mpv
A free, open source, and cross-platform media player
mpv is a command-line media player that supports a wide variety of file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. It features high-quality video output with OpenGL, Vulkan, and D3D11 support, hardware GPU decoding, and powerful scripting capabilities. It also exposes a C API for embedding into other applications.
mpv plays media files from the command line using hardware-accelerated decoding and high-quality rendering, with support for Lua/JavaScript scripting and a C API for integration.
power users, developers, and videophiles who want a lightweight and extensible media player
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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