mpvKt: MPV based media player

Abdallah Mehiz

About this app

mpvKt is a front-end for the versatile media player mpv, built on the libmpv library. It aims to combine the powerful features of mpv with an easier-to-use interface and additional functionality.

- Simpler and easier to use UI: Designed to make navigation and playback smoother, especially for those who want a straightforward media player experience.
- Advanced Configuration and Scripting: Offers the full capabilities of mpv's scripting and configuration for users who want to customize their playback
- Picture-in-Picture (PiP): Continue watching videos while using other apps.
- Multi-Modal Controls: Includes customizable gestures for controlling volume, brightness, and playback, along with Keyboard input support.

mpvKt aims to enhance the mpv experience by making it more accessible while retaining its flexibility and powerful playback capabilities.

Ratings and reviews

Great player. Could you implement that feature where you can pinch and unpinch to manually adjust/crop? MX player had that feature and it's super useful, essentially you were able to have something in between the "best fit" and "crop" presets, since best fit can sometimes have too much black bars but the crop preset is too much and actually cuts off some of the image.

This is easily the best video player available right now. It improves mpv and makes it so much more visually appealing. I've tried a lot of video players but whenever I found a good one they were missing a key feature for me, multiple subtitle support. I hope development continues on this video player and they keep improving it.

Finally a good, open-source video player solution for android. Good options for customizing subtitles colours, size and position and even a filter for video! Great for increasing contrast on those HDR videos that go too hard on the blacks. Can't say I miss much. Maybe a preset save per video, an black oled theme or a file picker inside the app. Downloading subtitles inside the app would be another nice qol. Gesture would need some threshold and more scaling options tho

What’s new

# Added
- Subtitle scale setting
# Changed
- Adjust player dimming
- Adjust Player buttons' clickable area
# Fixed
- Gesture seeking indicator stuck at 0 when seeking backwards
- The app trying to open every link
- UI not reflecting actual delays being applied to subtitles