MPV

MPV is a free, lightweight cross-platform media player. Supports many media formats and subtitles.

Информация

Для лучшей интеграции со средой GNOME можно воспользоваться альтернативным интерфейсом MPV — Celluloid.

Installation from repository

MPV can be installed in any familiar and convenient way:

Install via GNOME Software

In three clicks 😊

Follow the link install MPV and confirm the “open application” operation in the browser. The Application Center will open, select the source "Sisyphus" in it, and click the "download" button

Installation via terminal

apt-get

su -
apt-get update
apt-get install mpv

epm

epm -i mpv

Installation using Flatpak

If you have the Flatpak package, you can install MPV with one command:

flatpak install flathub io.mpv.Mpv

Or using the GNOME Software 🤔

Follow the link to install MPV, then confirm the "open application" operation in the browser. After this, the Application Center will open, select the source "Flathub" in it and click the "download" button

Problems with video slowdown

When watching some videos, especially 4K, the video stream may slow down, while the audio track plays without delay. There are two options to get out of this situation.

1. Using the fast profile: to do this, you need to run the utility in the terminal using the desired profile

mpv --profile=fast video.mp4

2. Using hardware decoding: to do this, in the settings file mpv.conf you need to specify the values ​​for the parameters hwdec and vo. Here are the recommended settings depending on the session

hwdec=vaapi
vo=gpu-next

Problems with going to sleep when watching a video

There are two solutions to solve this problem:

1. Simpler and preferred solution

Install the extension for GNOME - Caffeine

apt-get

su -
apt-get update
apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

epm

epm -i gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Then you need to restart the session and remember to enable Caffeine

2. In a Xorg session, adding one option to mpv.conf should be enough

stop-screensaver

In a Wayland session it is more difficult, given that MPV does not fully support Wayland, the above option will not work.

The video needs to be launched taking into account gnome-session-inhibit

gnome-session-inhibit mpv video.mp4

To do this, you can either directly specify this when calling (as written above), or edit the Exec value in /usr/share/applications/mpv.desktop: before mpv specify gnome-session-inhibit

Alternative

As an alternative, you can use a player with a graphical interface built on MPV - Celluloid.