MPV.NET (DotNET MPV frontend)
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:23 am
I kept postponing a post about MIT licensed FLOSS MPV.NET[*] (https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net) for the simple reason that it's such a feature rich and advanced media player solution that I basically didn't know where to start.
Well that won't do anymore as MPV.NET is already at v5.4.1, released 2019-09-05 (check https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net/releases), while development is still going briskly.
The official site offers native portable packages for download, which I have have yet to test thoroughly but, because they're DotNET based (you'll need the latest v4.7 framework, in fact), I'd expect MPV.NET to leave behind some minor traces.
Now, configuration of the underlying mpv (https://mpv.io/) engine seems to be an advanced science field by itself and that's something MPV.NET explicitly aims to make easier -- I'd still recommend an extensive read of the homepage manual or similar resources, though.
There's also a fairly recent 3rd-party review from Ghacks.net at www.ghacks.net /2019/07/05/a-look-at-mpv-net-a-mpv-frontend-with-everything-integration/.
MPV.NET latest release can be downloaded from https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net/releases.
[*] I'm deliberately using the name in all-caps here in order to offset keyword ambiguity, as a search at TPFC or Google for "mpv.net" will get scores of totally unrelated results.
Well that won't do anymore as MPV.NET is already at v5.4.1, released 2019-09-05 (check https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net/releases), while development is still going briskly.
The official site offers native portable packages for download, which I have have yet to test thoroughly but, because they're DotNET based (you'll need the latest v4.7 framework, in fact), I'd expect MPV.NET to leave behind some minor traces.
mpv.net is a modern media player for Windows that works just like mpv. [...] mpv.net is based on libmpv which offers a straightforward C API that was designed from the ground up to make mpv usable as a library and facilitate easy integration into other applications. mpv is like vlc not based on DirectShow or Media Foundation.
If a folder named portable_config next to the mpvnet.exe exists, all config will be loaded from this folder only.
Now, configuration of the underlying mpv (https://mpv.io/) engine seems to be an advanced science field by itself and that's something MPV.NET explicitly aims to make easier -- I'd still recommend an extensive read of the homepage manual or similar resources, though.
There's also a fairly recent 3rd-party review from Ghacks.net at www.ghacks.net /2019/07/05/a-look-at-mpv-net-a-mpv-frontend-with-everything-integration/.
MPV.NET latest release can be downloaded from https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net/releases.
[*] I'm deliberately using the name in all-caps here in order to offset keyword ambiguity, as a search at TPFC or Google for "mpv.net" will get scores of totally unrelated results.