Homebrew Formulae: mpv

mpv

Install command:

brew install mpv

Media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2

License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later

Formula code: mpv.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

Current versions:

stable	✅	0.41.0
head	⚡️	HEAD

Revision: 8

Depends on:

ffmpeg	9.0.1	Play, record, convert, and stream select audio and video codecs
jpeg-turbo	3.2.0	JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
libarchive	3.8.9	Multi-format archive and compression library
libass	0.17.5	Subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA subtitle format
libbluray	1.5.0	Blu-Ray disc playback library for media players like VLC
libplacebo	7.360.1	Reusable library for GPU-accelerated image/video processing primitives
little-cms2	2.19	Color management engine supporting ICC profiles
luajit	2.1.1787165859	Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the Lua programming language
mujs	1.3.9	Embeddable Javascript interpreter
rubberband	4.0.0	Audio time stretcher tool and library
uchardet	0.0.8	Encoding detector library
vapoursynth	79	Video processing framework with simplicity in mind
vulkan-loader	1.4.357.0	Vulkan ICD Loader
yt-dlp	2026.8.19	Feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
zimg	3.0.6	Scaling, colorspace conversion, and dithering library
molten-vk	1.4.2	Implementation of the Vulkan graphics and compute API on top of Metal

Depends on when building from source:

docutils	0.23	Text processing system for reStructuredText
meson	1.12.0	Fast and user friendly build system
ninja	1.13.2	Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
pkgconf	3.0.5	Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

The global configuration directory is now $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/mpv/
You may need to migrate any data in previous $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/mpv/mpv/

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