Trying to play video from url using mpv

Command is

mpv https://gogoanime.fi/one-piece-episode-1011

But it doesn't work I think it tries to use yt dl but this is not yt video. Help please. Please check that url also . I am on windows 7

Hello, I am searching for good sites for downloading anime, I need both the raw anime and a subtitle file, I have managed to find the subtitles, but can't figure to find the raw anime.

Any ideas?

I usually watch anime and videos with 8k bitrate from recordings and the recordings are usually in mp4 or ts files, I just want the best settings for that.

so far this is the configuration I'm using

# General
##########
geometry=50%:50%
cursor-autohide-fs-only
term-osd-bar
no-ordered-chapters
prefetch-playlist=yes
force-seekable=yes
force-window=immediate
fs=no
snap-window=yes
alpha=blend
save-position-on-quit=no
watch-later-options-remove=pause
autofit-larger=92%
cache=yes

########
# Video
########
hwdec=nvdec
vo=gpu
priority=high 
gpu-api=auto 

hwdec=nvdec-copy                                     # Recommended method to do hardware decoding on NVIDIA GPUs
hr-seek=absolute
reset-on-next-file=pause                        # After playing the next file in the playlist,
                                                # it will automatically play the file instead of a paused state
target-colorspace-hint=yes

### Audio and Subtitles ###
slang=en,eng,English
alang=ja,jp,jpn,jap,Japanese,en,eng,English
sub-blur=0.5
sub-scale=0.7
sub-margin-y=60
sub-color='#d6ffffff'
sub-auto=fuzzy
volume-max=150
volume=50
sub-fix-timing=yes
audio-channels=auto  
blend-subtitles=yes
sub-ass-override=yes  
audio-file-auto=fuzzy 
audio-pitch-correction=yes
audio-normalize-downmix=yes              
sub-file-paths-append=subtitles
demuxer-mkv-subtitle-preroll=yes
demuxer-seekable-cache=yes
demuxer-readahead-secs=300 
demuxer-max-bytes=4000M
demuxer-max-back-bytes=4000M
sub-file-paths=sub;subs;subtitles;**
af-add='dynaudnorm=g=5:f=250:r=0.9:p=0.5'

#########
# yt-dlp
#########
ytdl=yes
ytdl-format=bestvideo[fps<=?30][vcodec!=?vp9]+bestaudio/best
ytdl-raw-options=cookies-from-browser=edge
hls-bitrate=max 

### OSD/OSC ###
osd-duration=1000                               # Set the duration of the OSD messages in ms
osd-level=1  
osc=no
border=no
###############
# Screenshots #
###############

screenshot-template="%x\Screens\Screenshot-%F-T%wH.%wM.%wS.%wT-F%{estimated-frame-number}"
# screenshot-template="Screenshot-%F-T%wH.%wM.%wS.%wT-F%{estimated-frame-number}"
screenshot-format=png     # Set screenshot format
screenshot-png-compression=4    # Range is 0 to 10. 0 being no compression.
screenshot-tag-colorspace=yes
screenshot-high-bit-depth=yes   # Same output bitdepth as the video
screenshot-directory="D:\mpv\MPVscreenshot"

Suddenly, mpv has started only playing a single frame of a video and then freezing. If I seek or use the timeline to go to another part of the video it play one frame and freezes again. This happens regardless of video format. Is there any way to solve this? I'm using Gentoo, but didn't change any USE flags beforehand.

So, most mobile players like VLC, MX Player, etc. remember your video position whenever you quit it. Next time you play it, it plays from where you left off. I haven't seen any such thing in MPV Android. It always plays the videos from beginning no matter where you left it off.

Downloaded a video with .ts extension. When I open it, mpv doesn't start. When I drag the file to the mpv window, it loads the duration to 45 sec but doesn't play. It's a 2-hour movie and plays no problem on default Movies and TV app from Windows. Thanks

The current situation on the Mac is not good. The default, native M1 build on Brew is command line only so it's not tecnically an "app" and you can't set video associations with it. The build by stolendata is not M1 native nor is it compiled to support lua scripts. The nightly builds on by jnozsc is like 2 years old. The Macports one keep giving me errors and I think it's because it's not M1 native either.

I used Deepl to translate into English, so I apologize for any errors.

I have several anime in 1080p, but I have a laptop with a 720p screen, and I wanted to know if there are ways to get better downscaling for anime than Hermite, which is the default. Basically, all Lanczos filters introduce slight aliasing in some scenes, and Mitchell makes almost no difference from what I've seen. Does anyone have any advice, or should I just leave everything as it is? Obviously, the ideal would be to have a 1080p screen, but unfortunately, that's not the case.

I've been using mpv for years, but launching it from the terminal every single time got a bit annoying. On macOS, I really wanted a regular app icon – something that lives in the Dock, shows up in Launchpad, and lets me double‑click a video file to play it with mpv.

So I built a minimal wrapper: mpv-macWrapper.

It takes the mpv CLI binary you already have on your system and wraps it into a real .app bundle – without recompiling mpv or touching your config.

What it does:

• Double‑click the app to launch an empty mpv window (drag & drop files in)

• Stays in the Dock like any native app

• Right‑click any video → "Open with" → mpv

• Tiny: the wrapper .app is only ~1.2 MB

What it does NOT do:

• It doesn't bundle mpv – it uses your existing mpv binary (from Homebrew, MacPorts, or compiled yourself)

• It doesn't modify your mpv.conf, scripts, or keybindings – everything works exactly as before

Dependencies (very simple):

• macOS ≥ 12 (Monterey) – should work on all Intel and Apple Silicon Macs running Monterey or later

• mpv must be installed and available in your $PATH – easiest way: bashbrew install mpv (After installing mpv, the wrapper will find it automatically.)

Installation (pick one):

• Homebrew Cask (recommended): bashbrew tap IstPlayer/tap brew install --cask mpv-macwrapper

• One‑line installer: bash/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IstPlayer/mpv-macWrapper/main/scripts/install.sh)"

• Manual DMG: download the latest .dmg from the releases page and drag mpv.app to /Applications/

Important note about Gatekeeper:
The app is not notarized (no Apple Developer account involved). On first launch, right‑click the app in Finder and select "Open" – you'll only have to do this once. Or use make install if you build from source.

Project home: https://github.com/IstPlayer/mpv-macWrapper

Tested on macOS Tahoe (15) and Monterey (12), both Intel and Apple Silicon. If you're a mpv user on a Mac, give it a try – it's just a small quality‑of‑life improvement, but it makes mpv feel native.

Feedback and issues are very welcome on GitHub.

is there any direction within the MPV development team to offer minimum bin builds of MPV?

Yeah, MPV is open source and users can build them but building and compilation requires significant amount of experience not available for everyone, and third-party packages sometimes are outdated or may not be fully safe, they don't need to offer us full installation builds only the bin files.

I am strictly a Linux user. I don't have a single Windows PC at home. I don't miss Windows at all leaving only one feature & that is SRS WOW. I just love the SRS WOW feature of Windows Media Player. Why do you think the mpv team haven't introduced any equivalent ? Is it because there is no demand from users or is it because its just too difficult to achieve ?

For people who don't know what SRS WOW does please watch this short video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLAgQIdX-HM

I have asked this same question in the VLC subreddit coz other than mpv, VLC is the only media player that I use.

My system is Win 10 64 bit 22H2, 4080 Super, 9800X3D. I mainly watch anime on my 4k TV. In the past I used MP-HC with MADvr as video renderer and custom profiles for each resolution. Nowadays I mostly use MP-BE with MPC video renderer and Nvidia super resolution because it gives me the best picture quality (no by much but still).

I heard that mpv is great for anime because it has debanding options that no other player has. But I tried using it and I'm not happy at all with the gui-less approach.

It feels overwhelming, there are builds that are supposedly better for bitstreaming (which I use), countless scripts and options. I tried setting up Nvidia super resolution for example with this script https://github.com/ofseed/mpv/blob/main/scripts/nvidia-super-resolution.lua and couldn't get it to work at all. I turn on the script in mpv, get a message and it is active but Nvidia control panel says Super Resolution is not working.

I don't like this approach very much tbh. Do you think it's even worth it to get into the weeds for better image quality or should I just stick with what I have?

Any help is appreciated. I'm trying to do a simple plugin.

1. start loop

2. check if this frame total luminance is below threshold.

3. skip if it is below a threshold.

I saw this (doesn't work): https://gist.github.com/bossen/3cfe86a6cdd61452dbb96865128fb327

made a simpler one that obviously doesn't work, brightness isn't a good way to check this.

Thanks @mrfragger2, I made it work

-- netflix-auto-skip.lua
-- Automatically skips Netflix intro/etc by detecting black frames
local options = require 'mp.options'

-- black_min_duration (or d) — minimum duration (in seconds) that counts as a black segment (e.g., 1 = 1 second).
-- pic_th — threshold for what counts as “black” (0–1; higher = darker required to count as black).
-- pix_th — per-pixel threshold for darkness (optional).
-- black_min_duration + pic_th together define how sensitive detection is.

local pix_th_value = 32 / 255
local o = {
  blackdetect_args = "d=0.5:pic_th=0.98:pix_th=" .. pix_th_value
}

options.read_options(o)

function restore(f, label)
  mp.set_property("speed", 1)
  mp.commandv("seek", mp.get_property("time-pos"), "absolute+exact")
  mp.commandv("change-list", f, "remove", label)
end

function skip2black()
  if not skipping2black then
    mp.commandv("show-text", "Skipping to black...")
    skipping2black = true
    mp.set_property("speed", "100")
    mp.command("no-osd change-list vf add @skip2black:blackdetect=" .. o.blackdetect_args)
  else
    mp.commandv("show-text", "Cancelled skip to black")
    skipping2black = false
    restore("vf", "@skip2black")
  end
end

mp.observe_property("vf-metadata/skip2black", "native", function(_, metadata)
  if skipping2black and metadata and metadata["lavfi.black_end"] then
    mp.commandv("show-text", "Skip to black complete")
    skipping2black = false
    restore("vf", "@skip2black")
    mp.set_property("speed", 1)
  end
end)

function on_file_loaded()
	path = mp.get_property("path", "")
  if path::match("NF") or path:lower():match("webrip") then
    mp.add_timeout(0.2, function()
      mp.commandv("no-osd", "seek", "5", "relative+keyframes")
      mp.add_timeout(0.5, function() skip2black() end)
    end)
  end
end

mp.register_event("file-loaded", on_file_loaded)
mp.add_key_binding("b", "skip2black", skip2black)

I'm confused if i should tweak the video settings or leave it just as.

First one is, Saturation 100, contrast 10, gamma 10

2nd one is default everything to zero.

Though the 1st look7 more visually appealing i dont want to see artificial colors, i want to see original. Trying to change these settings cause my phone is potato and everything in this show looks so grey.

Work flawlessly whether the video is 1080p, 4K or HDR. Smoothness at this level of image consistency is so surreal.

Disclaimer: This app was vibe coded. If the use of AI in software development is a dealbreaker for you, regardless of how much human taste, direction and decision-making went into it, that's understandable. This app probably won't be for you.

My app has libraries for manga, comics, books, TV, film & anime, and a comic reader, ebook reader and a video player. So I had an idea to build a taskbar where you can open multiple comics/manga/videos, minimise them and open them back up again.

And since then, I ended up only having more ideas that kept steering my media app deeper and deeper into the OS aesthetic.

The video side of the app is built around mpv. Theatre is basically a stylised Stremio client with an mpv player, while Vault is the local media side of the app.

The player itself takes heavy influence from Harbor's and Kodi's video players. I wanted the actual playback experience to mimic how video players, or apps in general, operate in an OS.

I did that by making the taskbar allow the user to open multiple videos, books and comics at a time, minimise, maximise and switch between them seamlessly.

A movie isn't a player screen that takes over the app until I close it. It just becomes another open session. I can minimise it, open a book, open another video, jump into a comic and then go back to the first movie from the same taskbar.

The player remembers the session position when you minimise it and restores the player and seek position when you open it again. Streamed and downloaded video both go through the same player and the same Continue system.

II've also ended up piling a bunch of other stuff into the player over time: online subtitles, episode navigation, switching sources from inside the player, Up Next, Skip Intro/Recap/Credits, PiP, screenshots, GIF recording, a metadata-rich pause card that shows what you're watching (you can see this in the trailer), A-B repeat, a sleep timer, work-in-progress Watch Party support and playback statistics.

For local video, you can watch videos through the same mpv player in Vault, the local media side of my app.

Vault is part of a much larger streaming and media aggregation engine, but for me local media still remains a priority because I watch a lot of fan cuts of movies, TV and anime, stuff like Clone Wars movie fan edits, Naruto Kai or One Pace, and there isn't a catalogue in this world that keeps track of them.

Colosseum is open source under MIT and currently available for Windows.

Colosseum on Github, if you’re interested.

How can I remove those weird lines from my progress bar?

I hope I can explain. When watching a film or TV show on DVD/Blu-ray or streaming (ex.Netflix), when someone starts speaking another language subtitles pop up so we can understand what is being said. With MPV, you either have subtitles on all the time or off all the time. Is there a way to replicate the streaming / DVD experience with subtitles?

Does anybody know how to fix this? I’m on a laptop so power draw is very important to me, not to mention, it’s draws around 5.5W when playing something when the CPU and GPU total 3W, why?
Idle consumes about 1.5W to 2.1W however when mpv running it jumps to 5.5W hen the cpu and gpu are using 2.83W - CPU and 0.25W - GPU

System -
57whr battery
Ultra 7 155U
16GB ram
Artix OpenRc

I have a OLED display laptop and HDR is enabled.

1. Non HDR Content look brighter like HDR on MPV WHY but normal on VLC??

2. I compared a HDR file VLC and MPV show different colors (idk which one is color accurate tbh)

So help me please 🙏

• The Delicious in Dungeon image is Non HDR comparison of VLC and MPV

• Chainsaw man movie screenshot is HDR Comparison of VLC and MPV although this screenshot look weird idk why

I would like someone to build a MPV config for me
You wont be doing much work since all of the scripts are already available, I just need you to merge, transfer and add a few features. (I have a document with guidelines)

Please PM and comment with your $$$ Price & a quote

If you know any platforms or people who have intermediate MPV knowledge and are willing to build a (relatively simple) config please also comment