installation reference bug reports community mpv a free, open source, and cross-platform media player overview mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. it supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. scripting powerful scripting capabilities can make the player do almost anything. there is a large selection of user scripts on the wiki. on screen controller while mpv strives for minimalism and provides no real gui, it has a small controller on top of the video for basic control. high quality video output mpv has an opengl, vulkan, and d3d11 based video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, hdr