spcified/mpv-mpris

MPRIS plugin for mpv

mpv-mpris

mpv-mpris is a plugin for mpv which allows control of the player using standard media keys.

This plugin implements the MPRIS D-Bus interface and can be controlled using tools such as playerctl or through many open source desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE.

Compatibility

This plugin requires mpv to be built with --enable-cplugins (default as of mpv 0.26) and to be built with Lua support (to enable loading scripts).

Loading

mpv will automatically load the plugin from the following directories:

• /etc/mpv/scripts: for all users
• ~/.config/mpv/scripts: for current user

mpv can also manually load the plugin from other directories:

mpv --script=/path/to/mpris.so video.mp4

Install

Packages are available for many distributions.

For 64-bit x86 Linux a pre-built version is available here and can be copied into one of the mpv scripts directories documented above.

A self-built mpris.so file can be installed with make install and will be installed to the appropriate mpv scripts directory for your current user or to the mpv system wide scripts directory for all users when you install as root.

Build

Build requirements:

• C99 compiler (gcc or clang)
• pkg-config
• mpv development files
• glib development files
• gio development files

Building should be as simple as running make in the source code directory.

D-Bus interfaces

Implemented:

• org.mpris.MediaPlayer2
• org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player

Not implemented:

• org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.TrackList
• org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Playlists