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
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Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
v0.41.021 Dec 2025
Please See Official Changelog at github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases
Please See flatpak MPV Changelog at github.com/flathub/io.mpv.Mpv/commits/master
