mpv is a free media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/archive/refs/tags/v0.37.0/mpv-0.37.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 54bd6864cc831f1fee6dee693a0421eb
Download size: 3.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 25 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
ALSA, FFmpeg-6.1.1, libass-0.17.1, libplacebo-6.338.2, Mesa-24.0.1, and PulseAudio-17.0
libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, libva-2.20.0, libvdpau-1.5, Lua-5.2.4, uchardet-0.0.8, and Vulkan-Loader-1.3.277
libdvdcss-1.4.3, libdvdread-6.1.3, libdvdnav-6.1.1, and libbluray
pipewire-1.0.3, SDL2-2.30.0, JACK, and OpenAL
Install mpv by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dx11=enabled \
.. &&
ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop
files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can
improve system performance and memory usage by updating
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To
perform the update you must have GTK+-3.24.41 installed
(for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.27 (for the
desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the
root user:
gtk-update-icon-cache -qtf /usr/share/icons/hicolor && update-desktop-database -q
-Dx11=enabled: allows
linking to the X11 libraries.
-Ddvdnav=enabled: enables support for
DVD playback.
-Dcdda=enabled: enables support for CD
Audio.
-Dsdl2=enabled: enables the usage of
SDL2 for audio and video output.