MPV

mpv is an audio and movie player based on mplayer and mplayer2. it supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

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mpv is an audio and movie player based on mplayer and mplayer2. it supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. it shares some features with the former projects while introducing many more.

* streamlined cli optionsmplayer's options parser was improved to behave more like other cli programs, and many option names and semantics were reworked to make them more intuitive and memorable. * on screen controllerwhile mpv has no official gui, it has a small controller that is triggered by mouse movement. * high quality video outputmpv has an opengl based video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, and more. * gpu video decodingmpv leverages the ffmpeg hwaccel apis to support vdpau, vaapi, dxva2, vda and videotoolbox video decoding acceleration. * embeddablea straightforward c api was designed from the ground up to make mpv usable as a library and facilitate easy integration into other applications.

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Minimalistic Lightweight Drag n drop Lua scripting Command line interface Integrated codecs

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The Best MPV alternatives for Minimalistic, from Lightweight to a Drag n drop.
Alternatives in MPV for Mac OS X, Windows, Web, Chrome, Linux, mpv, Windows Mobile, Android, Android Tablet, iPhone. This list contains a total of 48 applications similar to MPV.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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The Best 48 MPV Alternatives

5KPlayer

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ExMplayer

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