mpv-android

Prismriver Media

About this app

mpv-android is a video player for Android based on libmpv.

Features:
* Hardware and software video decoding
* Gesture-based seeking, volume/brightness control and more
* libass support for styled subtitles
* Advanced video settings (interpolation, debanding, scalers, ...)
* Play network streams with the "Open URL" function
* Background playback, Picture-in-Picture, keyboard input supported

The full set of dependencies for each build can be found in the release notes on our GitHub repository.

Ratings and reviews

Honestly, great. Best I have seen on Android in terms of playback quality, efficiency in battery usage, and outright performance. It plays videos my tablet can't play natively with almost no dropped frames and my tablet is not very powerful. Other, 3rd party players either didn't play at all or struggled with those formats. Only need two more features to be perfect: Casting support, and a slightly better interface or more customisation of said Interface. Otherwise, best there is on Android.

MPV is my go-to media player on both macOS and Windows. I'm glad to see this android port works very well and it works exactly in the manner I want: no fancy Library view, just a Files view to navigate and play smoothly. The playback interface is minimal, swipe right/left to seek, swipe up/down to change brightness or volume. This is all I want personally for a media player on mobile.