mpv config

Overview

mpv is a free (as in freedom and free beer), open-source, and cross-platform media player. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

This repo contains my personal mpv configurations and scripts that I use and are significantly better than default mpv, VLC, and MPC. Before installing, please take your time to read this whole README as common issues can be easily solved by simply reading carefully.

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Installation

Windows

Here are the steps to install mpv and to use my configuration files on Windows:

• Download the latest 64bit mpv Windows build by shinchiro from mpv.io/installation or directly from here and extract it wherever you please. This is now your mpv folder
• Run mpv-install.bat, which is located in installer folder, with administrator priviledges by right-clicking and selecting Run as administrator
• Download the mpv-config-windows.zip file from this repo's latest release and extract it to your mpv folder. Make sure the configuration folder name is portable_config (this is important) and is located at the same directory as mpv.exe
• To make some scripts work, you need to modify them from the release a little bit:
  • In order for the mpv-gif.lua script to work, it requires FFmpeg with libass enabled and accessible via terminal. See the installation instructions from the script's source repository for further info.
  • (Optional) By default, the mpv-gif.lua script saves GIFs to C:/Program Files/mpv/gifs. To modify this, open gif.conf, which is located in portable_config/script-opts folder, with a text editor and specify the dir, which is output directory for GIFs, as you please. For example dir="C:/Users/USERNAME/Pictures/mpv-gifs".
• (Optional) Make your own mpv configuration. You can do that by modifying my configuration files and/or making your own from scratch or modifying others' configurations. Check out the useful links section for mpv configuration guides.
• You're all set up. Go watch some videos!

Linux

Here are the steps to install mpv and to use my configuration files on Linux:

• Install mpv and xclip (clipboard CLI interface) using the package manager that comes with your Linux distribution. xclip is needed for copy-time.lua and seek-to.lua scripts to work properly. The package name for mpv and xclip might also vary depending on your Linux distribution. Here, I will make Arch Linux, that comes with pacman as its package manager, as an example

  sudo pacman -S mpv xclip
  

  If you, for example, use Fedora Linux, that comes with dnf as its package manager, you can install mpv and xclip with the following command instead.

  sudo dnf install mpv xclip
  

  If you use other Linux distributions, please refer to the documentation of your Linux distribution's package manager on how to install packages.

• Download the mpv-config-linux.zip file from this repo's latest release and extract it to your standard mpv configuration directory which is ~/.config/mpv

• To make some scripts work, you need to modify them from the release a little bit:

  • In order for the mpv-gif.lua script to work, it requires FFmpeg with libass enabled and accessible via terminal. See the installation instructions from the script's source repository for further info.
  • (Optional) By default, the mpv-gif.lua script saves GIFs to ~/Videos/mpv-gifs. To modify this, open gif.conf, which is located in portable_config/script-opts folder, with a text editor and specify the dir, which is output directory for GIFs, as you please. For example dir="~/Videos".

• (Optional) Make your own mpv configuration. You can do that by modifying my configuration files and/or making your own from scratch or modifying others' configurations. Check out the useful links section for mpv configuration guides.

• You're all set up. Go watch some videos!

Scripts

Scripts used:

• audio-visualizer.lua — source
  Various audio visualization. It only works if you open audio files.

• autoload.lua — source
  Automatically load playlist entries before and after the currently playing file, by scanning the directory.

• copy-time.lua — source
  Copies current timecode in HH:MM:SS.MS format to clipboard. Cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux).

• cycle-commands.lua — source
  Cycles through a series of commands on a keypress. Each iteration of the cycle can contain as many commands as one wants. Syntax details are at the top of the file.

• cycle-profile.lua — source
  Cycles through a list of profiles sent via a script message and prints the profile-desc to the OSD. More details at the top of the file.

• mordenx.lua — source
  A modern OSC UI replacement for MPV that retains the functionality of the default OSC.

• mpv-gif.lua — source
  Script to generate GIFs from video playback. Requires FFmpeg with libass enabled. The exporting GIFs with subtitled currently doesn't work properly.

• playlistmanager.lua — source
  Allows you to see and interact with your paylist in an intuitive way.

• seek-to.lua — source
  Seek to an absolute timestamp specified via keyboard input or pasted from clipboard.

• sponsorblock-minimal.lua — source
  Skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.

• thumbfast.lua — source
  High-performance on-the-fly thumbnailer for mpv. The script does not display thumbnails on its own, it is meant to be used alongside a UI script that calls thumbfast.

Configuration files for these scripts can be found in the script-opts folder. I also modified some of these scripts' default keybindings. To see my modifications, look for script keybindings in input.conf.

Shaders

The shaders included in the shaders folder:

• FSRCNNX_x2_16-0-4-1 — source
  Used for luma upscaling.

• nnedi3-nns256-win8x4 — source
  Used for luma upscaling.

• nnedi3-nns128-win8x4 — source
  Used for luma upscaling.

• SSimDownscaler — source
  Used for luma downscaling.

• KrigBilateral — source
  Used for chroma upscaling and downscaling.

Use shaders based on your preference and system capabilities. For more info about shaders, read the resources in the useful links section.

Useful Links

• mpv manual
  Extremely useful for knowing what certain options do and what to put in mpv.conf
• mpv User Scripts
  Compilation of useful community-published scripts to be used with mpv
• mpv.conf guide by iamscum
  I personally recommend this one over Kokomins'
• mpv Configuration Guide for Watching Videos by Kokomins
• Mathematically Evaluating mpv's Upscaling Algorithms by João Vitor Chrisóstomo

Official Links

• mpv homepage
• mpv wiki
• mpv FAQ
• mpv manual

To Do

• Create a branch for configurations to be used in linux-based machines