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A Beginner's Guide To Customizing Your Media Player - R - MPV

This guide provides an overview of customizing the MPV media player, covering installation, configuration files, scripts, and keyboard shortcuts. Users can personalize their MPV experience by modifying settings in input.conf and mpv.conf, adding scripts, and testing configurations in a portable_config folder. The document also includes useful resources for further customization and learning about MPV functionalities.

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A Beginner's Guide To Customizing Your Media Player - R - MPV

This guide provides an overview of customizing the MPV media player, covering installation, configuration files, scripts, and keyboard shortcuts. Users can personalize their MPV experience by modifying settings in input.conf and mpv.conf, adding scripts, and testing configurations in a portable_config folder. The document also includes useful resources for further customization and learning about MPV functionalities.

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…A Beginner's Guide to Customizing Your Media Player

Hey there, MPV newbies!

As an MPV Player user, I struggled with learning many things, summarized here a few of them, so all the newbies have an easy way to grasp things.

If you're looking for a customizable media player that you can tweak to your liking, then MPV is the way to go. In this post, we'll give you an overview of
MPV and show you how to customize its configurations, scripts, and keyboard shortcuts. By the end of this guide, you'll have a personalized media player
that suits your needs.

Overview of MPV:
• Installation and Basics.
• Configuration Files.
• MPV Scripts.
• Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Testing Playground.
• Useful Resources

1. Installation and Basics:


• MPV Player can be installed anywhere in the system.
• Configurations are stored at %appdata%/mpvby default.
• Default configurations can be bypassed by setting a subfolder "portable_config" in the MPV installation directory.

2. Configuration Files:
• MPV uses two configuration files: input.conf and mpv.conf.
• The input.conf file allows you to configure keyboard and mouse shortcuts.
• The mpv.conf file allows you to customize various aspects of the player's behavior, such as video and audio settings, playback options, and user
interface preferences.
• Some useful mpv.conf settings include:
• save-position-on-quit: to make the video position save where you last quit a window.

3. MPV Scripts:
• Scripts can be added to MPV to extend its capabilities, affecting every aspect of the program, like how it manages files or displays videos.
• Here's a list of user scripts available on GitHub: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts.

4. Keyboard Shortcuts:
• Keyboard shortcuts can be modified in the input.conf file.
• Here's an example of old effective MPV settings for basic keyboard shortcuts:

AXIS_UP add volume 2


AXIS_DOWN add volume -2
UP add volume 2
DOWN add volume -2
Shift+RIGHT frame-step
Shift+LEFT frame-back-step
Shift+UP add volume 10
Shift+DOWN add volume -10Q
y cycle deband
z cycle deband
ctrl+d vf toggle yadif
x add sub-delay +0.042
c add sub-delay -0.042
b add audio-delay +0.042
n add audio-delay -0.042
a cycle-values video-aspect "16:9" "4:3" "2.35:1" "-1"

5. Testing Playground:
• The player can be tested with different configurations by creating a portable_config folder in the installation directory.
• Extract MPV Folder to a new location with portable_config folder.
Extract MPV Folder to a new location with portable_config folder.
• Load different Scripts/Conf/User's Conf to the folder portable_config
• Create multiple folders as such and copy shortcuts to each customized MPV.exe.

6. Useful Resources
Awesome MPV Scripts

Tsubajashi MPV Configuration (All Great Conf and scripts combined, paste it in %appdata%/mpv)

Guide to Input.conf

Give MPV a try and start customizing it to your liking!

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