mpv is a free media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/archive/refs/tags/v0.37.0/mpv-0.37.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 54bd6864cc831f1fee6dee693a0421eb
Download size: 3.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 25 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
ALSA-1.2.7, FFmpeg-6.1.1, libass-0.17.1, libplacebo-6.338.1, Mesa-23.3.3, and PulseAudio-17.0
libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, libva-2.20.0, libvdpau-1.5, Lua-5.2.4, uchardet-0.0.8, and Vulkan-Loader-1.3.275
libdvdcss-1.4.3, libdvdread-6.1.3, libdvdnav-6.1.1, and libbluray
pipewire-1.0.1, SDL2-2.28.5, JACK, and OpenAL
Install mpv by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dx11=enabled \ .. && ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install
This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor
hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications
hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme
and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
. To perform the update you must have GTK+-3.24.40 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.27 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root
user:
gtk-update-icon-cache -qtf /usr/share/icons/hicolor && update-desktop-database -q
-Dx11=enabled
: allows linking to the X11 libraries.
-Ddvdnav=enabled
: enables support for DVD playback.
-Dcdda=enabled
: enables support for CD Audio.
-Dsdl2=enabled
: enables the usage of SDL2 for audio and video output.