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mpv is a media player

mpv is a media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Special input URL types are available to read input from a variety of sources other than disk files. Depending on platform, a variety of different video and audio output methods are supported.

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Making subtitles (.srt) bigger or smaller with mpv

How do I make subtitle appear larger or smaller with mpv ? The subtitles are in .srt format most of the times but sometimes also in the movie itself ? Is there a way to do that ? Also is there a default configuration variable that I could put so…
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Make mpv hold on the last picture instead of closing

If I watch a video with mpv, it closes after the video ends. How can I configure it such that it doesn't close, for example just freezes the last image of the movie, so that I can seek back and forth without restarting the video.
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Is it possible to continue movies from where one leaves in mpv as can be done in vlc?

I don't know how vlc is able to do it; I guess it takes sort of time-stamp of a movie and puts it in cache or somewhere like that. This is the way it works in vlc - a. You see a media file, say it consists of 1.5 hours, b. At some point, say after…
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Play subtitles automatically with mpv

Subtitle files come in a variety of formats, from .srt to .sub to .ass and so on and so forth. Is there a way to tell mpv to search for subtitle files alongwith the media files and if it does to start playing the file automatically. Currently I have…
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How to enable YouTube autoplay with youtube-dl & mpv?

Is there a way to play a video and make it follow YouTube autoplay videos? Can this be done with youtube-dl and/or mpv?
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MPV: how to get information about media being played through command line?

I want to get output containing info about title, state (playing/paused), current position, total time, etc., of the media currently being played in mpv. In mocp player for example it's easy: mocp -i provides output like this: State: PLAY File:…
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Play youtube playlist with youtube-dl with shuffling or repeat

I use mpv to play a youtube playlist, and it would be extremely cool if I could turn on shuffling and repeat. Is this possible to do with youtube-dl?
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mpv stepping through frames

When using mpv to step through frames (. for stepping forward and , for stepping backward), the forward stepping rate is much faster than the backward stepping rate. The forward rate is about the same as the video frame rate (60fps for the video in…
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Using MPV to play DVD movies

Beside VLC, very few dvd players have access to all DVD movie options, namely menus, and mpv is not one of them, but I use mpv to access external subtitles with DVDs and have started to appreciate very much this very simple and light and yet very…
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Stream Youtube with mpv starting at an arbitrary point later in the video

I prefer streaming Youtube videos via mpv, mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= However, for long videos sometimes the audio breaks down in the middle, leaving error messages like [ffmpeg] tls: Error in the pull function. Restarting…
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Is it possible to make keybindings for mpv to run shell scripts?

I'd like to change my webcam's exposure-time & gain... using something like v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c gain=15. As far I searched, the keybindings for mpv is located/configured at ~/.config/mpv/input.conf. However, I couldn't find anywhere on…
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how to select one audio track when multiple audio tracks are there in a media file using mpv?

I have had media files (video + audio) which have more than one audio track. Sharing an example below - $ mediainfo somefile.mkv General Unique ID : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Complete name :…
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Is it possible to tell mpv to act like subtitles don't exist

I am practicing Japanese, and as a practice tool, I sometimes want to watch anime without subtitles. I know I can turn off subtitles in mpv using hotkeys, and I am also aware of --sid=0; however, in both these situations, I am one hotkey away from…
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Make mpv display name of youtube link when playing just audio

When playing just the audio from a youtube link, you have some thing like this: mpv '' --no-video and when the song starts to play you have this on the terminal: AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch float A: 00:00:40 / 00:31:39 (2%) Cache:…
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mpv not using embedded fonts for subtitles

How it is supposed to look. How it looks. I can see in mpv's log that it does call for Murga, the right font embedded in the mkv file, but it ends up falling back to BitstreamVeraSans-Roman. [sub/ass] fontselect: (Murga, 400, 0) ->…
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