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)