For questions involving mpv, a media player based on MPlayer.
mpv is a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player based on mplayer.
Questions tagged [mpv]
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How to infinite loop every video I play as defaut on MPV player without having to press shift+L hotkey every single time?
I think the title is clear without filling the body.
Every time I play new video the inf loop is gone and I need to press shift+L again each time. How to just make this my default setting. As far as I know there is no configuration in this program.…
galih_ken
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Save video playing in mpv --ytdl to a file while playing
I would like to be able to play and save a video with mpv --ytdl. How do I got about doing that? What's particularly important is that the buffer gets saved too.
Basically, I would like to play a video from youtube, then quit mpv and still be able…
PawkyPenguin
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How can I make mpv show the duration counter constantly?
I use the mpv video player in Linux. With the keys Shift+P, I can see the duration of the video I am watching.
How can I set mpv to show the duration all the time (without the need of pressing Shift+P) ?
Linux-Leo
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mpv: how to play a list of URLs piped from stdin
Is there a way to get mpv to play a list of URLs that are piped from another command's stdout?
My use case is to play all media links from an HTML page, e.g. with something like this:
extractlinks.py http://example.com '*.mp3' | mpv
extractlinks.py…
ccpizza
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How can I change playback speed of mpv video player?
I love mpv player for it's modern minimalist look, easy moving along a video simply with mouse scroll and robust rendering of .mp4 videos.
However I could not figure out how to change playback speed as I can do easily in vlc playback menu. I simply…
Karlom
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How to disable the mouse wheel scrolling in mpv?
The wheel has eventually become "loose" with all mice I've owned and can be scrolled by accident. In mpv the wheel controls the video position.
from the documentation:
WHEEL_*
Mouse wheels (typically).
user1115987
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How to play YouTube videos with MPV subtitles?
How to play YouTube video with MPV with subtitles?
Porcupine
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How to toggle --loop-playlist on/off within a running instance of mpv?
If I'm playing a list of files in mpv (just as a directory), how do I toggle on/off its repeating the playing of the list/directory?
I know I can specify this when I launch mpv with --loop-playlist, which is great, but I want to know how to do it…
Brōtsyorfuzthrāx
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null bytes in .mkv file
I recently downloaded a movie (.mkv), it works perfectly on VLC Android, but after I moved it to my computer (with adb), mpv could not run it (Failed to recognize file format), nor parole (GStreamer backend error: Could not determine the type of…
WMunn
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mpv: How to play audio with SRT subtitles?
Is there a way to get mpv to display external .srt subtitles with audio files?
In vlc this can be achieved by enabling Audio > Visualizations > Spectrometer, and then in advanced Settings under Audio > Visualizations > Visualizer removing all the…
ccpizza
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How do I stop SMPlayer from using volume buttons?
My question is almost exactly the same as this one, except that I am asking in reference to using SMPlayer, not VLC.
When I press the volume buttons on my keyboard usually the system volume is changed, however when SMPlayer has focus the volume…
Kalamalka Kid
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How to make mpv use the pulseaudio volume controls again?
Since some recent update (mpv 0.18.something), mpv has stopped using the pulseaudio volume and instead used a software volume control.
This has downsides such as additional processing, but most importantly, the volume is not saved across mpv…
Jonas Schäfer
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xdg-open opens *.webm files in Firefox despite of the association video/* mime type with MPV
xdg-open opens .webm files in Firefox despite of the association video/ mime type with MPV.
Contents of the files I suppose to be relevant:
~/.config/mimetypes.list:
[Default…
ikigai
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mpv: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
System:
Linux 6.1.21-1-MANJARO
After updating/upgrading my system, mpv no longer works. It seems ffmpeg is using libavcodec 60 and mpv is using 59. Though I'm not 100% sure this is the issue. Any help would be appreciated.
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How to Add New MPV Speed Shortcuts on Already Existing Shortcuts
Out of the box, MPV's shortcuts for speeding are [/] and {/}, however, in order to be more consistent with the rest of software I have here, I would like for [/] to also be assigned to s/d.
How could I do that within mpv.conf?
I've tried this:
d…
psygo
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