Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

MPV has versatile scripts. For example you can cut and crop a video you are watching[1].

You can also introduce hotkeys for functionalities I have never seen in another player.

I use this (input.conf) sometimes to normalize the brightness and colors of a scene I'm watching (may not work when using hardware decoding):

    n vf toggle normalize=smoothing=100

Or rotate a video:

    Ctrl+r no-osd cycle-values video-rotate "90" "180" "270" "0"

[1] <https://github.com/occivink/mpv-scripts>

it also has a robust Lua scripting interface. I made a tool in Golang and Lua that allows Mpv to treat torrent files and magnet links as if they were http links. You can then stream a torrent directly.

People also don't realize that mpv not only has the ability to stream youtube videos but you can also search youtube on the CLI using mpv `mpv ytdl://ytsearch:query`

it can also play videos directly in the terminal using ascii, sixel or kitty image protocol (which is by far the highest quality)

Do you have an example?

> I made a tool in Golang and Lua that allows Mpv to treat torrent files and magnet links as if they were http links. You can then stream a torrent directly.

Increíble. Consider putting this up somewhere folks can find it.-

> it can also play videos directly in the terminal using ascii

Beats Star Wars over telnet :)

Not OP but also wrote a similar thing for mpv.

https://github.com/ftk/mpv-confluence/tree/torrserver

I personally use MPV to play my music libraries containing mainly FLAC file and I wrote a plugin [1] using JS to send my listens to listenbrainz.org . It's damn simple, but it worked for the past few months!

[1]: https://gist.github.com/madeindjs/f33225cf4d8fdc9f61e0fe3ebe...

There are lua hooks for play/pause/stop which is great for dimming room lights when the video starts.

it's crazy what you can do with its plugin scripts. MPV Android also supports them. I wrote one which turns off keyboard backlight and maxes brightness for HDR.

Also I'm using it to stream from Gerbera and to sync progress seamlessly between phone and PC.