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mpv

A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux and Android
  • Open source

Overview

mpv is a media player, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: playlists and subtitles.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “a free, open source, and cross-platform media player” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Drag and drop playlist” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “libass support for styled subtitles” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

mpv is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+ & LGPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Mpv is a movie 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. Features: Drag and drop playlist Loading external configuration files Flatpak: mpv-mpris support - multimedia keys play/pause support Flatpak: mpv.conf: Screenshots (shortcut key 's') are saved in ~/Pictures/mpv directory Flatpak: mpv config directory is ~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv Flatpak: mpv scripts directory is ~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv/scripts Flatpak: mpv_inhibit_gnome is included which prevents screen blanking in GNOME while playing media Flatpak: mpv scripts needs write access. Use flatseal app to set home or host write permission

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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