mpv is a free media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/archive/v0.39.0/mpv-0.39.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: a004bb1532bdaba8f19a488a27f41253
Download size: 3.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
alsa-lib-1.2.13, FFmpeg-7.1, libass-0.17.3, libplacebo-7.349.0, Mesa-24.3.4, and PulseAudio-17.0
libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, libva-2.22.0, libvdpau-1.5, luajit-20250212, uchardet-0.0.8, and Vulkan-Loader-1.4.304
libdvdcss-1.4.3, libdvdread-6.1.3, libdvdnav-6.1.1, and libbluray
pipewire-1.2.7, SDL2-2.30.11, JACK, and OpenAL
Add a fix to build with FFMpeg > 7.0
sed -i 's/AV_OPT_TYPE_CHANNEL_LAYOUT/AV_OPT_TYPE_CHLAYOUT/' filters/f_lavfi.c
Install mpv by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D x11=enabled \
.. &&
ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop
files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can
improve system performance and memory usage by updating
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To
perform the update you must have GTK-3.24.48 installed
(for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.28 (for the
desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the
root user:
gtk-update-icon-cache -qtf /usr/share/icons/hicolor && update-desktop-database -q
-D x11=enabled: allows
linking to the X11 libraries.
-D dvdnav=enabled: enables support for
DVD playback.
-D cdda=enabled: enables support for CD
Audio.
-D sdl2=enabled: enables the usage of
SDL2 for audio and video output.