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 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) ?
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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).
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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…
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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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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…
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mpv volume controls via keyboard or mouse under macos?
I'm using mpv version 0.33.1 under macos Big Sur (version 11.6.1).
It works pretty well, except I cannot figure out how to use the keyboard or the mouse to change the volume while a video is playing. There is a small volume icon at the right side of…
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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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Default video app keeps resetting from MPV on MacOS
The Problem
I use the mpv video player to play all videos on my mac, though I also have VLC installed. The problem is that after a while my default video application changes to VLC (and/or Quicktime, depending on the file type/extension) without any…
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Where is located on Mac the mpv player configuration file?
This excellent player works on Mac, but while in Linux I can set shortkeys and such in ~/.config/mpv/input.conf, I don`t know where that is on a Mac.
user162573
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Improve pitch shift
I've been watching videos using mpv, a derivative of MPlayer, using the default options. When I increase the speed, pitch-shift kicks in so that while people sound like they're speaking faster, they aren't squeaky and hard to understand like they're…
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