mpv-player/mpv

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🎥 Command line media player

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Dominant language: C
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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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1,013 open issues indexed

ao_pipewire: mpv hangs on quit after a second "loadfile replace" when the video output fails to initialize (ao thread spins in epoll_wait on a closed fd) Open

os:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18498 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Regression: `--background=tiles` shows solid black instead of checkerboard on `vo=gpu-next` (works fine on `vo=gpu`) Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18496 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
[partially_]seekable property isn't reliable Open

os:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mpv-player/mpv#18493 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Stereo 3D layout signalled in the stream (H.264 frame packing SEI, MP4 st3d) is ignored Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

mpv-player/mpv#18489 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Add --sub-sdr-peak for independent SDR subtitle luminance Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

mpv-player/mpv#18487 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
`--demuxer-hysteresis-bytes` option will force caching to be enabled Open

os:win

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

mpv-player/mpv#18484 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Blu-ray menu navigation: external ASS subtitles become desynchronized; suspect disc timestamp rebasing Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18481 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Some `OSD` Info cannot be quickly closed via `ESC` Open

os:mac

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

mpv-player/mpv#18479 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
WEB PAGE LINKS INSTALLATION no anchor references Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

mpv-player/mpv#18464 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Bring --drm-vrr-enabled to Windows Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mpv-player/mpv#18462 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 8, 2026
ao_avfoundation: tail of every file is dropped at EOF (buffered audio never drained) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

mpv-player/mpv#18461 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Most (maybe all) HDR playback fails using gpu or gpu-next, works robustly using libmpv Open

os:mac

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mpv-player/mpv#18445 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2026
When setting a video to 5.00 speed, then going onwards frame-by-frame; audio plays at 5x Open

os:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18441 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
When setting the video to high speeds, then going back to 1.00, the video skips a few seconds Open

os:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

mpv-player/mpv#18440 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Load previous segments of the video when going backwards frame-by-frame Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mpv-player/mpv#18439 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2026
In short videos, dragging the progress bar causes it to jitter Open

os:linux

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

mpv-player/mpv#18438 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Taking a screenshot while dragging MPV's progress bar causes the dragging to stop working Open

os:linux

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

mpv-player/mpv#18437 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Can't go back frame-by-frame in downloaded Twitch VoDs Open

os:linux

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18436 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Glitchy playback with hardware acceleration (AV1 only) Open

os:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mpv-player/mpv#18430 · Opened Aug 30, 2026
"Audio device underrun detected" causing dropped frames Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mpv-player/mpv#18428 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 30, 2026
When playing Blu-ray/DVD, the disc menu cannot be displayed correctly Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mpv-player/mpv#18423 · 15 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Corrupted mastering display primaries (degenerate gamut) cause severe color/luma distortion Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18417 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Switching audio devices from macOS causes dropped frames when using AVFoundation Open

os:mac

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mpv-player/mpv#18412 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Pick forced subs for audio tagged as multiple languages Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mpv-player/mpv#18411 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Add new fixed parameter combinations for resampling algorithm Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18401 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
The Arabic translation format shows incomplete and uncoordinated character spacing. Open

priority:ignored-issue-template

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mpv-player/mpv#18387 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Audio is cut off on macOS 27 Open

os:mac

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18384 · 22 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 18, 2026
I would like to request official support for **HDR Vivid** and **Audio Vivid** in mpv. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

mpv-player/mpv#18381 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Support MVC 3D (Blu-ray frame-packed) playback Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mpv-player/mpv#18380 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 17, 2026
When the two parameters demuxer-max-bytes and demuxer-readahead-secs are enabled, switching to a TrueHD audio track requires a 50-second wait before audio starts playing. Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mpv-player/mpv#18371 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
external audio issue Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mpv-player/mpv#18369 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Embedded Interactive Report Assistant Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mpv-player/mpv#18366 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Windows on ARM binaries should have /align:0x10000 (64k align) Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mpv-player/mpv#18362 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Provide a built-in UI for loading and customizing external subtitles Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mpv-player/mpv#18360 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Wayland session restore doesn't work properly using fractional scaling (under KDE?) Open

os:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18359 · Opened Aug 9, 2026
3D SBSL and ABL option removed so MPV treats everything as HALF SBS/TAB not FULL SBS/TAB Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18348 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
visual and audio glitches Open

os:linux priority:ignored-issue-template

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

mpv-player/mpv#18345 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Deband grain is far too strong Open

os:win

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18338 · 5 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Allow access to selected value in `submit` callback of `mp.input.select` Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

mpv-player/mpv#18337 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
How to specify specific font weight for OSD and subs? Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mpv-player/mpv#18335 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2026
add multiplier to hdr-compute-peak darkening/brightening (more control, finetuning) Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18331 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
allow tone-mapping-max-boost in vo=gpu-next Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18320 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2026
The minimize, maximize, and close buttons are all not working. Open

os:win priority:ignored-issue-template

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mpv-player/mpv#18316 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Provides customizable transparency settings Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

mpv-player/mpv#18314 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
regression master: cover art not displayed with ytdl_hook-thumbnails Open

os:linux

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18311 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
New option to set how much item to play in the playlist Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18294 · Opened Jul 25, 2026
Chroma shifted vertically with vo=gpu + polar cscale + hwdec=vulkan, only for heights not aligned to hwdec surface padding Open

os:linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

mpv-player/mpv#18292 · Opened Jul 25, 2026
Magic Kernel Sharp (Classic, 2013, and 2021) resampling filter for upscaling filter Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mpv-player/mpv#18288 · 10 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 24, 2026
gpu_next: In HDR/Dolby Vision, PGS graphic subtitles inherit the video color space and produce obvious color shift. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 63/100

mpv-player/mpv#18286 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 24, 2026
There is now a working solution to implement mediacodec + vulkan + gpu-next. Open

meta:feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mpv-player/mpv#18278 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2026

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