrait orientations).

mpvMatroska

mpvMatroska turns mpv into a Matroska player.

btime

Shows a shorter time format when seeking: 0:15 / 3:10, 08:20 / 55:00, 0:00:05 / 1:30:14.

debug-plugin

A debug tool for mpv script developers, with GUI support for properties and console.

user-data-loader

Allows the user-data property to be set at launch using config files and changed using profiles and script-opts during runtime.

lua-repl

A Lua REPL in the console with autocompletion and pretty-printing of returned tables. It lets you test mpv's and Lua's API without writing a script.

aspeed.lua

Multi-stereo speed randomization & tri-color clocks. Applies arbitrary speed formula & has chipmunk mode for left-channel. Also has double-mute insta-toggle. Primary channel may be left or right. A filterchain applies to all speakers - each is its own mpv. Has many script-messages. For mpv…

kodi hook

Allows Kodi streaming add-ons to work correctly when using mpv as an external player for Kodi by parsing and extracting protocol options from Kodi's custom URL format.

socket

Creates one IPC socket per mpv instance. Configurable. Socket name can be modified while playing.

trakt-scrobble

Connects trakt.tv with mpv and automatically scrobbles movies/shows.

anilist-updater

Automatically updates your AniList when reaching 80% completion based on the file name.

afilter

Script for easy access to certain audio compressors and HRTF sofalizer in mpv with option to whitelist filters based on type of media.

lines-meme-generator

Allow users to take screenshots in MPV, crop them to keep only the bottom portion, and stitch them together into a long vertical image, just like a meme of lines.

notification-osd

XDG desktop notification OSD plugin for track changes or media key playback control while the window is unfocused. Supports cover art and video thumbnail of the current time position.

Harmonoid

Cross-platform, based on Dart/Flutter.

Olivia

Linux cloud music player, based on C++/QT/Web.

vmn

Cross-platform CLI music player, based on C/TUI.

Stremio

Cross-platform, based on C++/QT.

Macast

DLNA Media Renderer. You can push videos, pictures or musics from your mobile phone to your computer, based on Python/Web.

jellyfin mpv shim

Jellyfin (Emby/Plex alternative) Client, based on Python.

Botflix/stream-cli

Command-line tool that combines scrapy and webtorrent for streaming movies, based on Python/TUI.

webtorrent-mpv-hook

Adds a hook that allows mpv to stream torrents using webtorrent.

ff2mpv

A Firefox/Chrome extension for playing URLs in mpv, based on PowerShel/Shell/Python/JavaScript.

plex-mpv-shim

Cast media from Plex Mobile and Web apps to MPV, based on Python.

play-with-mpv

Chrome extension for playing URLs in mpv, based on JavaScript/Python/Web.

qtube

Linux YouTube frontend, based on Python/QT.

TubiTui

Cross-platform YouTube client based on Rust/TUI.

DLNAmpvRenderer

Windows DLNA/UPnP renderer based on Python.

Plaincast

Unmaintained Linux server that acts like a lightweight/headless Chromecast that only includes YouTube, based on Golang.

orion

Unmaintained cross platform Twitch.tv client, based on C++/QT/QML.

lazy

Glow

dyphire

noelsimbolon

Awan

Natural-Harmonia-Gropius

qwerty12

DonCanjas

guess-media-title

Uses guessit to detect a media title by filename and set force-media-title variable. Useful for getting cleaner screenshot file names.

time

Shows the current time or the time at which playback will end.

Zabooby

tuilakhanh

Syncplay

Synchronize playback on mpv/VLC/MPC on many computers and chat with friends. Cross-platform, based on Python.

KikoPlay

Cross-platform Danmu player, based on C++/QT.

boram

Unmaintained cross-platform WebM converter, based on JavaScript/Web/Electron.

webm.py

Cross-platform command-line WebM converter, based on Python.

Anime4K

A series of shaders designed to scale and enhance anime. Includes shaders for line sharpening, artefact removal, denoising, upscaling, and more.

LumaSharpenHook

A sharpen filter similar to using Unsharp Mask in Photoshop ported from SweetFX shader pack.

SSimDownscaler, SSimSuperRes, Krig, Adaptive Sharpen, etc.

* SSimDownscaler: Perceptually based downscaler. SSimSuperRes: The aim of this shader is to make corrections to the image upscaled by mpv built-in scaler (removes ringing artifacts, restores original sharpness, etc). Krig: Chroma scaler that uses luma information for high quality upscaling.

skipchapters

Automatically skip chapters matching a given list of regular expressions (eg. "OP" or "Opening").

Film Grain v1

** and **Film Grain v2 - Two configurable shaders for applying gaussian-weighted white noise to the image. v2 is a smoothed version of v1, which uses an extra gaussian blur pass to shift the grain frequency spectrum. Both versions can trivially be adapted to add film grain to other channels…

nnedi3 and ravu

User shaders for prescaling.

acme-0.5x

Fastest 0.5x downscaler for mpv, useful for 4K video playback on FHD screen (bypass chroma upscaling and color conversion in 4K resolution).

lensfix

Fix radial distortion commonly found in wide angle action cameras.

hyperview

Dynamic stretching filter aiming to bring effects similar to GoPro SuperView.

FSRCNN

Prescaler based on layered convolutional networks.

un360

Converts equirectangular 360 degree video to be watchable, at a fixed perspective.

Nonlinear stretch

Non-linear stretch scaling. use with --no-keepaspect.

FidelityFX CAS

AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) provides a mixed ability to sharpen and optionally scale an image. The algorithm adjusts the amount of sharpening per pixel to target an even level of sharpness across the image. Areas of the input image that are already sharp are sharpened less,…

FidelityFX FSR

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is a spatial upscaler: it works by taking the current anti-aliased frame and upscaling it to display resolution without relying on other data such as frame history or motion vectors. At the heart of FSR is a cutting-edge algorithm that detects and recreates…

NVIDIA Image Scaling

NVIDIA Image Scaling is a spatial scaling and sharpening algorithm. The scaling algorithm uses a 6-tap scaling filter combined with 4 directional scaling and adaptive sharpening filters, which creates nice smooth images and sharp edges. In addition, an adaptive-directional sharpening-only…

Post upscale unsharp masking

This is mpvs original image sharpening algorithm ported into the shader, in order to work only after upscaling is done.

when-to-loop

Intelligently decide when mpv should loop, i.e. while shuffling or while playing a short file.

Alt Scale

An alternative to mpv's built in scaling. It can be slightly faster than built in scaling with equivalent quality.

Unsharp mask and Gaussian blur

A 2 pass unsharp mask and a 2 pass gaussian blur. Similar to those in Photoshop, Image Magick, Gimp, etc.

2D Image Resampling

2D Image Resampling is a general resampling algorithm made for experimental / testing use.

hdr-toys

Componentized Rec.2100 to Rec.709 conversion shader.

Jinc

Jinc based image scaling. Similar to mpv's ewa or polar.

NLS-Next

A nonlinear stretch shader and helper script for MPV, featuring bi-directional stretching and multiple tunable options.

Pixel Clipper

Simple anti-ringing filter based on pixel clipping/clamping.

JointBilateral & FastBilateral

Chroma upsamplers that use the luma plane as a guide to achieve sharper transitions without introducing any ringing.

btime

Shows a shorter time format when seeking: 0:15 / 3:10, 08:20 / 55:00, 0:00:05 / 1:30:14.

ArtCNN

Luma doublers trained on Manga109.

CuNNy

Cute and funny CNN-based upscaler optimized for anime.

AniSD ArtCNN

AniSD ArtCNN shader for standard definition anime content.

Snapdragon Game Super Resolution (GSR) v1

Snapdragon Game Super Resolution (GSR) v1 is a single-pass spatial upscaling technique originally developed by Qualcomm for mobile devices. It integrates upscaling and edge sharpening into one GPU shader pass, leveraging a 12-tap Lanczos-like scaling filter and an adaptive sharpening filter.

skipchapters

Automatically skip chapters matching a given list of regular expressions (eg. "OP" or "Opening").

vidcutter

Cross-platform video cutter/joiner, based on Python/QT.

tsv_edl.vim

Linux video editing with vim/spreadsheet/sed/python.

qimgv

Cross-platform, based on C++/QT.

https://www.google.com/search?q=external+application+launcher

https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

(Win) - Listary 的开源替代品，开发活跃插件众多，例如可调用 Everything 快速搜索文件、可自定义网络搜索引擎等。

https://github.com/stax76/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Favorites

https://albertlauncher.github.io

https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

X11 + Wayland - Window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement.

https://github.com/stax76/OpenWithPlusPlus

https://github.com/ikas-mc/ContextMenuForWindows11

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

mpv-mpris

On Linux allows controlling mpv using standard media keys.

lua-mpris

Adds mpris support to mpv.

simple-mpv-webui

Based on Python/Lua/JavaScript/Web.

KDE Connect

Enabling communication between all your devices.

GSConnect

Implementation of KDE Connect for GNOME.

mpv-remote-app

For Android, based on Java/Python.

mpv-remote-app

For Android, based on Vue.js/Ionic/Node.js.

MPVMediaControl

Windows 10 System Media Transport Controls (SMTC).

Helper scripts to compile mpv on Linux

Wiki

Lightweight command-line video player supporting wide format compatibility and advanced playback features.

mpv.net

Based on C#/WinForms/WPF.

Media Auto Build Suite (MABS)

crosscompile-mingw-tedious

python

Python interface.

py

Another Python interface.

mpv.d.ts

TypeScript definition file (JavaScript).

script

TypeScript definitions for builtin mp modules and globals.

mpv.d.ts

Another TypeScript definitions for mpv JavaScript API.

promise

Promise polyfill for mpv JavaScript runtime.

node

Node.js interface (JavaScript).

js

Embeddable player for Electron/NW.js (JavaScript).

assdraw

mpv assdraw module for JavaScript.

object pascal

Embeddable player for Object Pascal.

ruby

Ruby interface.

mpsm

mpsm is a mpv script manager, you can install scripts provided by mpsm-scripts, or install any script with added meta info via url.

Kit

MPVKit is a collection of tools to use mpv in iOS, macOS, tvOS applications. It includes scripts to build mpv native libraries.

install

Sets up file associations for mpv on Windows.

Memento

Cross-platform video player for studying Japanese, based on C++/QT.

blitzloop

Linux karaoke software, based on Python/OpenGL.

mpvQC

Cross-platform application for quality control of videos, based on Python/QT.

vidify

Cross-platform app that detects playing songs on your device and plays their music videos anywhere, based on Python.

Karaoke Mugen

Cross-platform karaoke management app, based on JavaScript/node.js/Web.

gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Prevent the display from turning off (Gnome doesn't support the idle-inhibit protocol on Wayland) and disable the 'night light' when a mpv window is in focus.

https://stax76.github.io/software-list