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mpv is a media player

mpv is a media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Special input URL types are available to read input from a variety of sources other than disk files. Depending on platform, a variety of different video and audio output methods are supported.

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Making subtitles (.srt) bigger or smaller with mpv

How do I make subtitle appear larger or smaller with mpv ? The subtitles are in .srt format most of the times but sometimes also in the movie itself ? Is there a way to do that ? Also is there a default configuration variable that I could put so…
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Make mpv hold on the last picture instead of closing

If I watch a video with mpv, it closes after the video ends. How can I configure it such that it doesn't close, for example just freezes the last image of the movie, so that I can seek back and forth without restarting the video.
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MPV: how to get information about media being played through command line?

I want to get output containing info about title, state (playing/paused), current position, total time, etc., of the media currently being played in mpv. In mocp player for example it's easy: mocp -i provides output like this: State: PLAY File:…
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How to get the old pseudo-gui of mpv video player?

The default "pseudo-gui" of the MPV video player after version 0.21. Old look: new look: The most striking change is the absence of the buttons for a 10 seconds back-forth seek. I suppose they removed those because the mouse wheel is the default…
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In mpv, how can I start playback at a random moment of a playlist?

In mpv, there's the --start switch, which allows me to provide a number of seconds to skip. This way I can start playback at a random moment in a single file. And there's --shuffle which allows me to start playback at a random file within a given…
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mpv freezing with "stream suspended"

mpv 0.35.1-dirty Copyright © 2000-2023 6.3.1-arch1-1 MPV has been working well until the external disk became unplugged. After replugging and remounting, MPV will not play. It starts the video (mkv) and then stops with this error. VLC plays…
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mpv subtitle font

I have looked in mpv.conf and in input.conf and don't see any setting for subtitle font. I see size but not font name. However I see that it must be a configurable value because I have mpv running on two different machines and see they are different…
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How can I control mpv in command line?

How can I control mpv in command line? Like is there a mpv next/prev command that I can use to play next or previous media file?
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MPV | Is it possible start mpv with the last quit file or playlist already loaded

I Use Shift+Q to quit mpv so that the next time I play it, it will start from when I left. But I should first go to that folder and select the file (mpv file.mpv) or files (mpv *.mp4) Is it possible to give some option to mpv while starting so that…
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How to show lyrics embedded in mp3 file?

My music collection has lyrics saved in mp3 files in lyrics-eng tag. Sometimes I want to see them when playing . How can I get that functionality? show-text command might help , but I don't know how to show value of an mp3 tag. l show-text…
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reduce audio quality in mpv

I have very limited data in a remote area and so I listen to youtube (and other video platforms) using mpv --no-video . Does anyone know how to lower the audio quality so that I can reduce my streaming data usage even more? (most of what i…
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Play two videos in sync frame by frame with different starting positions

I want to compare two videos (with different resolutions) and want to go though both videos frame by frame (forward and backward) in sync. I managed to do so using mpv somevideo720.mkv --external-file=somevideo1080.mkv --lavfi-complex='[vid1]…
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mpv playlist of a directory - only add 5 most recent movies to playlist (creation date)

I try to create a mpv playlist with 5 most recent movies in a specific folder - add to playlist (creation date). Not successful ❌ was those commands: mpv --playlist | ls -lrt1 /home/Georgette/Downloads/Bridgerton | tail -n 5 mpv --playlist=$(ls…
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