mpv

Install command:
brew install mpv

Media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2

https://mpv.io

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

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/mpv.json

Formula code: mpv.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 0.41.0
head ⚡️ HEAD

Revision: 6

Depends on:

ffmpeg 8.1.2 Play, record, convert, and stream select audio and video codecs
jpeg-turbo 3.1.4.1 JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
libarchive 3.8.7 Multi-format archive and compression library
libass 0.17.4 Subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA subtitle format
libbluray 1.4.1 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 2.1.1781602682 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 77 Video processing framework with simplicity in mind
vulkan-loader 1.4.350.1 Vulkan ICD Loader
yt-dlp 2026.6.9 Feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
zimg 3.0.6 Scaling, colorspace conversion, and dithering library
molten-vk 1.4.1 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 1.11.1 Fast and user friendly build system
ninja 1.13.2 Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Requires: Xcode (build)

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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mpv --HEAD 76
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mpv 10,892
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mpv 11
mpv --HEAD 5
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mpv 19,535
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