mpv - a free, open source, and cross-platform media player - Built for flatpak

Information for Users

Installation

Follow this guide to install flatpak and setup the flathub repository.

You can then install mpv various ways:

By visiting https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.mpv.Mpv and clicking install, this will open Discover, Gnome Software or another GUI package installation program.

By using a GUI package installation program like Discover or Gnome Software, search for mpv and click install.

By using a command line interface:

Install only for your user: flatpak --user install io.mpv.Mpv

Install systemwide: flatpak install io.mpv.Mpv

Running

From a command line:

flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv

You can also create an alias by running the following command:

echo "alias mpv='flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv'" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Then you can use the command mpv in a terminal.

Another method is creating an executable shell script called mpv inside of your path with the following:

echo '
    #!/bin/sh
    flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv "$@"
' > mpv

Make it executable with chmod +x mpv

Information for Developers / Testers

io.mpv.Mpv.appdata.xml

The date and version are automatically updated when building mpv.

Building from source

If you want to test changes to the io.mpv.Mpv.yml file you can build this repository from source.

Install flatpak-builder using your package manager. If it's not available, install it through flatpak: flatpak install flathub org.flatpak.Builder

Download the SDK used by io.mpv.Mpv.yml (see the file for the current version):

flatpak --user install flathub org.freedesktop.Platform//22.08 org.freedesktop.Sdk//22.08

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/flathub/io.mpv.Mpv.git

cd io.mpv.Mpv

Build and install the project:

flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean build-dir io.mpv.Mpv.yml

If you're testing changes and don't want to recheck any of the remote sources:

flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean --disable-download build-dir io.mpv.Mpv.yml

Locally testing the x-checker-data

Install flatpak-external-data-checker:

flatpak install --from https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.flathub.flatpak-external-data-checker.flatpakref

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/flathub/io.mpv.Mpv.git

Run flatpak-external-data-checker:

flatpak run --filesystem="$(realpath io.mpv.Mpv)" org.flathub.flatpak-external-data-checker io.mpv.Mpv/io.mpv.Mpv.yml

If you run into errors and want more verbose output, append the -v flag:

flatpak run --filesystem="$(realpath io.mpv.Mpv)" org.flathub.flatpak-external-data-checker io.mpv.Mpv/io.mpv.Mpv.yml -v

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