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mpv Audio and video A minimal, keyboard-driven media player that plays almost anything. pacman mpv mpv https://mpv.io/ https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

What it is

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.

mpv video.mkv

Why it's here

  • Fast and light. It opens instantly and gets out of the way.
  • Great from the terminal. Play a file, a folder or a stream with one command.

On CoreDesktop

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.