mpv - media player (Xenial & newer)

Latest mpv 0.40.0 (requires other PPAs for install) for Xenial & newer.

*** mpv builds here depend on the private PPA for successful install! ***

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Update (17 Apr 2025): Builds are now with FFmpeg 7.1 from today onwards.

*** For older updates about builds see "Updates" after "Install" below ***

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                     mpv - new builds (Xenial & newer)
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djvulibre (3.5.28), freeimage (3.18.0), highway (1.2.0), jasper (4.2.4), jpeg-xl (0.11.1), kvazaar (2.3.1), lcms2 (2.16), lerc (4.0.0), libarchive (3.7.9), libcrypto++ (8.9.0), libde265 (1.0.15), libdeflate (1.23), libdisplay-info (0.2.0), libheif (1.19.7), libraw (0.21.3), libsixel (1.10.3), libwebp (1.5.0), libwmf (0.2.12), libzip (1.7.3), mpv (0.40.0), mpv-mpris (1.1), mujs (1.3.5), playerctl (2.4.1), skcms (0.0~git20230210), tiff (4.7.0), vapoursynth (R55~API3), zimg (3.0.5)

Focal only: libdbl-perl (1.20 = libdeflate / renamed source for i386)

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*** Install ***

To run this mpv successfully FFmpeg >= 7.1 is now required for all series, which requires the FFmpeg 4 PPA (Ubuntu < 24.04 LTS only). FFmpeg >= 7.1 requires access to the private PPA and any who have donated can contact me to request such access. After access to the private PPA is setup do this:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg7
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/mpv
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install libmpv2 mpv

Note for Ubuntu < 24.04 LTS: Do the following before the above commands:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4

Note for Ubuntu < 22.04 LTS: Do the following before the above commands:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/display

The display PPA will upgrade DRM, Mesa, Wayland, and various other display drivers. So be sure you want this and as always: backup before upgrading!

Note about mpv git builds: Use ppa:savoury1/mpv-git for builds of mpv from git source (see https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/mpv-git).

*** Updates ***

Update (22 Nov 2023): Due new version requirements with latest mpv 0.37.0 these builds are now with the display PPA (ppa:savoury1/display), which is also then required for installation of these builds for Ubuntu < 22.04 LTS (ie. 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04). See install notes below for more details.

Update (3 Sep 2023): New mpv >= 0.36.0 requires Wayland >= 1.20 so there is no longer Wayland support on Ubuntu < 22.04 for mpv builds at this PPA.

Update (9 Apr 2023): Version 0.35.1-1ubuntu0~XX.04.sav0.2 yesterday caused a serious crash for some users (LP: #2015659). This may have been related to new libplacebo. Please update to 0.35.1-3+XX.04.sav0 to fix the issue.

Update (28 Feb 2023): Builds are now with FFmpeg >= 6.0 rather than FFmpeg 5.1, thus ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg6 must also be added for successful install.

Update (3 Nov 2022): Latest mpv-mpris 0.9 (use MPRIS for mpv control, ie. with playerctl) now available (also playerctl 2.4.1 for pre-Jammy series).

Update (13 Aug 2022): Builds are now with FFmpeg >= 5.1 for new supported features (JPEG-XL and AVChannelLayout). So ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg5 must also be added for successful install (as described in "Install" notes below).

Update (5 Jul 2022): Thanks to Evgeny Yugov for reporting the serious bug (LP: #1980723) about no video in recent (git20220627) builds of mpv here. This bug is now fixed with the latest builds (git20220705) uploaded today.

Update (7 Jul 2021): All main supported features are enabled on this build of mpv including: libplacebo, shaderc, vulkan, zimg, and now vapoursynth!

Update (28 Aug 2021): Bug for libplacebo VAAPI on Intel GPU (LP: #1941941) running Mesa >= 21 should be fixed by new libplacebo & mpv rebuild today.

*** Build ***

This PPA has build dependencies on:

  ppa:savoury1/build-tools
  ppa:savoury1/backports
  ppa:savoury1/graphics
  ppa:savoury1/multimedia
  ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4

*** Credits ***

- Creators of mpv: the entire team of mpv contributors
  https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/graphs/contributors

- Package code: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mpv