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title: "mpv"
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category: "Audio and video"
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tagline: "A minimal, keyboard-driven media player that plays almost anything."
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source: "pacman"
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package: "mpv"
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command: "mpv"
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website: "https://mpv.io/"
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code: "https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv"
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---
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## What it is
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mpv is an open-source media player with almost no interface: a window with your video and a small on-screen controller. It's controlled from the keyboard, plays nearly every format, uses hardware decoding, and can be configured and scripted through plain text files and Lua. Given a URL, it can play online video through yt-dlp when that's installed.
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```
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mpv video.mkv
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```
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## Why it's here
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- **Fast and light.** It opens instantly and gets out of the way.
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- **Great from the terminal.** Play a file, a folder or a stream with one command.
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## On CoreDesktop
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CoreDesktop installs mpv from pacman. Open it from the app grid, run `mpv` with a file, or drop a file on its window. `update` keeps it current with the rest of the pacman packages.
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