mpv

USE flags

• alsa - Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
• aqua - Include support for the Mac OS X Aqua (Carbon/Cocoa) GUI
• archive - Enable support for various archive formats via app-arch/libarchive
• bluray - Enable playback of Blu-ray filesystems
• cdda - Add Compact Disk Digital Audio (Standard Audio CD) support
• cli - Enable the command-line player
• coreaudio - Build the CoreAudio driver on Mac OS X systems
• debug - Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
• drm - Enable Kernel Mode Setting / Direct Rendering Manager based video outputs
• dvb - Add support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)
• dvd - Add support for DVDs
• egl - Enable support for various EGL-based video outputs / backends
• gamepad - Enable gamepad input support
• iconv - Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library
• jack - Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
• javascript - Enable javascript support
• jpeg - Add JPEG image support
• lcms - Add lcms support (color management engine)
• libcaca - Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics
• libmpv - Enable the shared library and headers (used by frontends / plugins)
• libplacebo - Enable support for GPU accelerated video rendering with media-libs/libplacebo
• lua - Enable Lua scripting, OSC (On Screen Controller) GUI, and net-misc/yt-dlp support
• lua_single_target_lua5-1 - Build for Lua 5.1 only
• lua_single_target_luajit - Build for LuaJIT only
• mmal - Enable Multi-Media Abstraction Layer (MMAL) decoding support: Available e.g. on the Raspberry Pi
• nvenc - Add support for NVIDIA Encoder/Decoder (NVENC/NVDEC) API for hardware accelerated encoding and decoding on NVIDIA cards (requires x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers)
• openal - Add support for the Open Audio Library
• opengl - Enable support for OpenGL-based video backends (Note: deprecated for X11, USE=egl provides the newer support for -gpu-api=opengl)
• pipewire - Enable sound support via native PipeWire backend
• pulseaudio - Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire)
• python_single_target_python3_10 - Build for Python 3.10 only
• python_single_target_python3_11 - Build for Python 3.11 only
• python_single_target_python3_12 - Build for Python 3.12 only
• python_single_target_python3_9 - Build for Python 3.9 only
• raspberry-pi - Enable support for the Raspberry Pi
• rubberband - Enable high quality pitch correction via media-libs/rubberband
• sdl - Enable media-libs/libsdl2 based video and audio outputs (Note: these outputs exist for compatibility reasons only, avoid if possible)
• selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
• sixel - Enable support for the sixel video backend using media-libs/libsixel
• sndio - Enable sound support via media-sound/sndio
• test - Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
• tools - Install extra tools: mpv_identify.sh, mpv_idet.sh, and umpv
• uchardet - Enable subtitles charset discovery via app-i18n/uchardet
• vaapi - Enable Video Acceleration API for hardware decoding
• vdpau - Enable the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix acceleration interface
• vulkan - Add support for 3D graphics and computing via the Vulkan cross-platform API
• wayland - Enable dev-libs/wayland backend
• X - Add support for X11
• xv - Add in optional support for the Xvideo extension (an X API for video playback)
• zimg - Enable libzimg support (for vf_fingerprint)
• zlib - Add support for zlib (de)compression

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