mpv

Multimedia player. Also plays streams (.m3u url's)
MPV home

Playing

Local mp3 file

mpv --audio-device=alsa/plughw:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0 /home/user/somefile.mp3
mpv pulse/alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.0.analog-stereo /home/user/somefile.mp3

Audio CD

mpv cdda:///dev/cdrom --cdrom-device=/dev/cdrom
mpv cdda:////dev/dvd

Stream

With volume settings

mpv -volume 30 http://someIPnumber:80/

Without video output

mpv --vo null --volume 30 http://somestreamURL:80/

Keybindings

Keybinding page

Key	Function	Remark
Playback
p / Space	Pause (pressing again unpauses).
Pause	Pause.¹⁾
/ / *	Decrease / increase volume.
9 / 0	Decrease / increase volume.
m	Mute / unmute sound.
q	Stop playing and quit the program.
Q	Like q, but store the current playback position. Playing the same file later will resume at the old playback position if possible.
Stop	Stop playing and quit.²⁾
Seek
Shift+ Left / Right	1 second exact seek. (see --hr-seek).
Left / Right	Seek backward / forward 5 seconds. (see --hr-seek).
Shift+ Up / Down	5 second exact seek. (see --hr-seek).
Up / Down	Seek forward / backward 1 minute.
Previous / Next	Seek backward / forward 1 minute.³⁾
Shift+Page Up / Down	Seek backward or forward by 10 minutes. (This used to be mapped to Page Up / Page Down without Shift.)
Page Up / Page Down	Seek to the beginning of the previous / next chapter. In most cases, “previous” will actually go to the beginning of the current chapter; see --chapter-seek-threshold.
l	Set / clear A-B loop points. See ab-loop command for details.
L	Toggle infinite looping.
Shift + Backspace	Undo the last seek. This works only if the playlist entry was not changed. Hitting it a second time will go back to the original position. See revert-seek command for details.
Shift+Ctrl + Backspace	Mark the current position. This will then be used by Shift+Backspace as revert position (once you seek back, the marker will be reset). You can use this to seek around in the file and then return to the exact position where you left off.
.	Step forward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press will play one frame and then go into pause mode again.	Does not seem to work.
,	Step backward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press will play one frame in reverse and then go into pause mode again.	Does not seem to work.
Speed
Backspace	Reset playback speed to normal.
[ / ]	Decrease / increase current playback speed by 10%.
{ / }	Halve / double current playback speed.
Subtitles
Ctrl + Left / Right	Seek to the previous / next subtitle. Subject to some restrictions and might not always work; see sub-seek command.
Ctrl+Shift + Left / Right	Adjust subtitle delay so that the next or previous subtitle is displayed now. This is especially useful to sync subtitles to audio.
Playlist
< / >	Go backward / forward in the playlist.
ENTER	Go forward in the playlist.
#	Cycle through the available audio tracks.
Video
_	Cycle through the available video tracks.
f	Toggle fullscreen (see also --fs).
Esc	Exit fullscreen mode.
T	Toggle stay-on-top (see also --ontop).
w / W	Decrease / increase pan-and-scan range. The e key does the same as W currently, but use is discouraged.
o (also P)	Show progression bar, elapsed time and total duration on the OSD.
O	Toggle OSD states between normal and playback time/duration.
v	Toggle subtitle visibility.
j and J	Cycle through the available subtitles.
z and Z	Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds. The x key does the same as Z currently, but use is discouraged.
Ctrl + and Ctrl -	Adjust audio delay (A/V sync) by +/- 0.1 seconds.
u	Switch between applying no style overrides to SSA/ASS subtitles, and overriding them almost completely with the normal subtitle style. See --sub-ass-override for more info.
V	Toggle subtitle VSFilter aspect compatibility mode. See --sub-ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat for more info.
r and R	Move subtitles up/down. The t key does the same as R currently, but use is discouraged.
s	Take a screenshot.
S	Take a screenshot, without subtitles. (Whether this works depends on VO driver support.)
Ctrl s	Take a screenshot, as the window shows it (with subtitles, OSD, and scaled video).
d	Activate / deactivate deinterlacer.
A	Cycle aspect ratio override.
Ctrl h	Toggle hardware video decoding on / off.
Alt+ Left / Right, Alt+ Up / Down	Move the video rectangle (panning).
Alt + / -	Combining Alt with the + or - keys changes video zoom.
Alt+ Backspace	Reset the pan/zoom settings.
F8	Show the playlist and the current position in it (useful only if a UI window is used, broken on the terminal).
F9	Show the list of audio and subtitle streams (useful only if a UI window is used, broken on the terminal).
1 / 2	Adjust contrast.⁴⁾
3 / 4	Adjust brightness.⁵⁾
5 / 6	Adjust gamma.⁶⁾
7 / 8	Adjust saturation.⁷⁾
Alt+ 0	Resize video window to half its original size.⁸⁾	Is 'command + 0' on OSX
Alt+ 1	Resize video window to its original size.⁹⁾	Is 'command + 1' on OSX
Alt+ 2	Resize video window to double its original size.¹⁰⁾	and 'command + 2' on OSX)
		command + f (OSX only)¹¹⁾ Toggle fullscreen (see also --fs).

If you miss some older key bindings, look at etc/restore-old-bindings.conf in the mpv git repository.

Issues

No sound

When there is no sound do

mpv --audio-device=help (list audio devices)
mpv --audio-device=[test all items from the list] someaudiofile.mp3 (the default is auto)
Add the found device to /etc/mpv/mpv.conf in the format audio-device=[the found audio device]
Do a test: mpv someaudiofile.mp3

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¹⁾ , ²⁾ , ³⁾

Only valid if you have a keyboard with multimedia keys.

⁴⁾ , ⁵⁾ , ⁶⁾ , ⁷⁾ , ⁸⁾ , ⁹⁾ , ¹⁰⁾ , ¹¹⁾

Only valid when using a video output that supports the corresponding adjustment.

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