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NAME

       mpv - a media player

SYNOPSIS

       mpv [options] [file|URL|PLAYLIST|-]
       mpv [options] files

DESCRIPTION

       mpv  is  a media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video
       file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.  Special  input  URL  types  are
       available  to  read  input  from  a variety of sources other than disk files. Depending on
       platform, a variety of different video and audio output methods are supported.

       Usage examples to get you started quickly can be found at the end of this man page.

INTERACTIVE CONTROL

       mpv has a fully configurable, command-driven control layer which allows you to control mpv
       using  keyboard, mouse, or remote control (there is no LIRC support - configure remotes as
       input devices instead).

       See the --input- options for ways to customize it.

   Keyboard Control
       LEFT and RIGHT
              Seek backward/forward 5 seconds. Shift+arrow  does  a  1  second  exact  seek  (see
              --hr-seek).

       UP and DOWN
              Seek  forward/backward  1  minute.  Shift+arrow  does  a  5  second exact seek (see
              --hr-seek).

       Ctrl+LEFT and Ctrl+RIGHT
              Seek to the previous/next subtitle. Subject to some restrictions and might not work
              always; see sub_seek command.

       [ and ]
              Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10%.

       { and }
              Halve/double current playback speed.

       BACKSPACE
              Reset playback speed to normal.

       < and >
              Go backward/forward in the playlist.

       ENTER  Go forward in the playlist.

       p / SPACE
              Pause (pressing again unpauses).

       .      Step forward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press will play one frame
              and then go into pause mode again.

       ,      Step backward. Pressing once will pause, every  consecutive  press  will  play  one
              frame in reverse and then go into pause mode again.

       q      Stop playing and quit.

       Q      Like  q,  but store the current playback position. Playing the same file later will
              resume at the old playback position if possible.

       / and *
              Decrease/increase volume.

       9 and 0
              Decrease/increase volume.

       m      Mute sound.

       _      Cycle through the available video tracks.

       #      Cycle through the available audio tracks.

       f      Toggle fullscreen (see also --fs).

       ESC    Exit fullscreen mode.

       T      Toggle stay-on-top (see also --ontop).

       w and e
              Decrease/increase pan-and-scan range.

       o (also P)
              Show progression bar, elapsed time and total duration on the OSD.

       O      Toggle OSD states between normal and playback time/duration.

       v      Toggle subtitle visibility.

       j and J
              Cycle through the available subtitles.

       x and z
              Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.

       l      Set/clear A-B loop points. See ab-loop command for details.

       L      Toggle infinite looping.

       Ctrl + and Ctrl -
              Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.

       u      Switch between applying no style overrides to  SSA/ASS  subtitles,  and  overriding
              them almost completely with the normal subtitle style. See --ass-style-override for
              more info.

       V      Toggle     subtitle     VSFilter      aspect      compatibility      mode.      See
              --ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat for more info.

       r and t
              Move subtitles up/down.

       s      Take a screenshot.

       S      Take  a  screenshot,  without  subtitles.  (Whether this works depends on VO driver
              support.)

       Ctrl s Take a screenshot, as the window shows it (with subtitles, OSD, and scaled video).

       I      Show filename on the OSD.

       PGUP and PGDWN
              Seek to the beginning of the previous/next chapter. In most cases, "previous"  will
              actually go to the beginning of the current chapter; see --chapter-seek-threshold.

       Shift+PGUP and Shift+PGDWN
              Seek  backward  or  forward  by  10  minutes. (This used to be mapped to PGUP/PGDWN
              without Shift.)

       d      Activate/deactivate deinterlacer.

       A      Cycle aspect ratio override.

       (The following  keys  are  valid  only  when  using  a  video  output  that  supports  the
       corresponding adjustment, or the software equalizer (--vf=eq).)

       1 and 2
              Adjust contrast.

       3 and 4
              Adjust brightness.

       5 and 6
              Adjust gamma.

       7 and 8
              Adjust saturation.

       Alt+0 (and command+0 on OSX)
              Resize video window to half its original size.

       Alt+1 (and command+1 on OSX)
              Resize video window to its original size.

       Alt+2 (and command+2 on OSX)
              Resize video window to double its original size.

       command + f (OSX only)
              Toggle fullscreen (see also --fs).

       command + [ and command + ] (OSX only)
              Set video window alpha.

       (The following keys are valid if you have a keyboard with multimedia keys.)

       PAUSE  Pause.

       STOP   Stop playing and quit.

       PREVIOUS and NEXT
              Seek backward/forward 1 minute.

       (The following keys are only valid if you compiled with TV or DVB input support.)

       h and k
              Select previous/next channel.

   Mouse Control
       button 3 and button 4
              Seek backward/forward 1 minute.

       button 5 and button 6
              Decrease/increase volume.

USAGE

       Every  flag  option  has  a  no-flag  counterpart, e.g. the opposite of the --fs option is
       --no-fs. --fs=yes is same as --fs, --fs=no is the same as --no-fs.

       If an option is marked as (XXX only), it will only work in combination with the XXX option
       or if XXX is compiled in.

   Escaping spaces and other special characters
       Keep in mind that the shell will partially parse and mangle the arguments you pass to mpv.
       For example, you might need to quote or escape options and filenames:
          mpv "filename with spaces.mkv" --title="window title"

       It gets more complicated if the suboption parser is involved. The  suboption  parser  puts
       several  options  into a single string, and passes them to a component at once, instead of
       using multiple options on the level of the command line.

       The suboption parser can quote strings with " and [...].  Additionally, there is a special
       form of quoting with %n% described below.

       For example, the opengl VO can take multiple options:
          mpv test.mkv --vo=opengl:scale=lanczos:icc-profile=file.icc,xv

       This  passes  scale=lanczos  and  icc-profile=file.icc to opengl, and also specifies xv as
       fallback VO. If the icc-profile path contains spaces or characters like , or :,  you  need
       to quote them:
          mpv '--vo=opengl:icc-profile="file with spaces.icc",xv'

       Shells  may  actually  strip some quotes from the string passed to the commandline, so the
       example quotes the string twice, ensuring that mpv receives the " quotes.

       The [...] form of quotes wraps everything between [ and ]. It's useful  with  shells  that
       don't  interpret  these  characters in the middle of an argument (like bash). These quotes
       are balanced (since mpv 0.9.0): the [ and ] nest, and the quote terminates on the  last  ]
       that has no matching [ within the string. (For example, [a[b]c] results in a[b]c.)

       The fixed-length quoting syntax is intended for use with external scripts and programs.

       It is started with % and has the following format:

          %n%string_of_length_n

          Examples

                 mpv --ao=pcm:file=%10%C:test.wav test.avi

                 Or in a script:

                 mpv --ao=pcm:file=%`expr length "$NAME"`%"$NAME" test.avi

       Suboptions   passed   to   the   client   API   are   also   subject  to  escaping.  Using
       mpv_set_option_string() is exactly like passing  --name=data  to  the  command  line  (but
       without  shell  processing  of  the string). Some options support passing values in a more
       structured way instead of flat strings, and can avoid  the  suboption  parsing  mess.  For
       example,  --vf  supports  MPV_FORMAT_NODE, which lets you pass suboptions as a nested data
       structure of maps and arrays. (--vo supports this in the same way, although this  fact  is
       undocumented.)

   Paths
       Some  care  must  be taken when passing arbitrary paths and filenames to mpv. For example,
       paths starting with - will be interpreted as options. Likewise, if  a  path  contains  the
       sequence  ://, the string before that might be interpreted as protocol prefix, even though
       :// can be part of a legal UNIX path. To avoid problems with arbitrary paths,  you  should
       be sure that absolute paths passed to mpv start with /, and relative paths with ./.

       The name - itself is interpreted as stdin, and will cause mpv to disable console controls.
       (Which makes it suitable for playing data piped to stdin.)

       For paths passed to suboptions, the situation is further complicated by the need to escape
       special  characters.  To  work  this  around,  the path can be additionally wrapped in the
       fixed-length syntax, e.g. %n%string_of_length_n (see above).

       Some mpv options interpret paths starting with ~. Currently, the prefix ~~/ expands to the
       mpv  configuration  directory  (usually  ~/.config/mpv/).   ~/  expands to the user's home
       directory. (The trailing / is always required.) There are the following paths as well:

                           ┌─────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                           │Name         │ Meaning                          │
                           └─────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

                           │~~home/      │ same as ~~/                      │
                           ├─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                           │~~global/    │ the  global  config   path,   if │
                           │             │ available (not on win32)         │
                           ├─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                           │~~osxbundle/ │ the  OSX  bundle  resource  path │
                           │             │ (OSX only)                       │
                           ├─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                           │~~desktop/   │ the path to the desktop  (win32, │
                           │             │ OSX)                             │
                           └─────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

   Per-File Options
       When  playing  multiple  files,  any  option given on the command line usually affects all
       files. Example:

          mpv --a file1.mkv --b file2.mkv --c

                                      ┌──────────┬────────────────┐
                                      │File      │ Active options │
                                      ├──────────┼────────────────┤
                                      │file1.mkv │ --a --b --c    │
                                      ├──────────┼────────────────┤
                                      │file2.mkv │ --a --b --c    │
                                      └──────────┴────────────────┘

       (This is different from MPlayer and mplayer2.)

       Also, if any option is changed at runtime (via input commands), they are not reset when  a
       new file is played.

       Sometimes,  it  is  useful  to change options per-file. This can be achieved by adding the
       special per-file markers --{ and --}. (Note that you must escape these  on  some  shells.)
       Example:

          mpv --a file1.mkv --b --\{ --c file2.mkv --d file3.mkv --e --\} file4.mkv --f

                                 ┌──────────┬─────────────────────────┐
                                 │File      │ Active options          │
                                 ├──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
                                 │file1.mkv │ --a --b --f             │
                                 ├──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
                                 │file2.mkv │ --a --b --f --c --d --e │
                                 ├──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
                                 │file3.mkv │ --a --b --f --c --d --e │
                                 ├──────────┼─────────────────────────┤
                                 │file4.mkv │ --a --b --f             │
                                 └──────────┴─────────────────────────┘

       Additionally,  any  file-local  option  changed  at runtime is reset when the current file
       stops playing. If option --c is changed during playback of file2.mkv,  it  is  reset  when
       advancing  to  file3.mkv.  This  only  affects file-local options. The option --a is never
       reset here.

CONFIGURATION FILES

   Location and Syntax
       You can put all of the options in configuration files which will be read every time mpv is
       run.  The  system-wide  configuration  file  'mpv.conf' is in your configuration directory
       (e.g. /etc/mpv or /usr/local/etc/mpv), the user-specific  one  is  ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf.
       For details and platform specifics (in particular Windows paths) see the FILES section.

       User-specific  options  override system-wide options and options given on the command line
       override either. The syntax of the configuration files is option=value. Everything after a
       # is considered a comment. Options that work without values can be enabled by setting them
       to yes and disabled by setting them to no. Even suboptions can be specified in this way.

          Example configuration file

              # Use opengl video output by default.
              vo=opengl
              # Use quotes for text that can contain spaces:
              status-msg="Time: ${time-pos}"

   Escaping spaces and special characters
       This is done like with command line options. The shell is not involved  here,  but  option
       values still need to be quoted as a whole if it contains certain characters like spaces. A
       config entry can be quoted with ", as well as with the fixed-length syntax (%n%) mentioned
       before.  This  is  like  passing  the  exact contents of the quoted string as command line
       option. C-style escapes are currently _not_  interpreted  on  this  level,  although  some
       options do this manually. (This is a mess and should probably be changed at some point.)

   Putting Command Line Options into the Configuration File
       Almost  all  command  line options can be put into the configuration file. Here is a small
       guide:

                             ┌──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
                             │Option            │ Configuration file entry │
                             ├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                             │--flagflag                     │
                             ├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                             │-opt valopt=val                  │
                             ├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                             │--opt=valopt=val                  │
                             ├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                             │-opt "has spaces"opt="has spaces"         │
                             └──────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

   File-specific Configuration Files
       You can also write file-specific configuration files. If you wish to have a  configuration
       file  for  a  file  called  'video.avi',  create  a  file  named 'video.avi.conf' with the
       file-specific options  in  it  and  put  it  in  ~/.config/mpv/.  You  can  also  put  the
       configuration file in the same directory as the file to be played. Both require you to set
       the --use-filedir-conf option (either on the command line or in your global config  file).
       If  a  file-specific  configuration  file is found in the same directory, no file-specific
       configuration is loaded from ~/.config/mpv. In  addition,  the  --use-filedir-conf  option
       enables  directory-specific  configuration  files.   For  this,  mpv first tries to load a
       mpv.conf from the  same  directory  as  the  file  played  and  then  tries  to  load  any
       file-specific configuration.

   Profiles
       To   ease   working  with  different  configurations,  profiles  can  be  defined  in  the
       configuration files. A profile starts with its name in square brackets, e.g. [my-profile].
       All following options will be part of the profile. A description (shown by --profile=help)
       can be defined with the profile-desc option. To end the profile, start another one or  use
       the profile name default to continue with normal options.

          Example mpv config file with profiles

              # normal top-level option
              fullscreen=yes

              # a profile that can be enabled with --profile=big-cache
              [big-cache]
              cache=123400
              demuxer-readahead-secs=20

              [slow]
              profile-desc="some profile name"
              vo=opengl:scale=ewa_lanczos:scale-radius=16

              [fast]
              vo=vdpau

              # using a profile again extends it
              [slow]
              framedrop=no
              # you can also include other profiles
              profile=big-cache

   Auto profiles
       Some profiles are loaded automatically. The following example demonstrates this:

          Auto profile loading

              [vo.vdpau]
              # Use hardware decoding
              hwdec=vdpau

              [protocol.dvd]
              profile-desc="profile for dvd:// streams"
              alang=en

              [extension.flv]
              profile-desc="profile for .flv files"
              vf=flip

              [ao.alsa]
              device=spdif

       The profile name follows the schema type.name, where type can be vo to match the value the
       --vo option is set to, ao for --ao, protocol for the input/output  protocol  in  use  (see
       --list-protocols),  and  extension  for  the extension of the path of the currently played
       file (not the file format).

       This feature is very limited, and there are no other auto profiles.

TAKING SCREENSHOTS

       Screenshots of the currently played file can be taken using the  'screenshot'  input  mode
       command, which is by default bound to the s key. Files named shotNNNN.jpg will be saved in
       the working directory, using the first available number - no files will be overwritten.

       A screenshot will usually contain the unscaled video contents at  the  end  of  the  video
       filter  chain  and  subtitles.  By default, S takes screenshots without subtitles, while s
       includes subtitles.

       Unlike with MPlayer, the screenshot video filter is not required. This  filter  was  never
       required in mpv, and has been removed.

TERMINAL STATUS LINE

       During  playback,  mpv  shows the playback status on the terminal. It looks like something
       like this:
          AV: 00:03:12 / 00:24:25 (13%) A-V: -0.000

       The status line can be overridden with the --term-status-msg option.

       The following is a list of things that can show up in the status line.  Input  properties,
       that can be used to get the same information manually, are also listed.

       • AV: or V: (video only) or A: (audio only)

       • The current time position in HH:MM:SS format (playback-time property)

       • The total file duration (absent if unknown) (length property)

       • Playback  speed,  e.g.  ``  x2.0``. Only visible if the speed is not normal. This is the
         user-requested speed, and not the actual speed  (usually they should be the same, unless
         playback is too slow). (speed property.)

       • Playback  percentage,  e.g.  (13%).  How  much  of  the  file has been played.  Normally
         calculated out of playback position and duration, but  can  fallback  to  other  methods
         (like byte position) if these are not available.  (percent-pos property.)

       • The  audio/video  sync  as  A-V:   0.000. This is the difference between audio and video
         time. Normally it should be 0 or close to 0.  If  it's  growing,  it  might  indicate  a
         playback problem. (avsync property.)

       • Total  A/V  sync  change,  e.g.  ct: -0.417. Normally invisible. Can show up if there is
         audio "missing", or not enough frames can be  dropped.  Usually  this  will  indicate  a
         problem. (total-avsync-change property.)

       • Encoding state in {...}, only shown in encoding mode.

       • Display sync state. If display sync is active (display-sync-active property), this shows
         DS: 2.500/13, where the first number is average number of vsyncs per video  frame  (e.g.
         2.5  when  playing 24Hz videos on 60Hz screens), which might jitter if the ratio doesn't
         round off, or there  are  mistimed  frames  (vsync-ratio),  and  the  second  number  of
         estimated  number  of  vsyncs which took too long (vo-delayed-frame-count property). The
         latter is a heuristic, as it's generally not possible to determine this with certainty.

       • Dropped frames, e.g. Dropped: 4. Shows up only if the count is not 0. Can  grow  if  the
         video  framerate  is higher than that of the display, or if video rendering is too slow.
         Also can be incremented on "hiccups" and when the video frame couldn't be  displayed  on
         time.  (vo-drop-frame-count  property.)   If  the  decoder  drops  frames, the number of
         decoder-dropped frames is appended to the display as well,  e.g.:  Dropped:  4/34.  This
         happens  only  if  decoder  frame  dropping  is  enabled  with  the --framedrop options.
         (drop-frame-count property.)

       • Cache state, e.g. Cache:  2s+134KB. Visible if the stream cache is enabled.   The  first
         value  shows  the  amount  of video buffered in the demuxer in seconds, the second value
         shows additional data buffered in the stream cache in kilobytes. (demuxer-cache-duration
         and cache-used properties.)

PROTOCOLS

       http://..., https://, ...
              Many  network  protocols  are  supported,  but  the  protocol prefix must always be
              specified. mpv will never attempt to guess whether a filename is actually a network
              address. A protocol prefix is always required.

              Note  that  not  all prefixes are documented here. Undocumented prefixes are either
              aliases to documented protocols, or are just redirections to protocols  implemented
              and documented in FFmpeg.

       -      Play data from stdin.

       smb://PATH
              Play a path from  Samba share.

       bd://[title][/device] --bluray-device=PATH
              Play  a  Blu-Ray disc. Currently, this does not accept ISO files. Instead, you must
              mount the ISO  file  as  filesystem,  and  point  --bluray-device  to  the  mounted
              directory directly.

       dvd://[title|[starttitle]-endtitle][/device] --dvd-device=PATH
              Play a DVD. DVD menus are not supported. If no title is given, the longest title is
              auto-selected.

              dvdnav:// is an old alias for dvd:// and does exactly the same thing.

       dvdread://...:
              Play a DVD using the old libdvdread code.  This  is  what  MPlayer  and  older  mpv
              versions  use  for dvd://. Use is discouraged. It's provided only for compatibility
              and for transition.

       tv://[channel][/input_id] --tv-...
              Analogue TV via V4L. Also useful for webcams. (Linux only.)

       pvr:// --pvr-...
              PVR. (Linux only.)

       dvb://[cardnumber@]channel --dvbin-...
              Digital TV via DVB. (Linux only.)

       mf://[filemask|@listfile] --mf-...
              Play a series of images as video.

       cdda://track[-endtrack][:speed][/device] --cdrom-device=PATH --cdda-...
              Play CD.

       lavf://...
              Access any FFmpeg/Libav libavformat protocol. Basically,  this  passed  the  string
              after the // directly to libavformat.

       av://type:options
              This  is  intended  for  using  libavdevice inputs. type is the libavdevice demuxer
              name, and options is the (pseudo-)filename passed to the demuxer.

              For example,  mpv  av://lavfi:mandelbrot  makes  use  of  the  libavfilter  wrapper
              included  in  libavdevice,  and  will  use the mandelbrot source filter to generate
              input data.

              avdevice:// is an alias.

       file://PATH
              A local path as URL. Might be useful in some  special  use-cases.  Note  that  PATH
              itself should start with a third / to make the path an absolute path.

       fd://123
              Read  data from the given UNIX FD (for example 123). This is similar to piping data
              to stdin via -, but can use an arbitrary file descriptor.  Will not work  correctly
              on MS Windows.

       edl://[edl specification as in edl-mpv.rst]
              Stitch together parts of multiple files and play them.

       null://
              Simulate an empty file.

       memory://data
              Use the data part as source data.

PSEUDO GUI MODE

       mpv  has  no  official GUI, other than the OSC (ON SCREEN CONTROLLER), which is not a full
       GUI and is not meant to be. However, to compensate for the lack of expected GUI  behavior,
       mpv will in some cases start with some settings changed to behave slightly more like a GUI
       mode.

       Currently this happens only in the following cases:

       • if started using the mpv.desktop  file  on  Linux  (e.g.  started  from  menus  or  file
         associations provided by desktop environments)

       • if  started from explorer.exe on Windows (technically, if it was started on Windows, and
         all of the stdout/stderr/stdin handles are unset)

       • manually adding --profile=pseudo-gui to the command line

       This mode implicitly adds --profile=pseudo-gui to the command line,  with  the  pseudo-gui
       profile being predefined with the following contents:

          [pseudo-gui]
          terminal=no
          force-window=yes
          idle=once
          screenshot-directory=~~desktop/

       This  follows  the  mpv config file format. To customize pseudo-GUI mode, you can put your
       own pseudo-gui profile into your mpv.conf. This profile will enhance the default  profile,
       rather than overwrite it.

       The profile always overrides other settings in mpv.conf.

OPTIONS

   Track Selection
       --alang=<languagecode[,languagecode,...]>
              Specify  a  priority  list  of  audio languages to use. Different container formats
              employ different language codes. DVDs use  ISO  639-1  two-letter  language  codes,
              Matroska, MPEG-TS and NUT use ISO 639-2 three-letter language codes, while OGM uses
              a free-form identifier. See also --aid.

                 Examples

                 mpv dvd://1 --alang=hu,en
                        Chooses the Hungarian language track on a DVD and falls back  on  English
                        if Hungarian is not available.

                 mpv --alang=jpn example.mkv
                        Plays a Matroska file in Japanese.

       --slang=<languagecode[,languagecode,...]>
              Specify  a  priority list of subtitle languages to use. Different container formats
              employ different language codes. DVDs use ISO  639-1  two  letter  language  codes,
              Matroska  uses  ISO  639-2  three  letter language codes while OGM uses a free-form
              identifier. See also --sid.

                 Examples

                 • mpv dvd://1 --slang=hu,en chooses the Hungarian subtitle track on  a  DVD  and
                   falls back on English if Hungarian is not available.

                 • mpv --slang=jpn example.mkv plays a Matroska file with Japanese subtitles.

       --aid=<ID|auto|no>
              Select audio track. auto selects the default, no disables audio.  See also --alang.
              mpv normally prints available audio tracks on the terminal when  starting  playback
              of a file.

       --sid=<ID|auto|no>
              Display  the  subtitle  stream  specified  by  <ID>.  auto  selects the default, no
              disables subtitles.

              See also --slang, --no-sub.

       --vid=<ID|auto|no>
              Select video channel. auto selects the default, no disables video.

       --ff-aid=<ID|auto|no>, --ff-sid=<ID|auto|no>, --ff-vid=<ID|auto|no>
              Select audio/subtitle/video streams by the FFmpeg stream index. The  FFmpeg  stream
              index  is  relatively  arbitrary,  but  useful when interacting with other software
              using FFmpeg (consider ffprobe).

              Note that with external tracks (added with --sub-file and similar  options),  there
              will  be  streams  with  duplicate  IDs. In this case, the first stream in order is
              selected.

       --edition=<ID|auto>
              (Matroska files only) Specify the edition (set of chapters) to use, where 0 is  the
              first.  If set to auto (the default), mpv will choose the first edition declared as
              a default, or if there is no default, the first edition defined.

   Playback Control
       --start=<relative time>
              Seek to given time position.

              The general format for absolute times is [[hh:]mm:]ss[.ms]. If the  time  is  given
              with  a  prefix  of + or -, the seek is relative from the start or end of the file.
              (Since mpv 0.14, the start of the file is always considered 0.)

              pp% seeks to percent position pp (0-100).

              #c seeks to chapter number c. (Chapters start from 1.)

                 Examples

                 --start=+56, --start=+00:56
                        Seeks to the start time + 56 seconds.

                 --start=-56, --start=-00:56
                        Seeks to the end time - 56 seconds.

                 --start=01:10:00
                        Seeks to 1 hour 10 min.

                 --start=50%
                        Seeks to the middle of the file.

                 --start=30 --end=40
                        Seeks to 30 seconds, plays 10 seconds, and exits.

                 --start=-3:20 --length=10
                        Seeks to 3 minutes and 20 seconds before the end of the  file,  plays  10
                        seconds, and exits.

                 --start='#2' --end='#4'
                        Plays chapters 2 and 3, and exits.

       --end=<time>
              Stop  at  given  absolute  time.  Use  --length  if  the time should be relative to
              --start. See --start for valid option values and examples.

       --length=<relative time>
              Stop after a given time relative to the start time.  See --start for  valid  option
              values and examples.

       --rebase-start-time=<yes|no>
              Whether  to  move  the  file  start  time  to 00:00:00 (default: yes). This is less
              awkward for files which start at a random timestamp, such as transport streams.  On
              the other hand, if there are timestamp resets, the resulting behavior can be rather
              weird. For this reason, and in  case  you  are  actually  interested  in  the  real
              timestamps, this behavior can be disabled with no.

       --speed=<0.01-100>
              Slow down or speed up playback by the factor given as parameter.

              If  --audio-pitch-correction  (on  by default) is used, playing with a speed higher
              than normal automatically inserts the scaletempo audio filter.

       --loop=<N|inf|force|no>
              Loops playback N times. A value of 1 plays it one time (default), 2 two times, etc.
              inf  means  forever. no is the same as 1 and disables looping. If several files are
              specified on command line, the entire playlist is looped.

              The force mode is like inf, but does not skip  playlist  entries  which  have  been
              marked as failing. This means the player might waste CPU time trying to loop a file
              that doesn't exist. But it might be useful for playing  webradios  under  very  bad
              network conditions.

       --pause
              Start the player in paused state.

       --shuffle
              Play files in random order.

       --chapter=<start[-end]>
              Specify  which chapter to start playing at. Optionally specify which chapter to end
              playing at. Also see --start.

       --playlist-pos=<no|index>
              Set which file on the internal playlist to start playback with.  The  index  is  an
              integer,  with  0  meaning the first file. The value no means that the selection of
              the entry to play is left to the playback resume mechanism (default). If  an  entry
              with the given index doesn't exist, the behavior is unspecified and might change in
              future mpv versions. The same applies if the playlist  contains  further  playlists
              (don't  expect any reasonable behavior). Passing a playlist file to mpv should work
              with this option, though. E.g. mpv playlist.m3u  --playlist-pos=123  will  work  as
              expected, as long as playlist.m3u does not link to further playlists.

       --playlist=<filename>
              Play files according to a playlist file (Supports some common formats. If no format
              is detected, it will be treated as list of files, separated by newline  characters.
              Note that XML playlist formats are not supported.)

              You  can  play  playlists  directly  and  without this option, however, this option
              disables any security mechanisms that might be in place. You  may  also  need  this
              option to load plaintext files as playlist.

              WARNING:
                 The  way  mpv uses playlist files via --playlist is not safe against maliciously
                 constructed files. Such files may trigger harmful actions.  This  has  been  the
                 case  for all mpv and MPlayer versions, but unfortunately this fact was not well
                 documented earlier, and some people have even  misguidedly  recommended  use  of
                 --playlist  with  untrusted  sources. Do NOT use --playlist with random internet
                 sources or files you do not trust!

                 Playlist can contain entries using other protocols,  such  as  local  files,  or
                 (most  severely),  special  protocols  like  avdevice://,  which  are inherently
                 unsafe.

       --chapter-merge-threshold=<number>
              Threshold for merging almost consecutive  ordered  chapter  parts  in  milliseconds
              (default:  100).  Some Matroska files with ordered chapters have inaccurate chapter
              end timestamps, causing a small gap between the end of one chapter and the start of
              the  next one when they should match.  If the end of one playback part is less than
              the given threshold away from the start of the next one  then  keep  playing  video
              normally over the chapter change instead of doing a seek.

       --chapter-seek-threshold=<seconds>
              Distance in seconds from the beginning of a chapter within which a backward chapter
              seek will go to the  previous  chapter  (default:  5.0).  Past  this  threshold,  a
              backward  chapter  seek  will go to the beginning of the current chapter instead. A
              negative value means always go back to the previous chapter.

       --hr-seek=<no|absolute|yes>
              Select when to use precise seeks that are not  limited  to  keyframes.  Such  seeks
              require  decoding video from the previous keyframe up to the target position and so
              can take some time depending on  decoding  performance.  For  some  video  formats,
              precise  seeks  are  disabled.  This  option  selects the default choice to use for
              seeks; it is possible to explicitly override that default in the definition of  key
              bindings and in slave mode commands.

              no     Never use precise seeks.

              absolute
                     Use  precise  seeks if the seek is to an absolute position in the file, such
                     as a chapter seek, but not for relative seeks like the default  behavior  of
                     arrow keys (default).

              yes    Use precise seeks whenever possible.

              always Same as yes (for compatibility).

       --hr-seek-demuxer-offset=<seconds>
              This  option  exists  to work around failures to do precise seeks (as in --hr-seek)
              caused by bugs or limitations in the demuxers for some file formats. Some  demuxers
              fail  to  seek  to  a  keyframe  before the given target position, going to a later
              position instead. The value of this option is subtracted from the time stamp  given
              to the demuxer. Thus, if you set this option to 1.5 and try to do a precise seek to
              60 seconds, the demuxer is told to seek to time 58.5, which hopefully  reduces  the
              chance that it erroneously goes to some time later than 60 seconds. The downside of
              setting this option is that precise seeks  become  slower,  as  video  between  the
              earlier demuxer position and the real target may be unnecessarily decoded.

       --hr-seek-framedrop=<yes|no>
              Allow  the video decoder to drop frames during seek, if these frames are before the
              seek target. If this is enabled, precise seeking can be faster, but if you're using
              video  filters  which  modify  timestamps or add new frames, it can lead to precise
              seeking skipping the target frame. This e.g.  can  break  frame  backstepping  when
              deinterlacing is enabled.

              Default: yes

       --index=<mode>
              Controls  how  to  seek in files. Note that if the index is missing from a file, it
              will be built on the fly by default, so you don't need to change this. But it might
              help with some broken files.

              default
                     use an index if the file has one, or build it if missing

              recreate
                     don't read or use the file's index

              NOTE:
                 This  option  only works if the underlying media supports seeking (i.e. not with
                 stdin, pipe, etc).

       --load-unsafe-playlists
              Load URLs from playlists which are considered unsafe (default: no).  This  includes
              special protocols and anything that doesn't refer to normal files.  Local files and
              HTTP links on the other hand are always considered safe.

              Note that --playlist always loads all entries, so  you  use  that  instead  if  you
              really have the need for this functionality.

       --loop-file=<N|inf|no>
              Loop  a  single  file  N  times.  inf  means forever, no means normal playback. For
              compatibility, --loop-file and --loop-file=yes are also accepted, and are the  same
              as --loop-file=inf.

              The  difference  to  --loop  is  that this doesn't loop the playlist, just the file
              itself. If the playlist contains only a single file, the difference between the two
              option is that this option performs a seek on loop, instead of reloading the file.

       --ab-loop-a=<time>, --ab-loop-b=<time>
              Set  loop  points.  If  playback  passes  the  b  timestamp,  it will seek to the a
              timestamp. Seeking past the  b  point  doesn't  loop  (this  is  intentional).  The
              loop-points  can be adjusted at runtime with the corresponding properties. See also
              ab_loop command.

       --ordered-chapters, --no-ordered-chapters
              Enabled by default.  Disable support for Matroska ordered chapters.  mpv  will  not
              load  or  search  for  video  segments  from  other files, and will also ignore any
              chapter order specified for the main file.

       --ordered-chapters-files=<playlist-file>
              Loads the given file as playlist, and tries to use the files  contained  in  it  as
              reference  files  when  opening  a  Matroska  file that uses ordered chapters. This
              overrides the normal mechanism for loading referenced files by  scanning  the  same
              directory the main file is located in.

              Useful  for  loading  ordered  chapter  files  that  are  not  located on the local
              filesystem, or if the referenced files are in different directories.

              Note: a playlist can be as simple as a text file containing filenames separated  by
              newlines.

       --chapters-file=<filename>
              Load  chapters  from  this file, instead of using the chapter metadata found in the
              main file.

       --sstep=<sec>
              Skip <sec> seconds after every frame.

              NOTE:
                 Without --hr-seek, skipping will snap to keyframes.

       --stop-playback-on-init-failure=<yes|no>
              Stop playback if either audio or video fails to initialize. Currently, the  default
              behavior  is  no for the command line player, but yes for libmpv. With no, playback
              will continue in video-only or audio-only mode if one of them fails.  This  doesn't
              affect playback of audio-only or video-only files.

   Program Behavior
       --help Show short summary of options.

       -v     Increment verbosity level, one level for each -v found on the command line.

       --version, -V
              Print version string and exit.

       --no-config
              Do  not  load  default  configuration  files.  This  prevents  loading  of both the
              user-level and system-wide mpv.conf and input.conf files. Other configuration files
              are blocked as well, such as resume playback files.

              NOTE:
                 Files   explicitly   requested  by  command  line  options,  like  --include  or
                 --use-filedir-conf, will still be loaded.

              Also see --config-dir.

       --list-options
              Prints all available options.

       --list-properties
              Print a list of the available properties.

       --list-protocols
              Print a list of the supported protocols.

       --log-file=<path>
              Opens the given path for writing, and print log messages to it. Existing files will
              be  truncated.  The  log  level  always  corresponds  to -v, regardless of terminal
              verbosity levels.

       --config-dir=<path>
              Force a different configuration directory. If this is set, the given  directory  is
              used  to  load  configuration  files,  and  all other configuration directories are
              ignored. This means the global mpv configuration  directory  as  well  as  per-user
              directories are ignored, and overrides through environment variables (MPV_HOME) are
              also ignored.

              Note that the --no-config option takes precedence over this option.

       --save-position-on-quit
              Always save the current playback position on quit. When this file is  played  again
              later,  the  player  will seek to the old playback position on start. This does not
              happen if playback of a file is  stopped  in  any  other  way  than  quitting.  For
              example,  going  to  the  next file in the playlist will not save the position, and
              start playback at beginning the next time the file is played.

              This behavior is disabled by default, but is always  available  when  quitting  the
              player with Shift+Q.

       --dump-stats=<filename>
              Write  certain  statistics to the given file. The file is truncated on opening. The
              file will contain raw samples, each with a timestamp. To  make  this  file  into  a
              readable,  the  script TOOLS/stats-conv.py can be used (which currently displays it
              as a graph).

              This option is useful for debugging only.

       --idle=<no|yes|once>
              Makes mpv wait idly instead of quitting when there is  no  file  to  play.   Mostly
              useful in slave mode, where mpv can be controlled through input commands.

              once  will  only idle at start and let the player close once the first playlist has
              finished playing back.

       --include=<configuration-file>
              Specify configuration file to be parsed after the default ones.

       --load-scripts=<yes|no>
              If set to no, don't auto-load scripts from the scripts  configuration  subdirectory
              (usually ~/.config/mpv/scripts/).  (Default: yes)

       --script=<filename>
              Load  a  Lua  script.  You can load multiple scripts by separating them with commas
              (,).

       --script-opts=key1=value1,key2=value2,...
              Set options for scripts. A script can query an option by key. If an option is  used
              and  what  semantics  the  option value has depends entirely on the loaded scripts.
              Values not claimed by any scripts are ignored.

       --merge-files
              Pretend that all files passed to mpv are concatenated into a single, big file. This
              uses timeline/EDL support internally. Note that this won't work for ordered chapter
              files.

       --no-resume-playback
              Do not restore playback position from the  watch_later  configuration  subdirectory
              (usually ~/.config/mpv/watch_later/).  See quit_watch_later input command.

       --profile=<profile1,profile2,...>
              Use the given profile(s), --profile=help displays a list of the defined profiles.

       --reset-on-next-file=<all|option1,option2,...>
              Normally,  mpv  will  try  to  keep  all settings when playing the next file on the
              playlist, even if they were changed by the user during playback. (This behavior  is
              the  opposite  of  MPlayer's,  which tries to reset all settings when starting next
              file.)

              Default: Do not reset anything.

              This can be changed with this option. It accepts a list of options,  and  mpv  will
              reset  the  value  of  these  options  on  playback start to the initial value. The
              initial value is either the default value, or as set by the config file or  command
              line.

              In  some cases, this might not work as expected. For example, --volume will only be
              reset if it is explicitly set in the config file or the command line.

              The special name all resets as many options as possible.

                 Examples

                 • --reset-on-next-file=pause Reset pause mode when switching to the next file.

                 • --reset-on-next-file=fullscreen,speed  Reset  fullscreen  and  playback  speed
                   settings if they were changed during playback.

                 • --reset-on-next-file=all  Try  to  reset all settings that were changed during
                   playback.

       --write-filename-in-watch-later-config
              Prepend the watch later config files with the name of the file they refer to.  This
              is simply written as comment on the top of the file.

              WARNING:
                 This  option  may  expose  privacy-sensitive information and is thus disabled by
                 default.

       --ignore-path-in-watch-later-config
              Ignore path (i.e. use filename only) when using watch later feature.

       --show-profile=<profile>
              Show the description and content of a profile.

       --use-filedir-conf
              Look for a file-specific configuration file in the same directory as the file  that
              is being played. See File-specific Configuration Files.

              WARNING:
                 May be dangerous if playing from untrusted media.

       --ytdl, --no-ytdl
              Enable the youtube-dl hook-script. It will look at the input URL, and will play the
              video located on the website. This works with many streaming sites,  not  just  the
              one that the script is named after. This requires a recent version of youtube-dl to
              be installed on the system. (Enabled by default,  except  when  the  client  API  /
              libmpv is used.)

              If the script can't do anything with an URL, it will do nothing.

       --ytdl-format=<best|worst|mp4|webm|...>
              Video format/quality that is directly passed to youtube-dl. The possible values are
              specific to the website and the video, for a given url the available formats can be
              found   with   the   command   youtube-dl   --list-formats  URL.  See  youtube-dl's
              documentation for available aliases.   (Default:  youtube-dl's  default,  currently
              bestvideo+bestaudio/best)

       --ytdl-raw-options=<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>[,...]]
              Pass  arbitrary options to youtube-dl. Parameter and argument should be passed as a
              key-value pair. Options without argument must include =.

              There is no sanity checking so it's possible to break things (i.e.  passing invalid
              parameters to youtube-dl).

                 Example

                        --ytdl-raw-options=username=user,password=pass
                        --ytdl-raw-options=force-ipv6=

   Video
       --vo=<driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
              Specify a priority list of video output drivers to be used.  For  interactive  use,
              one  would  normally  specify  a  single  one  to  use, but in configuration files,
              specifying a list of fallbacks may make sense. See VIDEO OUTPUT DRIVERS for details
              and descriptions of available drivers.

       --vd=<[+|-]family1:(*|decoder1),[+|-]family2:(*|decoder2),...[-]>
              Specify a priority list of video decoders to be used, according to their family and
              name. See --ad for further details. Both of these options use the same  syntax  and
              semantics; the only difference is that they operate on different codec lists.

              NOTE:
                 See --vd=help for a full list of available decoders.

       --vf=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
              Specify a list of video filters to apply to the video stream. See VIDEO FILTERS for
              details and descriptions of the available filters.  The option  variants  --vf-add,
              --vf-pre,  --vf-del  and  --vf-clr exist to modify a previously specified list, but
              you should not need these for typical use.

       --no-video
              Do not play video. With some demuxers this may not work. In those cases you can try
              --vo=null instead.

              mpv  will  try  to  download  the  audio only if media is streamed with youtube-dl,
              because  it  saves  bandwidth.  This  is  done  by  setting  the   ytdl_format   to
              "bestaudio/best" in the ytdl_hook.lua script.

       --untimed
              Do  not  sleep  when  outputting video frames. Useful for benchmarks when used with
              --no-audio.

       --framedrop=<mode>
              Skip displaying some frames to maintain A/V sync on slow systems, or  playing  high
              framerate video on video outputs that have an upper framerate limit.

              The argument selects the drop methods, and can be one of the following:

              <no>   Disable any framedropping.

              <vo>   Drop  late  frames on video output (default). This still decodes and filters
                     all frames, but doesn't render them on the VO. It tries to query the display
                     FPS  (X11  only,  not correct on multi-monitor systems), or assumes infinite
                     display FPS if that fails. Drops are indicated in the terminal  status  line
                     as  D: field. If the decoder is too slow, in theory all frames would have to
                     be dropped (because all frames are too late) - to avoid this, frame dropping
                     stops if the effective framerate is below 10 FPS.

              <decoder>
                     Old,  decoder-based  framedrop mode. (This is the same as --framedrop=yes in
                     mpv 0.5.x and before.) This tells the decoder to skip  frames  (unless  they
                     are  needed  to  decode  future frames). May help with slow systems, but can
                     produce unwatchable choppy output, or even freeze  the  display  completely.
                     Not  recommended.   The  --vd-lavc-framedrop  option controls what frames to
                     drop.

              <decoder+vo>
                     Enable both modes. Not recommended.

              NOTE:
                 --vo=vdpau has its own code for the vo framedrop  mode.  Slight  differences  to
                 other VOs are possible.

       --display-fps=<fps>
              Set  the  display  FPS  used  with  the  --video-sync=display-* modes. By default a
              detected value is used (X11 only, not correct on multi-monitor  systems).  Keep  in
              mind  that  setting  an incorrect value (even if slightly incorrect) can ruin video
              playback.

       --hwdec=<api>
              Specify the hardware video decoding API that should be used if  possible.   Whether
              hardware decoding is actually done depends on the video codec. If hardware decoding
              is not possible, mpv will fall back on software decoding.

              <api> can be one of the following:

              no     always use software decoding (default)

              auto   see below

              vdpau  requires --vo=vdpau or --vo=opengl (Linux only)

              vaapi  requires --vo=opengl or --vo=vaapi (Linux only)

              vaapi-copy
                     copies video back into system RAM (Linux with Intel GPUs only)

              videotoolbox
                     requires --vo=opengl (OS X 10.8 and up only)

              dxva2-copy
                     copies video back to system RAM (Windows only)

              rpi    requires --vo=rpi (Raspberry Pi only - default if available)

              auto tries to automatically enable hardware  decoding  using  the  first  available
              method. This still depends what VO you are using. For example, if you are not using
              --vo=vdpau or --vo=opengl, vdpau decoding will never be enabled. Also note that  if
              the  first found method doesn't actually work, it will always fall back to software
              decoding, instead of trying the next method (might matter on some Linux systems).

              The vaapi mode, if used with --vo=opengl, requires Mesa 11 and  most  likely  works
              with  Intel  GPUs only. It also requires the opengl EGL backend (automatically used
              if  available).  You  can  also  try  the  old  GLX  backend  by  forcing  it  with
              --vo=opengl:backend=x11,  but  the  vaapi/GLX  interop  is  said  to be slower than
              vaapi-copy.

              The vaapi-copy mode allows you to use vaapi with any VO. Because  this  copies  the
              decoded video back to system RAM, it's likely less efficient than the vaapi mode.

              NOTE:
                 When  using  this  switch, hardware decoding is still only done for some codecs.
                 See --hwdec-codecs to enable hardware decoding for more codecs.

       --hwdec-preload=<api>
              This is useful for the opengl and opengl-cb VOs for creating the hardware  decoding
              OpenGL  interop  context,  but  without  actually enabling hardware decoding itself
              (like --hwdec does).

              If set to no (default), the --hwdec option is used.

              For opengl, if set, do not create the interop context on demand, but when the VO is
              created.

              For  opengl-cb,  if  set, load the interop context as soon as the OpenGL context is
              created. Since opengl-cb has no on-demand loading, this  allows  enabling  hardware
              decoding  at  runtime at all, without having to to temporarily set the hwdec option
              just during OpenGL context initialization with mpv_opengl_cb_init_gl().

       --videotoolbox-format=<name>
              Set the internal pixel format used by --hwdec=videotoolbox on OSX.  The  choice  of
              the format can influence performance considerably. On the other hand, there doesn't
              appear to be a good way to detect the best format for the given hardware. nv12, the
              default,  works  better  on modern hardware, while uyvy422 appears to be better for
              old hardware. rgb0 also works.

       --panscan=<0.0-1.0>
              Enables pan-and-scan functionality (cropping the sides of e.g. a 16:9 video to make
              it fit a 4:3 display without black bands). The range controls how much of the image
              is cropped. May not work with all video output drivers.

       --video-aspect=<ratio>
              Override video aspect ratio, in case aspect information is incorrect or missing  in
              the file being played. See also --no-video-aspect.

              Two values have special meaning:

              0      disable aspect ratio handling, pretend the video has square pixels

              -1     use the video stream or container aspect (default)

              But note that handling of these special values might change in the future.

                 Examples

                 • --video-aspect=4:3  or --video-aspect=1.3333--video-aspect=16:9 or --video-aspect=1.7777

       --no-video-aspect
              Ignore  aspect  ratio  information  from video file and assume the video has square
              pixels. See also --video-aspect.

       --video-aspect-method=<hybrid|bitstream|container>
              This sets the default video aspect determination method (if  the  aspect  is  _not_
              overridden by the user with --video-aspect or others).

              hybrid Prefer  the  container  aspect  ratio.  If  the  bitstream  aspect  switches
                     mid-stream, switch to preferring the bitstream aspect.  This is the  default
                     behavior in mpv and mplayer2.

              container
                     Strictly  prefer  the container aspect ratio. This is apparently the default
                     behavior with VLC, at least with Matroska.

              bitstream
                     Strictly prefer the bitstream aspect  ratio,  unless  the  bitstream  aspect
                     ratio is not set. This is apparently the default behavior with XBMC/kodi, at
                     least with Matroska.

              Normally you should not set this. Try the container and bitstream  choices  if  you
              encounter  video that has the wrong aspect ratio in mpv, but seems to be correct in
              other players.

       --video-unscaled
              Disable scaling of the video. If the window is larger than the  video,  black  bars
              are  added.  Otherwise,  the video is cropped. The video still can be influenced by
              the other --video-... options. (But not all; for example --video-zoom does  nothing
              if this option is enabled.)

              The  video  and  monitor  aspects  aspect  will be ignored. Aspect correction would
              require to scale the video in the X  or  Y  direction,  but  this  option  disables
              scaling, disabling all aspect correction.

              Note  that  the scaler algorithm may still be used, even if the video isn't scaled.
              For example, this can influence chroma conversion.

              This option is disabled if the --no-keepaspect option is used.

       --video-pan-x=<value>, --video-pan-y=<value>
              Moves the displayed video rectangle by the given value in the X or Y direction. The
              unit  is in fractions of the size of the scaled video (the full size, even if parts
              of the video are not visible due to panscan or other options).

              For example, displaying a 1280x720 video fullscreen  on  a  1680x1050  screen  with
              --video-pan-x=-0.1  would  move the video 168 pixels to the left (making 128 pixels
              of the source video invisible).

              This option is disabled if the --no-keepaspect option is used.

       --video-rotate=<0-360|no>
              Rotate the video clockwise, in degrees. Currently supports 90° steps only.   If  no
              is  given, the video is never rotated, even if the file has rotation metadata. (The
              rotation value is added to the rotation metadata, which means  the  value  0  would
              rotate the video according to the rotation metadata.)

       --video-stereo-mode=<no|mode>
              Set  the  stereo  3D  output  mode  (default:  mono). This is done by inserting the
              stereo3d conversion filter.

              The pseudo-mode no disables automatic conversion completely.

              The mode mono is an alias to ml, which refers to the left frame in 2D. This is  the
              default,  which  means mpv will try to show 3D movies in 2D, instead of the mangled
              3D image not intended for consumption (such as showing the  left  and  right  frame
              side by side, etc.).

              Use  --video-stereo-mode=help  to list all available modes. Check with the stereo3d
              filter documentation to see what the names mean. Note  that  some  names  refer  to
              modes  not  supported  by  stereo3d - these modes can appear in files, but can't be
              handled properly by mpv.

       --video-zoom=<value>
              Adjust the video display scale factor by the given value. The unit is in  fractions
              of the (scaled) window video size.

              For  example,  given a 1280x720 video shown in a 1280x720 window, --video-zoom=-0.1
              would make the video by 128 pixels smaller in X  direction,  and  72  pixels  in  Y
              direction.

              This option is disabled if the --no-keepaspect option is used.

       --video-align-x=<-1-1>, --video-align-y=<-1-1>
              Moves  the video rectangle within the black borders, which are usually added to pad
              the  video  to  screen  if  video  and  screen   aspect   ratios   are   different.
              --video-align-y=-1  would move the video to the top of the screen (leaving a border
              only on the bottom), a value of 0 centers it (default), and a value of 1 would  put
              the video at the bottom of the screen.

              If video and screen aspect match perfectly, these options do nothing.

              This option is disabled if the --no-keepaspect option is used.

       --correct-pts, --no-correct-pts
              --no-correct-pts  switches  mpv  to a mode where video timing is determined using a
              fixed framerate value (either using the --fps option, or using  file  information).
              Sometimes,  files  with  very broken timestamps can be played somewhat well in this
              mode. Note that video filters, subtitle rendering and audio synchronization can  be
              completely broken in this mode.

       --fps=<float>
              Override video framerate. Useful if the original value is wrong or missing.

              NOTE:
                 Works in --no-correct-pts mode only.

       --deinterlace=<yes|no|auto>
              Enable  or disable interlacing (default: auto, which usually means no).  Interlaced
              video shows ugly comb-like artifacts, which are visible on fast movement.  Enabling
              this typically inserts the yadif video filter in order to deinterlace the video, or
              lets the video output apply deinterlacing if supported.

              This behaves exactly like the deinterlace input property (usually mapped to d).

              auto is  a  technicality.  Strictly  speaking,  the  default  for  this  option  is
              deinterlacing  disabled,  but  the  auto  case  is needed if yadif was added to the
              filter chain manually with --vf. Then the core shouldn't disable deinterlacing just
              because the --deinterlace was not set.

       --field-dominance=<auto|top|bottom>
              Set  first  field  for interlaced content. Useful for deinterlacers that double the
              framerate: --vf=yadif=field and --vo=vdpau:deint.

              auto   (default) If the decoder does not export  the  appropriate  information,  it
                     falls back on top (top field first).

              top    top field first

              bottom bottom field first

              NOTE:
                 Setting either top or bottom will flag all frames as interlaced.

       --frames=<number>
              Play/convert only first <number> video frames, then quit.

              --frames=0  loads  the  file,  but  immediately quits before initializing playback.
              (Might be useful for scripts which just want to determine some file properties.)

              For audio-only playback, any value greater than 0 will  quit  playback  immediately
              after initialization. The value 0 works as with video.

       --video-output-levels=<outputlevels>
              RGB  color levels used with YUV to RGB conversion. Normally, output devices such as
              PC monitors use full range color levels.  However,  some  TVs  and  video  monitors
              expect  studio RGB levels. Providing full range output to a device expecting studio
              level input results in crushed blacks and whites, the reverse in  dim  gray  blacks
              and dim whites.

              Not all VOs support this option. Some will silently ignore it.

              Available color ranges are:

              auto   automatic selection (equals to full range) (default)

              limited
                     limited range (16-235 per component), studio levels

              full   full range (0-255 per component), PC levels

              NOTE:
                 It  is  advisable  to  use your graphics driver's color range option instead, if
                 available.

       --hwdec-codecs=<codec1,codec2,...|all>
              Allow hardware decoding for a given list of codecs  only.  The  special  value  all
              always allows all codecs.

              You  can get the list of allowed codecs with mpv --vd=help. Remove the prefix, e.g.
              instead of lavc:h264 use h264.

              By default this is set to h264,vc1,wmv3,hevc,mpeg2video.  Note  that  the  hardware
              acceleration  special  codecs like h264_vdpau are not relevant anymore, and in fact
              have been removed from Libav in this form.

              This is usually only needed  with  broken  GPUs,  where  a  codec  is  reported  as
              supported, but decoding causes more problems than it solves.

                 Example

                 mpv --hwdec=vdpau --vo=vdpau --hwdec-codecs=h264,mpeg2video
                        Enable vdpau decoding for h264 and mpeg2 only.

       --vd-lavc-check-hw-profile=<yes|no>
              Check hardware decoder profile (default: yes). If no is set, the highest profile of
              the hardware decoder is unconditionally selected, and decoding is  forced  even  if
              the  profile  of  the  video is higher than that.  The result is most likely broken
              decoding, but may also help if  the  detected  or  reported  profiles  are  somehow
              incorrect.

       --vd-lavc-software-fallback=<yes|no|N>
              Fallback  to  software decoding if the hardware-accelerated decoder fails (default:
              3). If this is a number, then fallback will be triggered if N frames fail to decode
              in a row. 1 is equivalent to yes.

       --vd-lavc-bitexact
              Only use bit-exact algorithms in all decoding steps (for codec testing).

       --vd-lavc-fast (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 only)
              Enable  optimizations  which  do  not  comply  with  the  format  specification and
              potentially  cause  problems,   like   simpler   dequantization,   simpler   motion
              compensation,  assuming  use of the default quantization matrix, assuming YUV 4:2:0
              and skipping a few checks to detect damaged bitstreams.

       --vd-lavc-o=<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>[,...]]
              Pass AVOptions to libavcodec decoder. Note, a patch to make  the  o=  unneeded  and
              pass  all  unknown  options  through the AVOption system is welcome. A full list of
              AVOptions can be found in the FFmpeg manual.

              Some options which used to be direct options can be set with this  mechanism,  like
              bug, gray, idct, ec, vismv, skip_top (was st), skip_bottom (was sb), debug.

                 Example

                        --vd-lavc-o=debug=pict

       --vd-lavc-show-all=<yes|no>
              Show  even  broken/corrupt  frames  (default:  no).  If  this  option is set to no,
              libavcodec won't output frames that were either decoded before an initial  keyframe
              was decoded, or frames that are recognized as corrupted.

       --vd-lavc-skiploopfilter=<skipvalue> (H.264 only)
              Skips  the  loop  filter (AKA deblocking) during H.264 decoding. Since the filtered
              frame is supposed to be used as reference for decoding dependent frames, this has a
              worse  effect  on  quality  than  not doing deblocking on e.g. MPEG-2 video. But at
              least for high bitrate HDTV, this  provides  a  big  speedup  with  little  visible
              quality loss.

              <skipvalue> can be one of the following:

              none   Never skip.

              default
                     Skip useless processing steps (e.g. 0 size packets in AVI).

              nonref Skip  frames  that  are  not  referenced  (i.e.  not used for decoding other
                     frames, the error cannot "build up").

              bidir  Skip B-Frames.

              nonkey Skip all frames except keyframes.

              all    Skip all frames.

       --vd-lavc-skipidct=<skipvalue> (MPEG-1/2 only)
              Skips the IDCT step.  This  degrades  quality  a  lot  in  almost  all  cases  (see
              skiploopfilter for available skip values).

       --vd-lavc-skipframe=<skipvalue>
              Skips  decoding  of  frames completely. Big speedup, but jerky motion and sometimes
              bad artifacts (see skiploopfilter for available skip values).

       --vd-lavc-framedrop=<skipvalue>
              Set framedropping mode used with --framedrop (see skiploopfilter for available skip
              values).

       --vd-lavc-threads=<N>
              Number  of  threads  to  use  for decoding. Whether threading is actually supported
              depends on codec (default: 0). 0 means autodetect number of cores  on  the  machine
              and use that, up to the maximum of 16. You can set more than 16 threads manually.

   Audio
       --audio-pitch-correction=<yes|no>
              If  this  is  enabled  (default),  playing  with  a  speed  different  from  normal
              automatically inserts the scaletempo audio filter. For details,  see  audio  filter
              section.

       --audio-device=<name>
              Use  the  given  audio  device. This consists of the audio output name, e.g.  alsa,
              followed by /, followed by the audio output specific device name.

              You can list audio devices with --audio-device=help. This outputs the  device  name
              in  quotes,  followed by a description. The device name is what you have to pass to
              the --audio-device option.

              The default value for this option is  auto,  which  tries  every  audio  output  in
              preference order with the default device.

              Note  that  many AOs have a device sub-option, which overrides the device selection
              of this option (but not the audio output selection).  Likewise, forcing an AO  with
              --ao will override the audio output selection of --audio-device (but not the device
              selection).

              Currently not implemented for most AOs.

       --audio-fallback-to-null=<yes|no>
              If no audio device can be opened, behave as if --ao=null was given. This is  useful
              in  combination  with  --audio-device:  instead of causing an error if the selected
              device does not exist, the client API user (or a Lua  script)  could  let  playback
              continue  normally,  and  check  the current-ao and audio-device-list properties to
              make high-level decisions about how to continue.

       --ao=<driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
              Specify a priority list of audio output drivers to be used. For interactive use one
              would normally specify a single one to use, but in configuration files specifying a
              list of fallbacks may  make  sense.  See  AUDIO  OUTPUT  DRIVERS  for  details  and
              descriptions of available drivers.

       --af=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
              Specify a list of audio filters to apply to the audio stream. See AUDIO FILTERS for
              details and descriptions of the available filters.  The option  variants  --af-add,
              --af-pre,  --af-del  and  --af-clr exist to modify a previously specified list, but
              you should not need these for typical use.

       --audio-spdif=<codecs>
              List of codecs for which compressed audio passthrough should be  used.  This  works
              for both classic S/PDIF and HDMI.

              Possible  codecs  are  ac3,  dts,  dts-hd.  Multiple  codecs  can  be  specified by
              separating them with ,. dts refers to low bitrate DTS core, while dts-hd refers  to
              DTS  MA (receiver and OS support varies).  You should only use either dts or dts-hd
              (if both are specified, and dts comes first, only dts will be used).

              In general, all codecs in the spdif family listed with --ad=help are  supported  in
              theory.

                 Warning

                        There  is  not  much  reason  to  use  this.  HDMI  supports uncompressed
                        multichannel PCM, and mpv supports lossless DTS-HD decoding via  FFmpeg's
                        libdcadec wrapper.

       --ad=<[+|-]family1:(*|decoder1),[+|-]family2:(*|decoder2),...[-]>
              Specify a priority list of audio decoders to be used, according to their family and
              decoder name. Entries like family:* prioritize all decoders of  the  given  family.
              When  determining  which  decoder  to use, the first decoder that matches the audio
              format is selected. If that is unavailable, the next decoder is used.  Finally,  it
              tries  all  other  decoders  that  are  not  explicitly selected or rejected by the
              option.

              - at the end of the list suppresses fallback on other available decoders not on the
              --ad  list.  +  in  front  of an entry forces the decoder. Both of these should not
              normally be used, because they break normal decoder auto-selection!

              - in front of an entry disables selection of the decoder.

                 Examples

                 --ad=lavc:mp3float
                        Prefer the FFmpeg/Libav mp3float decoder over all other MP3 decoders.

                 --ad=spdif:ac3,lavc:*
                        Always prefer spdif AC3 over FFmpeg/Libav over anything else.

                 --ad=help
                        List all available decoders.

                 Warning

                        Enabling compressed audio passthrough (AC3 and DTS via  SPDIF/HDMI)  with
                        this option is deprecated. Use --audio-spdif instead.

       --volume=<value>
              Set  the  startup  volume.  0  means  silence,  100  means  no  volume reduction or
              amplification. A value of -1 (the default) will not change  the  volume.  See  also
              --softvol.

              NOTE:
                 This  was  changed  after  the  mpv 0.9 release. Before that, 100 actually meant
                 maximum volume. At the same time, the volume scale was made cubic,  so  the  old
                 values won't match up with the new ones anyway.

       --audio-delay=<sec>
              Audio  delay  in  seconds (positive or negative float value). Positive values delay
              the audio, and negative values delay the video.

       --no-audio
              Do not play sound.

       --mute=<auto|yes|no>
              Set startup audio mute status. auto (default) will not change the mute status. Also
              see --volume.

       --softvol=<mode>
              Control  whether  to  use  the  volume  controls  of the audio output driver or the
              internal mpv volume filter.

              no     prefer audio driver controls, use  the  volume  filter  only  if  absolutely
                     needed

              yes    always use the volume filter

              auto   prefer the volume filter if the audio driver uses the system mixer (default)

              The  intention  of  auto is to avoid changing system mixer settings from within mpv
              with default settings. mpv is a video player, not a  mixer  panel.   On  the  other
              hand,  mixer  controls are enabled for sound servers like PulseAudio, which provide
              per-application volume.

       --audio-demuxer=<[+]name>
              Use this audio demuxer type when using --audio-file. Use a '+' before the  name  to
              force  it;  this  will  skip  some  checks.  Give  the  demuxer  name as printed by
              --audio-demuxer=help.

       --ad-lavc-ac3drc=<level>
              Select the Dynamic Range Compression level for AC-3 audio streams.   <level>  is  a
              float  value  ranging  from  0  to  1,  where  0 means no compression (which is the
              default) and 1 means full compression (make loud  passages  more  silent  and  vice
              versa).  Values up to 6 are also accepted, but are purely experimental. This option
              only shows an effect if the AC-3 stream contains  the  required  range  compression
              information.

              The  standard  mandates  that  DRC  is  enabled by default, but mpv (and some other
              players) ignore this for the sake of better audio quality.

       --ad-lavc-downmix=<yes|no>
              Whether to request audio channel downmixing from the decoder (default: yes).   Some
              decoders, like AC-3, AAC and DTS, can remix audio on decoding. The requested number
              of output channels is set with the --audio-channels  option.   Useful  for  playing
              surround audio on a stereo system.

       --ad-lavc-threads=<0-16>
              Number  of  threads  to  use  for decoding. Whether threading is actually supported
              depends on codec. As of this writing, it's supported for some lossless codecs only.
              0  means  autodetect number of cores on the machine and use that, up to the maximum
              of 16 (default: 1).

       --ad-lavc-o=<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>[,...]]
              Pass AVOptions to libavcodec decoder. Note, a patch to make  the  o=  unneeded  and
              pass  all  unknown  options  through the AVOption system is welcome. A full list of
              AVOptions can be found in the FFmpeg manual.

       --ad-spdif-dtshd=<yes|no>, --dtshd, --no-dtshd
              If DTS is passed through, use DTS-HD.

                 Warning

                        This and enabling passthrough via --ad are deprecated in favor  of  using
                        --audio-spdif=dts-hd.

       --audio-channels=<number|layout>
              Request a channel layout for audio output (default: auto). This  will ask the AO to
              open a device with the given channel layout. It's up  to  the  AO  to  accept  this
              layout,  or  to  pick  a  fallback  or  to error out if the requested layout is not
              supported.

              The --audio-channels option either takes a channel number or  an  explicit  channel
              layout.  Channel numbers refer to default layouts, e.g. 2 channels refer to stereo,
              6 refers to 5.1.

              See --audio-channels=help output for  defined  default  layouts.  This  also  lists
              speaker  names,  which  can  be  used  to  express  arbitrary channel layouts (e.g.
              fl-fr-lfe is 2.1).

              The default is --audio-channels=auto, which tries to play  audio  using  the  input
              file's  channel  layout. (Or more precisely, the output of the audio filter chain.)
              (empty is an accepted obsolete alias for auto.)

              This will also request the channel layout from the decoder. If the decoder does not
              support  the  layout, it will fall back to its native channel layout.  (You can use
              --ad-lavc-downmix=no to make the decoder always output  its  native  layout.)  Note
              that  only some decoders support remixing audio.  Some that do include AC-3, AAC or
              DTS audio.

              If the channel layout of the media file (i.e. the decoder)  and  the  AO's  channel
              layout don't match, mpv will attempt to insert a conversion filter.

                 Warning

                        Using  auto  can  cause  issues  when  using audio over HDMI. The OS will
                        typically report all channel layouts that _can_ go over HDMI, even if the
                        receiver does not support them. If a receiver gets an unsupported channel
                        layout, random  things  can  happen,  such  as  dropping  the  additional
                        channels, or adding noise.

       --audio-display=<no|attachment>
              Setting  this  option  to attachment (default) will display image attachments (e.g.
              album cover art) when playing audio files. It will display the first  image  found,
              and additional images are available as video tracks.

              Setting  this  option  to  no disables display of video entirely when playing audio
              files.

              This option has no influence on files with normal video tracks.

       --audio-file=<filename>
              Play audio from an external file while viewing a video. Each  use  of  this  option
              will add a new audio track. The details are similar to how --sub-file works.

       --audio-format=<format>
              Select  the  sample format used for output from the audio filter layer to the sound
              card. The values that <format> can adopt are listed below in the description of the
              format audio filter.

       --audio-samplerate=<Hz>
              Select  the  output  sample  rate  to be used (of course sound cards have limits on
              this). If the sample frequency selected is  different  from  that  of  the  current
              media,  the  lavrresample audio filter will be inserted into the audio filter layer
              to compensate for the difference.

       --gapless-audio=<no|yes|weak>
              Try to play consecutive audio files with no silence or disruption at the  point  of
              file change. Default: weak.

              no     Disable gapless audio.

              yes    The  audio  device  is opened using parameters chosen according to the first
                     file played and is then kept open for gapless playback. This means  that  if
                     the  first  file for example has a low sample rate, then the following files
                     may get resampled to the same low sample rate, resulting  in  reduced  sound
                     quality. If you play files with different parameters, consider using options
                     such as --audio-samplerate and --audio-format to explicitly select what  the
                     shared output format will be.

              weak   Normally,  the  audio  device  is  kept  open (using the format it was first
                     initialized with). If the audio format the decoder output changes, the audio
                     device is closed and reopened. This means that you will normally get gapless
                     audio with files that were encoded using the same settings, but might not be
                     gapless  in  other  cases.   (Unlike with yes, you don't have to worry about
                     corner cases like the first file setting a very low quality  output  format,
                     and ruining the playback of higher quality files that follow.)

              NOTE:
                 This feature is implemented in a simple manner and relies on audio output device
                 buffering to continue playback  while  moving  from  one  file  to  another.  If
                 playback  of the new file starts slowly, for example because it is played from a
                 remote network location or  because  you  have  specified  cache  settings  that
                 require  time  for  the  initial cache fill, then the buffered audio may run out
                 before playback of the new file can start.

       --initial-audio-sync, --no-initial-audio-sync
              When starting a video file or after events such as seeking,  mpv  will  by  default
              modify  the  audio  stream  to  make  it start from the same timestamp as video, by
              either inserting silence at the start or cutting away the first samples.  Disabling
              this  option  makes  the player behave like older mpv versions did: video and audio
              are both started immediately even if their start timestamps differ, and then  video
              timing is gradually adjusted if necessary to reach correct synchronization later.

       --softvol-max=<100.0-1000.0>
              Set  the maximum amplification level in percent (default: 130). A value of 130 will
              allow you to adjust the volume up to about double the normal level.

       --audio-file-auto=<no|exact|fuzzy|all>, --no-audio-file-auto
              Load additional audio files matching the video filename.  The  parameter  specifies
              how external audio files are matched. exact is enabled by default.

              no     Don't automatically load external audio files.

              exact  Load the media filename with audio file extension (default).

              fuzzy  Load all audio files containing media filename.

              all    Load all audio files in the current directory.

       --audio-client-name=<name>
              The application name the player reports to the audio API. Can be useful if you want
              to force a different audio profile (e.g. with  PulseAudio),  or  to  set  your  own
              application name when using libmpv.

       --volume-restore-data=<string>
              Used internally for use by playback resume (e.g. with quit_watch_later).  Restoring
              value has to be done carefully, because different AOs as well as softvol  can  have
              different  value  ranges, and we don't want to restore volume if setting the volume
              changes it system wide. The normal options (like --volume)  would  always  set  the
              volume.  This  option was added for restoring volume in a safer way (by storing the
              method used to set the volume), and is not  generally  useful.  Its  semantics  are
              considered private to mpv.

              Do not use.

       --audio-buffer=<seconds>
              Set  the  audio  output  minimum  buffer.  The audio device might actually create a
              larger buffer if it pleases. If the device creates  a  smaller  buffer,  additional
              audio is buffered in an additional software buffer.

              Making  this larger will make soft-volume and other filters react slower, introduce
              additional issues on playback speed change, and block the player  on  audio  format
              changes. A smaller buffer might lead to audio dropouts.

              This  option  should  be  used  for  testing  only.  If  a  non-default value helps
              significantly, the mpv developers should be contacted.

              Default: 0.2 (200 ms).

   Subtitles
       --no-sub
              Do not select any subtitle when the file is loaded.

       --sub-demuxer=<[+]name>
              Force subtitle demuxer type for --sub-file. Give the demuxer  name  as  printed  by
              --sub-demuxer=help.

       --sub-delay=<sec>
              Delays subtitles by <sec> seconds. Can be negative.

       --sub-file=subtitlefile
              Add a subtitle file to the list of external subtitles.

              If you use --sub-file only once, this subtitle file is displayed by default.

              If  --sub-file  is  used  multiple  times,  the  subtitle to use can be switched at
              runtime by cycling subtitle tracks. It's possible to show two  subtitles  at  once:
              use  --sid  to  select  the first subtitle index, and --secondary-sid to select the
              second index. (The index is printed on the terminal output after the --sid= in  the
              list of streams.)

       --secondary-sid=<ID|auto|no>
              Select  a  secondary  subtitle  stream.  This  is  similar to --sid. If a secondary
              subtitle is selected, it will be rendered as toptitle  (i.e.  on  the  top  of  the
              screen)  alongside  the normal subtitle, and provides a way to render two subtitles
              at once.

              There are some caveats associated with this feature. For example, bitmap  subtitles
              will  always be rendered in their usual position, so selecting a bitmap subtitle as
              secondary subtitle will result in overlapping subtitles.  Secondary  subtitles  are
              never shown on the terminal if video is disabled.

              NOTE:
                 Styling  and interpretation of any formatting tags is disabled for the secondary
                 subtitle. Internally, the same mechanism as --no-sub-ass is used  to  strip  the
                 styling.

              NOTE:
                 If  the main subtitle stream contains formatting tags which display the subtitle
                 at the top of the screen, it  will  overlap  with  the  secondary  subtitle.  To
                 prevent this, you could use --no-sub-ass to disable styling in the main subtitle
                 stream.

       --sub-scale=<0-100>
              Factor for the text subtitle font size (default: 1).

              NOTE:
                 This affects  ASS  subtitles  as  well,  and  may  lead  to  incorrect  subtitle
                 rendering. Use with care, or use --sub-text-font-size instead.

       --sub-scale-by-window=<yes|no>
              Whether  to  scale  subtitles  with  the  window  size  (default:  yes). If this is
              disabled, changing the window size won't change the subtitle font size.

              Like --sub-scale, this can break ASS subtitles.

       --sub-scale-with-window=<yes|no>
              Make the subtitle font size relative to the window, instead of the video.  This  is
              useful  if you always want the same font size, even if the video doesn't covert the
              window fully, e.g. because screen aspect and window aspect mismatch (and the player
              adds black bars).

              Default: yes.

              This  option is misnamed. The difference to the confusingly similar sounding option
              --sub-scale-by-window  is  that  --sub-scale-with-window  still  scales  with   the
              approximate window size, while the other option disables this scaling.

              Affects  plain  text  subtitles  only  (or  ASS if --ass-style-override is set high
              enough).

       --ass-scale-with-window=<yes|no>
              Like --sub-scale-with-window, but affects  subtitles  in  ASS  format  only.   Like
              --sub-scale, this can break ASS subtitles.

              Default: no.

       --embeddedfonts, --no-embeddedfonts
              Use  fonts embedded in Matroska container files and ASS scripts (default: enabled).
              These fonts can be used for SSA/ASS subtitle rendering.

       --sub-pos=<0-100>
              Specify the position of subtitles on the screen. The value is the vertical position
              of the subtitle in % of the screen height.

              NOTE:
                 This  affects  ASS  subtitles  as  well,  and  may  lead  to  incorrect subtitle
                 rendering. Use with care, or use --sub-text-margin-y instead.

       --sub-speed=<0.1-10.0>
              Multiply the subtitle event timestamps with the given value. Can be used to fix the
              playback speed for frame-based subtitle formats. Affects text subtitles only.

                 Example

                        --sub-speed=25/23.976` plays frame based subtitles which have been loaded
                        assuming a framerate of 23.976 at 25 FPS.

       --ass-force-style=<[Style.]Param=Value[,...]>
              Override some style or script info parameters.

                 Examples

                 • --ass-force-style=FontName=Arial,Default.Bold=1--ass-force-style=PlayResY=768

              NOTE:
                 Using this option may lead to incorrect subtitle rendering.

       --ass-hinting=<none|light|normal|native>
              Set font hinting type. <type> can be:

              none   no hinting (default)

              light  FreeType autohinter, light mode

              normal FreeType autohinter, normal mode

              native font native hinter

                 Warning

                        Enabling hinting can lead  to  mispositioned  text  (in  situations  it's
                        supposed  to match up with video background), or reduce the smoothness of
                        animations with some badly authored ASS scripts. It is recommended to not
                        use this option, unless really needed.

       --ass-line-spacing=<value>
              Set line spacing value for SSA/ASS renderer.

       --ass-shaper=<simple|complex>
              Set the text layout engine used by libass.

              simple uses Fribidi only, fast, doesn't render some languages correctly

              complex
                     uses HarfBuzz, slower, wider language support

              complex  is  the  default.  If libass hasn't been compiled against HarfBuzz, libass
              silently reverts to simple.

       --ass-styles=<filename>
              Load all SSA/ASS styles found in the specified file and use them for rendering text
              subtitles.  The  syntax  of the file is exactly like the [V4 Styles] / [V4+ Styles]
              section of SSA/ASS.

              NOTE:
                 Using this option may lead to incorrect subtitle rendering.

       --ass-style-override=<yes|no|force>
              Control whether user style overrides should be applied.

              yes    Apply all the --ass-* style override options. Changing the default  for  any
                     of these options can lead to incorrect subtitle rendering (default).

              signfs like yes, but apply --sub-scale only to signs

              no     Render subtitles as forced by subtitle scripts.

              force  Try  to  force  the  font  style as defined by the --sub-text-* options. Can
                     break rendering easily.

       --ass-force-margins
              Enables placing toptitles and subtitles in black borders when they  are  available,
              if the subtitles are in the ASS format.

              Default: no.

       --sub-use-margins
              Enables  placing  toptitles and subtitles in black borders when they are available,
              if the subtitles are in a plain text format  (or ASS if --ass-style-override is set
              high enough).

              Default: yes.

              Renamed from --ass-use-margins. To place ASS subtitles in the borders too (like the
              old option did), also add --ass-force-margins.

       --ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat=<yes|no>
              Stretch SSA/ASS subtitles when playing anamorphic  videos  for  compatibility  with
              traditional  VSFilter  behavior. This switch has no effect when the video is stored
              with square pixels.

              The renderer historically most commonly used  for  the  SSA/ASS  subtitle  formats,
              VSFilter,  had questionable behavior that resulted in subtitles being stretched too
              if the video was stored in anamorphic format that  required  scaling  for  display.
              This  behavior  is  usually  undesirable  and  newer  VSFilter  versions may behave
              differently. However, many  existing  scripts  compensate  for  the  stretching  by
              modifying  things  in  the opposite direction.  Thus, if such scripts are displayed
              "correctly", they will not appear as intended.  This switch  enables  emulation  of
              the old VSFilter behavior (undesirable but expected by many existing scripts).

              Enabled by default.

       --ass-vsfilter-blur-compat=<yes|no>
              Scale  \blur  tags  by  video  resolution  instead of script resolution (enabled by
              default). This is bug in VSFilter, which according to some, can't be fixed  anymore
              in the name of compatibility.

              Note  that  this  uses the actual video resolution for calculating the offset scale
              factor, not what the video filter chain or the video output use.

       --ass-vsfilter-color-compat=<basic|full|force-601|no>
              Mangle colors like (xy-)vsfilter do (default: basic).  Historically,  VSFilter  was
              not  color  space aware. This was no problem as long as the color space used for SD
              video (BT.601) was used. But when everything switched to HD (BT.709), VSFilter  was
              still  converting  RGB  colors  to  BT.601, rendered them into the video frame, and
              handled the frame to the video output, which would use  BT.709  for  conversion  to
              RGB. The result were mangled subtitle colors. Later on, bad hacks were added on top
              of the ASS format to control how colors are to be mangled.

              basic  Handle only BT.601->BT.709 mangling, if the subtitles seem to indicate  that
                     this is required (default).

              full   Handle the full YCbCr Matrix header with all video color spaces supported by
                     libass and mpv. This might lead to bad breakages in corner cases and is  not
                     strictly  needed  for  compatibility  (hopefully),  which is why this is not
                     default.

              force-601
                     Force BT.601->BT.709 mangling, regardless of subtitle headers or video color
                     space.

              no     Disable color mangling completely. All colors are RGB.

              Choosing  anything  other  than no will make the subtitle color depend on the video
              color space, and it's for example in theory not possible to reuse a subtitle script
              with  another  video  file. The --ass-style-override option doesn't affect how this
              option is interpreted.

       --stretch-dvd-subs=<yes|no>
              Stretch DVD subtitles when playing anamorphic videos for better  looking  fonts  on
              badly mastered DVDs. This switch has no effect when the video is stored with square
              pixels - which for DVD input cannot be the case though.

              Many studios tend to use bitmap fonts designed for  square  pixels  when  authoring
              DVDs,  causing  the fonts to look stretched on playback on DVD players. This option
              fixes them, however at the price of possibly misaligning some subtitles (e.g.  sign
              translations).

              Disabled by default.

       --stretch-image-subs-to-screen=<yes|no>
              Stretch  DVD  and  other image subtitles to the screen, ignoring the video margins.
              This has a similar effect as --sub-use-margins for text subtitles, except that  the
              text  itself will be stretched, not only just repositioned. (At least in general it
              is unavoidable, as an image bitmap  can  in  theory  consist  of  a  single  bitmap
              covering  the  whole screen, and the player won't know where exactly the text parts
              are located.)

              This option does not display subtitles correctly. Use with care.

              Disabled by default.

       --sub-ass, --no-sub-ass
              Render ASS subtitles natively (enabled by default).

              If --no-sub-ass is specified, all tags and  style  declarations  are  stripped  and
              ignored  on  display. The subtitle renderer uses the font style as specified by the
              --sub-text- options instead.

              NOTE:
                 Using --no-sub-ass may lead to  incorrect  or  completely  broken  rendering  of
                 ASS/SSA  subtitles.  It can sometimes be useful to forcibly override the styling
                 of ASS subtitles, but should be avoided in general.

              NOTE:
                 Try using --ass-style-override=force instead.

       --sub-auto=<no|exact|fuzzy|all>, --no-sub-auto
              Load additional subtitle files matching the video filename. The parameter specifies
              how external subtitle files are matched. exact is enabled by default.

              no     Don't automatically load external subtitle files.

              exact  Load the media filename with subtitle file extension (default).

              fuzzy  Load all subs containing media filename.

              all    Load all subs in the current and --sub-paths directories.

       --sub-codepage=<codepage>
              If  your  system supports iconv(3), you can use this option to specify the subtitle
              codepage. By default, uchardet will be used to guess the charset.  If  mpv  is  not
              compiled  with  uchardet,  enca  will  be  used.   If  mpv is compiled with neither
              uchardet nor enca, UTF-8:UTF-8-BROKEN is the default, which means it  will  try  to
              use UTF-8, otherwise the UTF-8-BROKEN pseudo codepage (see below).

              The  default  value for this option is auto, whose actual effect depends on whether
              ENCA is compiled.

                 Warning

                        If you force the charset, even subtitles that are known to be UTF-8  will
                        be  recoded,  which is perhaps not what you expect. Prefix codepages with
                        utf8: if you want the codepage to be used only if the input is not  valid
                        UTF-8.

                 Examples

                 • --sub-codepage=utf8:latin2 Use Latin 2 if input is not UTF-8.

                 • --sub-codepage=cp1250 Always force recoding to cp1250.

              The  pseudo  codepage  UTF-8-BROKEN  is  used  internally. When it is the codepage,
              subtitles are interpreted as UTF-8 with "Latin 1" as fallback for bytes  which  are
              not valid UTF-8 sequences. iconv is never involved in this mode.

              If the player was compiled with ENCA support, you can control it with the following
              syntax:

              --sub-codepage=enca:<language>:<fallback codepage>

              Language is specified using a two letter code to  help  ENCA  detect  the  codepage
              automatically.  If  an invalid language code is entered, mpv will complain and list
              valid languages.  (Note however that this  list  will  only  be  printed  when  the
              conversion code is actually called, for example when loading an external subtitle).
              The fallback codepage is used if autodetection fails.  If no fallback is specified,
              UTF-8-BROKEN is used.

                 Examples

                 • --sub-codepage=enca:pl:cp1250  guess  the encoding, assuming the subtitles are
                   Polish, fall back on cp1250

                 • --sub-codepage=enca:pl guess the encoding for Polish, fall back on UTF-8.

                 • --sub-codepage=enca try universal detection, fall back on UTF-8.

              If the player was compiled with libguess support, you can use it with:

              --sub-codepage=guess:<language>:<fallback codepage>

              libguess always needs a  language.  There  is  no  universal  detection  mode.  Use
              --sub-codepage=guess:help  to get a list of languages subject to the same caveat as
              with ENCA above.

              If the player was compiled with uchardet support you can use it with:

              --sub-codepage=uchardet

              This mode doesn't take language or fallback codepage.

       --sub-fix-timing, --no-sub-fix-timing
              By default, subtitle timing is adjusted to remove minor gaps  or  overlaps  between
              subtitles  (if  the  difference  is  smaller  than  210  ms,  the gap or overlap is
              removed).

       --sub-forced-only
              Display only forced  subtitles  for  the  DVD  subtitle  stream  selected  by  e.g.
              --slang.

       --sub-fps=<rate>
              Specify  the  framerate  of  the  subtitle  file (default: video fps). Affects text
              subtitles only.

              NOTE:
                 <rate> > video fps speeds the subtitles up for frame-based  subtitle  files  and
                 slows them down for time-based ones.

              Also see --sub-speed option.

       --sub-gauss=<0.0-3.0>
              Apply Gaussian blur to image subtitles (default: 0). This can help making pixelated
              DVD/Vobsubs look nicer. A value other than 0 also  switches  to  software  subtitle
              scaling. Might be slow.

              NOTE:
                 Never applied to text subtitles.

       --sub-gray
              Convert  image  subtitles  to  grayscale.  Can  help making yellow DVD/Vobsubs look
              nicer.

              NOTE:
                 Never applied to text subtitles.

       --sub-paths=<path1:path2:...>
              Specify extra directories to search for subtitles  matching  the  video.   Multiple
              directories  can  be  separated  by ":" (";" on Windows).  Paths can be relative or
              absolute. Relative paths are interpreted relative to video file directory.

                 Example

                        Assuming     that     /path/to/video/video.avi     is     played      and
                        --sub-paths=sub:subtitles:/tmp/subs   is   specified,  mpv  searches  for
                        subtitle files in these directories:

                 • /path/to/video//path/to/video/sub//path/to/video/subtitles//tmp/subs/

                 • the sub configuration subdirectory (usually ~/.config/mpv/sub/)

       --sub-visibility, --no-sub-visibility
              Can be used to disable display of subtitles, but still select and decode them.

       --sub-clear-on-seek
              (Obscure, rarely useful.) Can be used to  play  broken  mkv  files  with  duplicate
              ReadOrder  fields.  ReadOrder  is  the first field in a Matroska-style ASS subtitle
              packets. It  should  be  unique,  and  libass  uses  it  for  fast  elimination  of
              duplicates. This option disables caching of subtitles across seeks, so after a seek
              libass can't eliminate subtitle packets with the same ReadOrder as earlier packets.

   Window
       --title=<string>
              Set the window title. This is used for the video window, and if possible, also sets
              the audio stream title.

              Properties are expanded. (See Property Expansion.)

              WARNING:
                 There  is  a  danger  of  this  causing  significant CPU usage, depending on the
                 properties used. Changing the window title is often a slow operation, and if the
                 title changes every frame, playback can be ruined.

       --screen=<default|0-32>
              In  multi-monitor  configurations (i.e. a single desktop that spans across multiple
              displays), this option tells mpv which screen to display the video on.

                 Note (X11)

                        This option does not work properly with all  window  managers.  In  these
                        cases,  you  can try to use --geometry to position the window explicitly.
                        It's also possible that the window manager provides  native  features  to
                        control which screens application windows should use.

              See also --fs-screen.

       --fullscreen, --fs
              Fullscreen playback.

       --fs-screen=<all|current|0-32>
              In  multi-monitor  configurations (i.e. a single desktop that spans across multiple
              displays), this option tells mpv which screen to go fullscreen to.  If  default  is
              provided  mpv  will  fallback  on  using  the  behavior  depending on what the user
              provided with the screen option.

                 Note (X11)

                        This  option  does  works  properly  only  with  window  managers   which
                        understand the EWMH _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS hint.

                 Note (OS X)

                        all does not work on OS X and will behave like current.

              See also --screen.

       --fs-black-out-screens
          OS X only. Black out other displays when going fullscreen.

       --keep-open=<yes|no|always>
              Do  not  terminate when playing or seeking beyond the end of the file, and there is
              not next file to be played (and --loop is not used).  Instead,  pause  the  player.
              When  trying to seek beyond end of the file, the player will attempt to seek to the
              last frame.

              The following arguments can be given:

              no     If the current file ends, go to the next file or terminate.  (Default.)

              yes    Don't terminate if the current file is the last playlist entry.   Equivalent
                     to --keep-open without arguments.

              always Like  yes,  but  also  applies to files before the last playlist entry. This
                     means playback will never automatically advance to the next file.

              NOTE:
                 This option is not respected when using --frames.  Explicitly  skipping  to  the
                 next file if the binding uses force will terminate playback as well.

                 Also, if errors or unusual circumstances happen, the player can quit anyway.

              Since mpv 0.6.0, this doesn't pause if there is a next file in the playlist, or the
              playlist is looped. Approximately, this will pause when the player  would  normally
              exit,  but  in  practice there are corner cases in which this is not the case (e.g.
              mpv --keep-open file.mkv /dev/null will play file.mkv normally, then fail  to  open
              /dev/null, then exit). (In mpv 0.8.0, always was introduced, which restores the old
              behavior.)

       --force-window=<yes|no|immediate>
              Create a video output window even if there is no video. This  can  be  useful  when
              pretending that mpv is a GUI application. Currently, the window always has the size
              640x480, and is subject to --geometry, --autofit, and similar options.

              WARNING:
                 The window is created only after initialization (to  make  sure  default  window
                 placement  still  works  if  the video size is different from the --force-window
                 default window size). This can be  a  problem  if  initialization  doesn't  work
                 perfectly,  such  as  when  opening URLs with bad network connection, or opening
                 broken video files. The immediate mode can be used to create the  window  always
                 on program start, but this may cause other issues.

       --ontop
              Makes the player window stay on top of other windows.

              On  Windows,  if  combined  with  fullscreen mode, this causes mpv to be treated as
              exclusive fullscreen window that bypasses the Desktop Window Manager.

       --border, --no-border
              Play video with window border and decorations. Since this is  on  by  default,  use
              --no-border to disable the standard window decorations.

       --on-all-workspaces
              (X11 only) Show the video window on all virtual desktops.

       --geometry=<[W[xH]][+-x+-y]>, --geometry=<x:y>
              Adjust  the initial window position or size. W and H set the window size in pixels.
              x and y set the window position, measured in pixels from the top-left corner of the
              screen  to  the  top-left corner of the image being displayed. If a percentage sign
              (%) is given after the argument, it turns the value into a percentage of the screen
              size  in  that  direction.   Positions  are  specified  similar to the standard X11
              --geometry option format, in which e.g. +10-50 means "place 10 pixels from the left
              border  and  50 pixels from the lower border" and "--20+-10" means "place 20 pixels
              beyond the right and 10 pixels beyond the top border".

              If an external window is specified using the --wid option, this option is ignored.

              The coordinates are relative to the screen given with --screen for the video output
              drivers that fully support --screen.

              NOTE:
                 Generally only supported by GUI VOs. Ignored for encoding.

                 Note (X11)

                        This option does not work properly with all window managers.

                 Examples

                 50:40  Places the window at x=50, y=40.

                 50%:50%
                        Places the window in the middle of the screen.

                 100%:100%
                        Places the window at the bottom right corner of the screen.

                 50%    Sets  the  window width to half the screen width. Window height is set so
                        that the window has the video aspect ratio.

                 50%x50%
                        Forces the window width and height to half the screen width  and  height.
                        Will  show  black borders to compensate for the video aspect ration (with
                        most VOs and without --no-keepaspect).

                 50%+10+10
                        Sets the window to half the screen widths, and  positions  it  10  pixels
                        below/left of the top left corner of the screen.

              See  also  --autofit  and --autofit-larger for fitting the window into a given size
              without changing aspect ratio.

       --autofit=<[W[xH]]>
              Set the initial window size to a maximum size specified by  WxH,  without  changing
              the  window's  aspect  ratio.  The  size  is  measured in pixels, or if a number is
              followed by a percentage sign (%), in percents of the screen size.

              This option never changes the aspect ratio of  the  window.  If  the  aspect  ratio
              mismatches, the window's size is reduced until it fits into the specified size.

              Window  position  is not taken into account, nor is it modified by this option (the
              window manager still may place the  window  differently  depending  on  size).  Use
              --geometry  to  change  the  window  position.  Its  effects are applied after this
              option.

              See --geometry for details how this is handled with multi-monitor setups.

              Use --autofit-larger instead if you just want to limit  the  maximum  size  of  the
              window, rather than always forcing a window size.

              Use  --geometry  if  you  want  to force both window width and height to a specific
              size.

              NOTE:
                 Generally only supported by GUI VOs. Ignored for encoding.

                 Examples

                 70%    Make the window width 70% of the screen size, keeping aspect ratio.

                 1000   Set the window width to 1000 pixels, keeping aspect ratio.

                 70%:60%
                        Make the window as large as possible, without being wider than 70% of the
                        screen width, or higher than 60% of the screen height.

       --autofit-larger=<[W[xH]]>
              This  option behaves exactly like --autofit, except the window size is only changed
              if the window would be larger than the specified size.

                 Example

                 90%x80%
                        If the video is larger than 90% of the screen width or 80% of the  screen
                        height,  make  the  window  smaller  until either its width is 90% of the
                        screen, or its height is 80% of the screen.

       --autofit-smaller=<[W[xH]]>
              This option behaves exactly like --autofit, except that it sets the minimum size of
              the window (just as --autofit-larger sets the maximum).

                 Example

                 500x500
                        Make  the  window at least 500 pixels wide and 500 pixels high (depending
                        on the video aspect ratio, the width or height will be larger than 500 in
                        order to keep the aspect ratio the same).

       --window-scale=<factor>
              Resize  the video window to a multiple (or fraction) of the video size. This option
              is applied before --autofit and other options are applied (so  they  override  this
              option).

              For example, --window-scale=0.5 would show the window at half the video size.

       --cursor-autohide=<number|no|always>
              Make  mouse  cursor automatically hide after given number of milliseconds.  no will
              disable cursor autohide. always means the cursor will stay hidden.

       --cursor-autohide-fs-only
              If this option is given,  the  cursor  is  always  visible  in  windowed  mode.  In
              fullscreen mode, the cursor is shown or hidden according to --cursor-autohide.

       --no-fixed-vo, --fixed-vo
              --no-fixed-vo  enforces  closing  and reopening the video window for multiple files
              (one (un)initialization for each file).

       --force-rgba-osd-rendering
              Change how some video outputs render the OSD and  text  subtitles.  This  does  not
              change  appearance  of the subtitles and only has performance implications. For VOs
              which support native ASS rendering (like vdpau,  opengl,  direct3d),  this  can  be
              slightly  faster  or  slower, depending on GPU drivers and hardware. For other VOs,
              this just makes rendering slower.

       --force-window-position
              Forcefully move mpv's video output window to default location whenever there  is  a
              change  in  video  parameters,  video  stream  or file. This used to be the default
              behavior. Currently only affects X11 VOs.

       --heartbeat-cmd=<command>
              Command that is executed every 30 seconds during playback via system() - i.e. using
              the   shell.   The   time   between   the  commands  can  be  customized  with  the
              --heartbeat-interval option. The command is not run while playback is paused.

              NOTE:
                 mpv uses this command without any checking. It is your responsibility to  ensure
                 it  does not cause security problems (e.g. make sure to use full paths if "." is
                 in your path like on Windows). It also only works when playing video  (i.e.  not
                 with --no-video but works with -vo=null).

              This  can be "misused" to disable screensavers that do not support the proper X API
              (see also --stop-screensaver). If you think this is too complicated, ask the author
              of   the  screensaver  program  to  support  the  proper  X  APIs.  Note  that  the
              --stop-screensaver does not influence the heartbeat code at all.

                 Example for xscreensaver

                        mpv --heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate" file

                 Example for GNOME screensaver

                        mpv --heartbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver-command -p" file

       --heartbeat-interval=<sec>
              Time between --heartbeat-cmd invocations in seconds (default: 30).

              NOTE:
                 This does not affect the normal screensaver operation in any way.

       --no-keepaspect, --keepaspect
              --no-keepaspect will always stretch the video to window size, and will disable  the
              window  manager  hints  that force the window aspect ratio.  (Ignored in fullscreen
              mode.)

       --no-keepaspect-window, --keepaspect-window
              --keepaspect-window (the default) will lock the window size to  the  video  aspect.
              --no-keepaspect-window  disables  this behavior, and will instead add black bars if
              window aspect and video aspect mismatch. Whether this actually works depends on the
              VO backend.  (Ignored in fullscreen mode.)

       --monitoraspect=<ratio>
              Set the aspect ratio of your monitor or TV screen. A value of 0 disables a previous
              setting (e.g. in the config file). Overrides the  --monitorpixelaspect  setting  if
              enabled.

              See also --monitorpixelaspect and --video-aspect.

                 Examples

                 • --monitoraspect=4:3  or --monitoraspect=1.3333--monitoraspect=16:9 or --monitoraspect=1.7777

       --monitorpixelaspect=<ratio>
              Set the aspect of a single pixel of your monitor or TV screen (default: 1). A value
              of 1 means square pixels (correct for (almost?) all LCDs). See also --monitoraspect
              and --video-aspect.

       --stop-screensaver, --no-stop-screensaver
              Turns off the screensaver (or screen blanker and similar mechanisms) at startup and
              turns it on again on exit (default: yes). The screensaver is always re-enabled when
              the player is paused.

              This  is  not  supported  on  all  video  outputs  or  platforms.  Sometimes  it is
              implemented, but does not work (happens often on GNOME). You might be  able  to  to
              work this around using --heartbeat-cmd instead.

       --wid=<ID>
              This  tells  mpv to attach to an existing window. If a VO is selected that supports
              this option, it will use that window for video output. mpv will scale the video  to
              the  size of this window, and will add black bars to compensate if the aspect ratio
              of the video is different.

              On X11, the ID is interpreted as a Window  on  X11.  Unlike  MPlayer/mplayer2,  mpv
              always  creates  its own window, and sets the wid window as parent. The window will
              always be resized to cover the parent window fully.  The  value  0  is  interpreted
              specially, and mpv will draw directly on the root window.

              On  win32,  the  ID  is interpreted as HWND. Pass it as value cast to intptr_t. mpv
              will create its own window, and set the wid window as parent, like with X11.

              On OSX/Cocoa, the ID is interpreted as NSView*. Pass it as value cast to  intptr_t.
              mpv will creates its own sub-view. Because OSX does not support window embedding of
              foreign processes, this works only with libmpv, and will crash when used  from  the
              command line.

       --no-window-dragging
              Don't move the window when clicking on it and moving the mouse pointer.

       --x11-name
              Set the window class name for X11-based video output methods.

       --x11-netwm=<yes|no|auto>
              (X11 only) Control the use of NetWM protocol features.

              This  may  or  may  not  help  with  broken  window  managers.  This  provides some
              functionality that was implemented by the now removed --fstype  option.   Actually,
              it  is  not  known  to  the  developers  to which degree this option was needed, so
              feedback is welcome.

              Specifically, yes  will  force  use  of  NetWM  fullscreen  support,  even  if  not
              advertised  by  the WM. This can be useful for WMs that are broken on purpose, like
              XMonad. (XMonad supposedly doesn't advertise fullscreen support, because Flash uses
              it.  Apparently,  applications  which want to use fullscreen anyway are supposed to
              either ignore the NetWM support hints, or provide a workaround. Shame on XMonad for
              deliberately breaking X protocols (as if X isn't bad enough already).

              By default, NetWM support is autodetected (auto).

              This option might be removed in the future.

       --x11-bypass-compositor=<yes|no>
              If set to yes (default), then ask the compositor to unredirect the mpv window. This
              uses the _NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR hint.

   Disc Devices
       --cdrom-device=<path>
              Specify the CD-ROM device (default: /dev/cdrom).

       --dvd-device=<path>
              Specify the DVD device or .iso filename (default: /dev/dvd). You can also specify a
              directory  that  contains  files  previously  copied directly from a DVD (with e.g.
              vobcopy).

                 Example

                        mpv dvd:// --dvd-device=/path/to/dvd/

       --bluray-device=<path>
              (Blu-ray only) Specify the Blu-ray disc location. Must be a directory with  Blu-ray
              structure.

                 Example

                        mpv bd:// --bluray-device=/path/to/bd/

       --bluray-angle=<ID>
              Some  Blu-ray  discs  contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles.  This
              option tells mpv which angle to use (default: 1).

       --cdda-...
              These options can be used to tune the CD Audio reading feature of mpv.

       --cdda-speed=<value>
              Set CD spin speed.

       --cdda-paranoia=<0-2>
              Set paranoia level. Values other than 0 seem to break playback of anything but  the
              first track.

              0      disable checking (default)

              1      overlap checking only

              2      full data correction and verification

       --cdda-sector-size=<value>
              Set atomic read size.

       --cdda-overlap=<value>
              Force minimum overlap search during verification to <value> sectors.

       --cdda-toc-bias
              Assume  that  the  beginning  offset  of  track  1  as  reported in the TOC will be
              addressed as LBA 0. Some discs need this for getting track boundaries correctly.

       --cdda-toc-offset=<value>
              Add <value> sectors  to  the  values  reported  when  addressing  tracks.   May  be
              negative.

       --cdda-skip=<yes|no>
              (Never) accept imperfect data reconstruction.

       --cdda-cdtext=<yes|no>
              Print  CD  text.  This  is  disabled  by default, because it ruins performance with
              CD-ROM drives for unknown reasons.

       --dvd-speed=<speed>
              Try to limit DVD speed (default: 0, no change). DVD base speed is 1385 kB/s, so  an
              8x  drive  can  read  at speeds up to 11080 kB/s. Slower speeds make the drive more
              quiet. For watching DVDs, 2700 kB/s should be quiet and fast enough. mpv resets the
              speed  to  the  drive default value on close.  Values of at least 100 mean speed in
              kB/s. Values less than 100 mean multiples of 1385 kB/s, i.e. --dvd-speed=8  selects
              11080 kB/s.

              NOTE:
                 You need write access to the DVD device to change the speed.

       --dvd-angle=<ID>
              Some  DVDs  contain  scenes  that  can be viewed from multiple angles.  This option
              tells mpv which angle to use (default: 1).

   Equalizer
       --brightness=<-100-100>
              Adjust the brightness of the video signal (default: 0). Not supported by all  video
              output drivers.

       --contrast=<-100-100>
              Adjust  the  contrast  of the video signal (default: 0). Not supported by all video
              output drivers.

       --saturation=<-100-100>
              Adjust the saturation of the video signal  (default:  0).  You  can  get  grayscale
              output with this option. Not supported by all video output drivers.

       --gamma=<-100-100>
              Adjust  the  gamma  of  the  video  signal (default: 0). Not supported by all video
              output drivers.

       --hue=<-100-100>
              Adjust the hue of the video signal (default: 0). You can get a colored negative  of
              the image with this option. Not supported by all video output drivers.

   Demuxer
       --demuxer=<[+]name>
              Force  demuxer  type.  Use  a  '+' before the name to force it; this will skip some
              checks. Give the demuxer name as printed by --demuxer=help.

       --demuxer-lavf-analyzeduration=<value>
              Maximum length in seconds to analyze the stream properties.

       --demuxer-lavf-probescore=<1-100>
              Minimum required libavformat probe score. Lower values will require less data to be
              loaded (makes streams start faster), but makes file format detection less reliable.
              Can be used to  force  auto-detected  libavformat  demuxers,  even  if  libavformat
              considers the detection not reliable enough. (Default: 26.)

       --demuxer-lavf-allow-mimetype=<yes|no>
              Allow deriving the format from the HTTP MIME type (default: yes). Set this to no in
              case playing things from HTTP mysteriously fails, even though the same  files  work
              from local disk.

              This is default in order to reduce latency when opening HTTP streams.

       --demuxer-lavf-format=<name>
              Force a specific libavformat demuxer.

       --demuxer-lavf-hacks=<yes|no>
              By  default,  some  formats  will  be  handled  differently  from  other formats by
              explicitly checking for them. Most of  these  compensate  for  weird  or  imperfect
              behavior  from  libavformat  demuxers. Passing no disables these. For debugging and
              testing only.

       --demuxer-lavf-genpts-mode=<no|lavf>
              Mode for  deriving  missing  packet  PTS  values  from  packet  DTS.  lavf  enables
              libavformat's  genpts  option.  no disables it. This used to be enabled by default,
              but then it was deemed as not  needed  anymore.   Enabling  this  might  help  with
              timestamp problems, or make them worse.

       --demuxer-lavf-o=<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>[,...]]
              Pass AVOptions to libavformat demuxer.

              Note,  a  patch  to  make  the o= unneeded and pass all unknown options through the
              AVOption system is welcome. A full list of AVOptions can be  found  in  the  FFmpeg
              manual. Note that some options may conflict with mpv options.

                 Example

                        --demuxer-lavf-o=fflags=+ignidx

       --demuxer-lavf-probesize=<value>
              Maximum  amount of data to probe during the detection phase. In the case of MPEG-TS
              this value identifies the maximum number of TS packets to scan.

       --demuxer-lavf-buffersize=<value>
              Size of the stream read buffer allocated for libavformat in bytes (default: 32768).
              Lowering  the  size could lower latency. Note that libavformat might reallocate the
              buffer internally, or not fully use all of it.

       --demuxer-lavf-cryptokey=<hexstring>
              Encryption key the demuxer should use. This is the  raw  binary  data  of  the  key
              converted to a hexadecimal string.

       --demuxer-mkv-subtitle-preroll, --mkv-subtitle-preroll
              Try harder to show embedded soft subtitles when seeking somewhere. Normally, it can
              happen that the subtitle at the seek target is not shown due to how some  container
              file  formats  are designed. The subtitles appear only if seeking before or exactly
              to the position a subtitle first appears. To make this worse, subtitles  are  often
              timed  to  appear  a  very  small amount before the associated video frame, so that
              seeking to the video frame typically does not demux the subtitle at that position.

              Enabling this option makes the demuxer start reading data a  bit  before  the  seek
              target,  so  that  subtitles appear correctly. Note that this makes seeking slower,
              and is not guaranteed to always work. It only works if the subtitle is close enough
              to the seek target.

              Works  with  the  internal  Matroska  demuxer only. Always enabled for absolute and
              hr-seeks, and this option changes behavior with relative or imprecise seeks only.

              You can use the --demuxer-mkv-subtitle-preroll-secs option to specify how much data
              the  demuxer  should  pre-read  at  most in order to find subtitle packets that may
              overlap. Setting this to 0 will effectively disable this preroll mechanism. Setting
              a  very  large value can make seeking very slow, and an extremely large value would
              completely reread the entire file from start to seek target on every seek - seeking
              can become slower towards the end of the file. The details are messy, and the value
              is actually rounded down to the cluster with the previous video keyframe.

              Some files, especially files muxed with newer mkvmerge versions,  have  information
              embedded  that  can  be used to determine what subtitle packets overlap with a seek
              target. In these cases, mpv will reduce the amount  of  data  read  to  a  minimum.
              (Although  it  will still read all data between the cluster that contains the first
              wanted subtitle packet, and the seek target.)

              See also --hr-seek-demuxer-offset option. This option can achieve a similar effect,
              but  only  if  hr-seek is active. It works with any demuxer, but makes seeking much
              slower, as it has to decode audio and video data instead of just skipping over it.

              --mkv-subtitle-preroll is a deprecated alias.

       --demuxer-mkv-subtitle-preroll-secs=<value>
              See --demuxer-mkv-subtitle-preroll.

       --demuxer-mkv-probe-video-duration=<yes|no|full>
              When opening the file, seek to the end of it, and check  what  timestamp  the  last
              video  packet  has,  and  report  that  as  file  duration.  This  is  strictly for
              compatibility with Haali only. In this mode, it's possible  that  opening  will  be
              slower  (especially  when playing over http), or that behavior with broken files is
              much worse. So don't use this option.

              The yes mode merely uses the index and reads a small number of blocks from the  end
              of  the  file.  The  full  mode  actually  traverses the entire file and can make a
              reliable estimate even without an index present (such as partial files).

       --demuxer-rawaudio-channels=<value>
              Number of channels (or channel layout)  if  --demuxer=rawaudio  is  used  (default:
              stereo).

       --demuxer-rawaudio-format=<value>
              Sample     format     for     --demuxer=rawaudio     (default:     s16le).      Use
              --demuxer-rawaudio-format=help to get a list of all formats.

       --demuxer-rawaudio-rate=<value>
              Sample rate for --demuxer=rawaudio (default: 44 kHz).

       --demuxer-rawvideo-fps=<value>
              Rate in frames per second for --demuxer=rawvideo (default: 25.0).

       --demuxer-rawvideo-w=<value>, --demuxer-rawvideo-h=<value>
              Image dimension in pixels for --demuxer=rawvideo.

                 Example

                        Play a raw YUV sample:

                     mpv sample-720x576.yuv --demuxer=rawvideo \
                     --demuxer-rawvideo-w=720 --demuxer-rawvideo-h=576

       --demuxer-rawvideo-format=<value>
              Color space (fourcc) in hex or string for --demuxer=rawvideo (default: YV12).

       --demuxer-rawvideo-mp-format=<value>
              Color   space   by   internal   video   format    for    --demuxer=rawvideo.    Use
              --demuxer-rawvideo-mp-format=help for a list of possible formats.

       --demuxer-rawvideo-codec=<value>
              Set   the   video  codec  instead  of  selecting  the  rawvideo  codec  when  using
              --demuxer=rawvideo. This uses the same values as codec names in --vd (but  it  does
              not accept decoder names).

       --demuxer-rawvideo-size=<value>
              Frame size in bytes when using --demuxer=rawvideo.

       --demuxer-max-packets=<packets>, --demuxer-max-bytes=<bytes>
              This  controls  how  much  the demuxer is allowed to buffer ahead. The demuxer will
              normally try to read ahead as much as necessary,  or  as  much  is  requested  with
              --demuxer-readahead-secs.  The  --demuxer-max-...   options can be used to restrict
              the maximum readahead. This limits excessive readahead in case of broken  files  or
              desynced  playback. The demuxer will stop reading additional packets as soon as one
              of the limits is reached.  (The limits still can be  slightly  overstepped  due  to
              technical reasons.)

              Set  these limits highher if you get a packet queue overflow warning, and you think
              normal playback would be possible with a larger packet queue.

              See --list-options for defaults and value range.

       --demuxer-thread=<yes|no>
              Run the demuxer in a separate thread, and let  it  prefetch  a  certain  amount  of
              packets  (default:  yes). Having this enabled may lead to smoother playback, but on
              the other hand can add delays to seeking or track switching.

       --demuxer-readahead-secs=<seconds>
              If --demuxer-thread is enabled, this controls how much the  demuxer  should  buffer
              ahead  in  seconds  (default:  1).  As long as no packet has a timestamp difference
              higher than the readahead amount relative  to  the  last  packet  returned  to  the
              decoder, the demuxer keeps reading.

              Note  that  the --cache-secs option will override this value if a cache is enabled,
              and the value is larger.

              (This value tends to be  fuzzy,  because  many  file  formats  don't  store  linear
              timestamps.)

       --force-seekable=<yes|no>
              If  the  player thinks that the media is not seekable (e.g. playing from a pipe, or
              it's a http stream with a server that doesn't support range requests), seeking will
              be  disabled.  This  option  can  forcibly  enable it.  For seeks within the cache,
              there's a good chance of success.

   Input
       --native-keyrepeat
              Use system settings for keyrepeat delay and rate, instead of  --input-ar-delay  and
              --input-ar-rate. (Whether this applies depends on the VO backend and how it handles
              keyboard input. Does not apply to terminal input.)

       --input-ar-delay
              Delay in milliseconds before we start to autorepeat a key (0 to disable).

       --input-ar-rate
              Number of key presses to generate per second on autorepeat.

       --input-conf=<filename>
              Specify input configuration file  other  than  the  default  location  in  the  mpv
              configuration directory (usually ~/.config/mpv/input.conf).

       --no-input-default-bindings
              Disable mpv default (built-in) key bindings.

       --input-cmdlist
              Prints all commands that can be bound to keys.

       --input-doubleclick-time=<milliseconds>
              Time  in milliseconds to recognize two consecutive button presses as a double-click
              (default: 300).

       --input-keylist
              Prints all keys that can be bound to commands.

       --input-key-fifo-size=<2-65000>
              Specify the size of the FIFO that buffers key events (default: 7).  If  it  is  too
              small  some events may be lost. The main disadvantage of setting it to a very large
              value is that if you hold down a key triggering some particularly slow command then
              the player may be unresponsive while it processes all the queued commands.

       --input-test
              Input  test  mode.  Instead of executing commands on key presses, mpv will show the
              keys and the bound commands on the OSD. Has to be used with a dummy video, and  the
              normal  ways to quit the player will not work (key bindings that normally quit will
              be shown on OSD only, just like any other binding). See INPUT.CONF.

       --input-file=<filename>
              Read commands from the given file. Mostly useful with a FIFO. Since mpv 0.7.0  also
              understands  JSON commands (see JSON IPC), but you can't get replies or events. Use
              --input-unix-socket for something bi-directional. On MS Windows, JSON commands  are
              not available.

              This  can  also  specify a direct file descriptor with fd://N (UNIX only).  In this
              case, JSON replies will be written if the FD is writable.

              NOTE:
                 When the given file is a FIFO mpv opens both ends, so you can  do  several  echo
                 "seek 10" > mp_pipe and the pipe will stay valid.

       --input-terminal, --no-input-terminal
              --no-input-terminal  prevents  the  player  from  reading  key events from standard
              input. Useful when reading data from standard input. This is automatically  enabled
              when  - is found on the command line. There are situations where you have to set it
              manually, e.g. if you open /dev/stdin (or the equivalent on your system), use stdin
              in  a  playlist  or intend to read from stdin later on via the loadfile or loadlist
              slave commands.

       --input-unix-socket=<filename>
              Enable the IPC support and create the listening socket at the given path.

              See JSON IPC for details.

              Not available on MS Windows.

       --input-appleremote=<yes|no>
              (OS X only) Enable/disable Apple Remote support. Enabled  by  default  (except  for
              libmpv).

       --input-cursor, --no-input-cursor
              Permit mpv to receive pointer events reported by the video output driver. Necessary
              to use the OSC, or to select the buttons in DVD menus.  Support depends on  the  VO
              in use.

       --input-media-keys=<yes|no>
              (OS  X  only)  Enable/disable  media  keys  support. Enabled by default (except for
              libmpv).

       --input-right-alt-gr, --no-input-right-alt-gr
              (Cocoa and Windows only) Use the right  Alt  key  as  Alt  Gr  to  produce  special
              characters.  If  disabled,  count  the right Alt as an Alt modifier key. Enabled by
              default.

       --input-vo-keyboard=<yes|no>
              Disable all keyboard input on for VOs which can't participate  in  proper  keyboard
              input dispatching. May not affect all VOs. Generally useful for embedding only.

              On  X11,  a sub-window with input enabled grabs all keyboard input as long as it is
              1. a child of a focused window, and 2. the mouse is inside of the  sub-window.  The
              can  steal  away  all keyboard input from the application embedding the mpv window,
              and on the other hand, the mpv window will receive no input if the mouse is outside
              of  the  mpv  window,  even  though mpv has focus. Modern toolkits work around this
              weird X11 behavior, but naively embedding foreign windows breaks it.

              The only way to handle this reasonably is using  the  XEmbed  protocol,  which  was
              designed to solve these problems. GTK provides GtkSocket, which supports XEmbed. Qt
              doesn't seem to provide anything working in newer versions.

              If the embedder supports XEmbed, input should work with default settings  and  with
              this  option  disabled.  Note that input-default-bindings is disabled by default in
              libmpv as well - it should be enabled if you want the mpv default key bindings.

              (This option was renamed from --input-x11-keyboard.)

       --input-app-events=<yes|no>
              (OS X only) Enable/disable  application  wide  keyboard  events  so  that  keyboard
              shortcuts  can  be  processed  without  a  window.  Enabled  by default (except for
              libmpv).

   OSD
       --osc, --no-osc
              Whether to load the on-screen-controller (default: yes).

       --no-osd-bar, --osd-bar
              Disable display of the OSD bar. This will make some things (like seeking)  use  OSD
              text messages instead of the bar.

              You  can  configure  this on a per-command basis in input.conf using osd- prefixes,
              see Input command prefixes.  If  you  want  to  disable  the  OSD  completely,  use
              --osd-level=0.

       --osd-duration=<time>
              Set the duration of the OSD messages in ms (default: 1000).

       --osd-font=<name>, --sub-text-font=<name>
              Specify  font  to  use  for  OSD and for subtitles that do not themselves specify a
              particular font. The default is sans-serif.

                 Examples

                 • --osd-font='Bitstream Vera Sans'--osd-font='MS Comic Sans'

              NOTE:
                 The --sub-text-font option (and most other --sub-text- options) are ignored when
                 ASS-subtitles are rendered, unless the --no-sub-ass option is specified.

                 This  used  to  support  fontconfig  patterns. Starting with libass 0.13.0, this
                 stopped working.

       --osd-font-size=<size>, --sub-text-font-size=<size>
              Specify the OSD/sub font size. The unit is the size in scaled pixels  at  a  window
              height  of  720.  The  actual  pixel  size is scaled with the window height: if the
              window height is larger or smaller than 720, the actual size of the text  increases
              or decreases as well.

              Default: 55.

       --osd-msg1=<string>
              Show  this  string  as  message  on OSD with OSD level 1 (visible by default).  The
              message will be visible by default, and as long no other message covers it, and the
              OSD  level  isn't  changed  (see  --osd-level).   Expands  properties; see Property
              Expansion.

       --osd-msg2=<string>
              Similar as --osd-msg1, but for OSD level 2. If this is an empty  string  (default),
              then the playback time is shown.

       --osd-msg3=<string>
              Similar  as  --osd-msg1, but for OSD level 3. If this is an empty string (default),
              then the playback time, duration, and some more information is shown.

              This is also used for the show_progress command (by default mapped  to  P),  or  in
              some non-default cases when seeking.

              --osd-status-msg is a legacy equivalent (but with a minor difference).

       --osd-status-msg=<string>
              Show  a  custom  string  during playback instead of the standard status text.  This
              overrides the status text used for  --osd-level=3,  when  using  the  show_progress
              command  (by  default  mapped  to  P),  or  in some non-default cases when seeking.
              Expands properties. See Property Expansion.

              This option has been replaced with --osd-msg3. The only  difference  is  that  this
              option  implicitly  includes ${osd-sym-cc}. This option is ignored if --osd-msg3 is
              not empty.

       --osd-playing-msg=<string>
              Show a message on OSD when playback starts. The string is expanded for  properties,
              e.g.  --osd-playing-msg='file: ${filename}' will show the message file: followed by
              a space and the currently played filename.

              See Property Expansion.

       --osd-bar-align-x=<-1-1>
              Position of the OSD bar. -1 is far left, 0 is centered, 1 is far right.  Fractional
              values (like 0.5) are allowed.

       --osd-bar-align-y=<-1-1>
              Position  of the OSD bar. -1 is top, 0 is centered, 1 is bottom.  Fractional values
              (like 0.5) are allowed.

       --osd-bar-w=<1-100>
              Width of the OSD bar, in percentage of the screen width (default: 75).  A value  of
              50 means the bar is half the screen wide.

       --osd-bar-h=<0.1-50>
              Height of the OSD bar, in percentage of the screen height (default: 3.125).

       --osd-back-color=<color>, --sub-text-back-color=<color>
              See --osd-color. Color used for OSD/sub text background.

       --osd-blur=<0..20.0>, --sub-text-blur=<0..20.0>
              Gaussian blur factor. 0 means no blur applied (default).

       --osd-bold=<yes|no>, --sub-text-bold=<yes|no>
              Format text on bold.

       --osd-border-color=<color>, --sub-text-border-color=<color>
              See --osd-color. Color used for the OSD/sub font border.

              NOTE:
                 ignored   when  --osd-back-color/--sub-text-back-color  is  specified  (or  more
                 exactly: when that option is not set to completely transparent).

       --osd-border-size=<size>, --sub-text-border-size=<size>
              Size of the OSD/sub font border in scaled pixels (see --osd-font-size for details).
              A value of 0 disables borders.

              Default: 3.

       --osd-color=<color>, --sub-text-color=<color>
              Specify the color used for OSD/unstyled text subtitles.

              The  color  is specified in the form r/g/b, where each color component is specified
              as number in the range 0.0 to 1.0. It's also possible to specify  the  transparency
              by  using  r/g/b/a,  where the alpha value 0 means fully transparent, and 1.0 means
              opaque. If the alpha component is not given, the color is 100% opaque.

              Passing a single number to the option sets the OSD to gray,  and  the  form  gray/a
              lets you specify alpha additionally.

                 Examples

                 • --osd-color=1.0/0.0/0.0 set OSD to opaque red

                 • --osd-color=1.0/0.0/0.0/0.75 set OSD to opaque red with 75% alpha

                 • --osd-color=0.5/0.75 set OSD to 50% gray with 75% alpha

              Alternatively, the color can be specified as a RGB hex triplet in the form #RRGGBB,
              where each 2-digit group expresses a color value in the range 0 (00) to  255  (FF).
              For  example,  #FF0000  is red.  This is similar to web colors. Alpha is given with
              #AARRGGBB.

                 Examples

                 • --osd-color='#FF0000' set OSD to opaque red

                 • --osd-color='#C0808080' set OSD to 50% gray with 75% alpha

       --osd-fractions
              Show OSD times with fractions of seconds (in millisecond precision). Useful to  see
              the exact timestamp of a video frame.

       --osd-level=<0-3>
              Specifies which mode the OSD should start in.

              0      OSD completely disabled (subtitles only)

              1      enabled (shows up only on user interaction)

              2      enabled + current time visible by default

              3      enabled + --osd-status-msg (current time and status by default)

       --osd-margin-x=<size>, --sub-text-margin-x=<size>
              Left and right screen margin for the OSD/subs in scaled pixels (see --osd-font-size
              for details).

              This option specifies the distance of the OSD to the left,  as  well  as  at  which
              distance from the right border long OSD text will be broken.

              Default: 25.

       --osd-margin-y=<size>, --sub-text-margin-y=<size>
              Top and bottom screen margin for the OSD/subs in scaled pixels (see --osd-font-size
              for details).

              This option specifies the vertical margins of  the  OSD.  This  is  also  used  for
              unstyled  text subtitles. If you just want to raise the vertical subtitle position,
              use --sub-pos.

              Default: 22.

       --osd-align-x=<left|center|right>, --sub-text-align-x=...
              Control to which corner of the screen OSD or text subtitles should  be  aligned  to
              (default: center for subs, left for OSD).

              Never  applied  to  ASS subtitles, except in --no-sub-ass mode. Likewise, this does
              not apply to image subtitles.

       --osd-align-y=<top|center|bottom> --sub-text-align-y=...
              Vertical  position  (default:  bottom  for  subs,  top  for  OSD).    Details   see
              --osd-align-x.

       --osd-scale=<factor>
              OSD font size multiplier, multiplied with --osd-font-size value.

       --osd-scale-by-window=<yes|no>
              Whether  to scale the OSD with the window size (default: yes). If this is disabled,
              --osd-font-size and other OSD options that use scaled pixels are always  in  actual
              pixels. The effect is that changing the window size won't change the OSD font size.

       --osd-shadow-color=<color>, --sub-text-shadow-color=<color>
              See --osd-color. Color used for OSD/sub text shadow.

       --osd-shadow-offset=<size>, --sub-text-shadow-offset=<size>
              Displacement  of  the OSD/sub text shadow in scaled pixels (see --osd-font-size for
              details). A value of 0 disables shadows.

              Default: 0.

       --osd-spacing=<size>, --sub-text-spacing=<size>
              Horizontal OSD/sub font spacing in scaled pixels (see --osd-font-size for details).
              This value is added to the normal letter spacing. Negative values are allowed.

              Default: 0.

   Screenshot
       --screenshot-format=<type>
              Set the image file type used for saving screenshots.

              Available choices:

              png    PNG

              ppm    PPM

              pgm    PGM

              pgmyuv PGM with YV12 pixel format

              tga    TARGA

              jpg    JPEG (default)

              jpeg   JPEG (same as jpg, but with .jpeg file ending)

       --screenshot-tag-colorspace=<yes|no>
              Tag screenshots with the appropriate colorspace.

              Note that not all formats are supported.

              Default: no.

       --screenshot-high-bit-depth=<yes|no>
              If  possible,  write  screenshots  with  a  bit  depth  similar to the source video
              (default: yes). This is interesting  in  particular  for  PNG,  as  this  sometimes
              triggers writing 16 bit PNGs with huge file sizes.

       --screenshot-template=<template>
              Specify  the filename template used to save screenshots. The template specifies the
              filename without file extension, and can contain format specifiers, which  will  be
              substituted when taking a screenshot.  By default the template is mpv-shot%n, which
              results in filenames like mpv-shot0012.png for example.

              The template can start with a relative or absolute path,  in  order  to  specify  a
              directory location where screenshots should be saved.

              If  the final screenshot filename points to an already existing file, the file will
              not be overwritten. The screenshot will either not be saved,  or  if  the  template
              contains %n, saved using different, newly generated filename.

              Allowed format specifiers:

              %[#][0X]n
                     A  sequence  number,  padded  with  zeros  to  length  X (default: 04). E.g.
                     passing the format %04n will yield 0012 on the 12th screenshot.  The  number
                     is  incremented  every  time  a  screenshot  is taken or if the file already
                     exists. The length X must be in the range 0-9. With the optional # sign, mpv
                     will  use  the  lowest  available  number.  For  example,  if you take three
                     screenshots--0001, 0002, 0003--and  delete  the  first  two,  the  next  two
                     screenshots will not be 0004 and 0005, but 0001 and 0002 again.

              %f     Filename of the currently played video.

              %F     Same as %f, but strip the file extension, including the dot.

              %x     Directory  path  of  the  currently played video. If the video is not on the
                     filesystem (but e.g. http://), this expand to an empty string.

              %X{fallback}
                     Same as %x, but if the video file is  not  on  the  filesystem,  return  the
                     fallback string inside the {...}.

              %p     Current  playback time, in the same format as used in the OSD. The result is
                     a string of the form "HH:MM:SS". For example, if the video is  at  the  time
                     position 5 minutes and 34 seconds, %p will be replaced with "00:05:34".

              %P     Similar  to  %p, but extended with the playback time in milliseconds.  It is
                     formatted as "HH:MM:SS.mmm", with "mmm" being the millisecond  part  of  the
                     playback time.

                     NOTE:
                        This  is  a  simple  way  for getting unique per-frame timestamps. (Frame
                        numbers would be more intuitive, but are not easily implementable because
                        container formats usually use time stamps for identifying frames.)

              %wX    Specify  the  current  playback  time using the format string X.  %p is like
                     %wH:%wM:%wS, and %P is like %wH:%wM:%wS.%wT.

                     Valid format specifiers:

                            %wH    hour (padded with 0 to two digits)

                            %wh    hour (not padded)

                            %wM    minutes (00-59)

                            %wm    total minutes (includes hours, unlike %wM)

                            %wS    seconds (00-59)

                            %ws    total seconds (includes hours and minutes)

                            %wf    like %ws, but as float

                            %wT    milliseconds (000-999)

              %tX    Specify the  current  local  date/time  using  the  format  X.  This  format
                     specifier  uses  the  UNIX  strftime()  function internally, and inserts the
                     result of passing "%X" to strftime. For example, %tm will insert the  number
                     of  the  current month as number. You have to use multiple %tX specifiers to
                     build a full date/time string.

              %{prop[:fallback text]}
                     Insert the value of the slave property 'prop'. E.g. %{filename} is the  same
                     as  %f. If the property does not exist or is not available, an error text is
                     inserted, unless a fallback is specified.

              %%     Replaced with the % character itself.

       --screenshot-directory=<path>
              Store screenshots in  this  directory.  This  path  is  joined  with  the  filename
              generated  by  --screenshot-template. If the template filename is already absolute,
              the directory is ignored.

              If the directory does not exist, it is created on the first screenshot.  If  it  is
              not a directory, an error is generated when trying to write a screenshot.

              This option is not set by default, and thus will write screenshots to the directory
              from which mpv was started. In pseudo-gui mode (see PSEUDO GUI MODE), this  is  set
              to the desktop.

       --screenshot-jpeg-quality=<0-100>
              Set the JPEG quality level. Higher means better quality. The default is 90.

       --screenshot-jpeg-source-chroma=<yes|no>
              Write  JPEG  files with the same chroma subsampling as the video (default: yes). If
              disabled, the libjpeg default is used.

       --screenshot-png-compression=<0-9>
              Set the PNG compression level. Higher means better compression.  This  will  affect
              the  file  size  of  the  written  screenshot file and the time it takes to write a
              screenshot. Too  high  compression  might  occupy  enough  CPU  time  to  interrupt
              playback. The default is 7.

       --screenshot-png-filter=<0-5>
              Set  the filter applied prior to PNG compression. 0 is none, 1 is "sub", 2 is "up",
              3 is "average", 4 is  "Paeth",  and  5  is  "mixed".  This  affects  the  level  of
              compression  that  can  be  achieved.  For  most  images, "mixed" achieves the best
              compression ratio, hence it is the default.

   Software Scaler
       --sws-scaler=<name>
              Specify the software scaler algorithm to be used with --vf=scale. This also affects
              video  output  drivers  which  lack  hardware  acceleration,  e.g.  x11.  See  also
              --vf=scale.

              To get a list of available scalers, run --sws-scaler=help.

              Default: bicubic.

       --sws-lgb=<0-100>
              Software scaler Gaussian blur filter (luma). See --sws-scaler.

       --sws-cgb=<0-100>
              Software scaler Gaussian blur filter (chroma). See --sws-scaler.

       --sws-ls=<-100-100>
              Software scaler sharpen filter (luma). See --sws-scaler.

       --sws-cs=<-100-100>
              Software scaler sharpen filter (chroma). See --sws-scaler.

       --sws-chs=<h>
              Software scaler chroma horizontal shifting. See --sws-scaler.

       --sws-cvs=<v>
              Software scaler chroma vertical shifting. See --sws-scaler.

   Terminal
       --quiet
              Make console output less verbose; in particular, prevents the status line (i.e. AV:
              3.4  (00:00:03.37) / 5320.6 ...) from being displayed.  Particularly useful on slow
              terminals or broken ones which do not properly handle carriage return (i.e. \r).

              Also see --really-quiet and --msg-level.

       --really-quiet
              Display even less output and status messages than with --quiet.

       --no-terminal, --terminal
              Disable any use of the terminal and stdin/stdout/stderr. This  completely  silences
              any message output.

              Unlike --really-quiet, this disables input and terminal initialization as well.

       --no-msg-color
              Disable colorful console output on terminals.

       --msg-level=<module1=level1,module2=level2,...>
              Control verbosity directly for each module. The all module changes the verbosity of
              all the modules not explicitly specified on the command line.

              Run mpv with --msg-level=all=trace to see all messages mpv outputs. You can use the
              module  names  printed  in the output (prefixed to each line in [...]) to limit the
              output to interesting modules.

              NOTE:
                 Some messages are printed before the command line is parsed  and  are  therefore
                 not  affected  by  --msg-level.  To  control these messages, you have to use the
                 MPV_VERBOSE environment variable; see ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES for details.

              Available levels:

                 no     complete silence

                 fatal  fatal messages only

                 error  error messages

                 warn   warning messages

                 info   informational messages

                 status status messages (default)

                 v      verbose messages

                 debug  debug messages

                 trace  very noisy debug messages

       --term-osd, --no-term-osd, --term-osd=force
              Display OSD messages on the console when no video output is available.  Enabled  by
              default.

              force enables terminal OSD even if a video window is created.

       --term-osd-bar, --no-term-osd-bar
              Enable printing a progress bar under the status line on the terminal.  (Disabled by
              default.)

       --term-osd-bar-chars=<string>
              Customize the --term-osd-bar feature. The  string  is  expected  to  consist  of  5
              characters  (start,  left space, position indicator, right space, end). You can use
              Unicode characters, but note that double- width  characters  will  not  be  treated
              correctly.

              Default: [-+-].

       --term-playing-msg=<string>
              Print  out a string after starting playback. The string is expanded for properties,
              e.g. --term-playing-msg='file: ${filename}' will print the string file: followed by
              a space and the currently played filename.

              See Property Expansion.

       --term-status-msg=<string>
              Print  out  a  custom  string  during playback instead of the standard status line.
              Expands properties. See Property Expansion.

       --msg-module
              Prepend module name to each console message.

       --msg-time
              Prepend timing information to each console message.

   TV
       --tv-...
              These options tune various properties of the TV capture  module.  For  watching  TV
              with  mpv,  use  tv://  or  tv://<channel_number>  or even tv://<channel_name> (see
              option tv-channels for channel_name below)  as  a  media  URL.  You  can  also  use
              tv:///<input_id>  to  start watching a video from a composite or S-Video input (see
              option input for details).

       --tv-device=<value>
              Specify TV device (default: /dev/video0).

       --tv-channel=<value>
              Set tuner to <value> channel.

       --no-tv-audio
              no sound

       --tv-automute=<0-255> (v4l and v4l2 only)
              If signal strength reported by device is less than this value, audio and video will
              be  muted.  In  most  cases  automute=100  will  be enough.  Default is 0 (automute
              disabled).

       --tv-driver=<value>
              See --tv=driver=help for a list of compiled-in TV input drivers.  available: dummy,
              v4l2 (default: autodetect)

       --tv-input=<value>
              Specify input (default: 0 (TV), see console output for available inputs).

       --tv-freq=<value>
              Specify  the  frequency to set the tuner to (e.g. 511.250). Not compatible with the
              channels parameter.

       --tv-outfmt=<value>
              Specify the output format of the tuner with a preset value  supported  by  the  V4L
              driver (YV12, UYVY, YUY2, I420) or an arbitrary format given as hex value.

       --tv-width=<value>
              output window width

       --tv-height=<value>
              output window height

       --tv-fps=<value>
              framerate at which to capture video (frames per second)

       --tv-buffersize=<value>
              maximum size of the capture buffer in megabytes (default: dynamical)

       --tv-norm=<value>
              See  the  console  output  for  a  list of all available norms, also see the normid
              option below.

       --tv-normid=<value> (v4l2 only)
              Sets the TV norm to the given numeric ID. The TV norm depends on the capture  card.
              See the console output for a list of available TV norms.

       --tv-chanlist=<value>
              available:  argentina,  australia,  china-bcast,  europe-east, europe-west, france,
              ireland,  italy,  japan-bcast,  japan-cable,   newzealand,   russia,   southafrica,
              us-bcast, us-cable, us-cable-hrc

       --tv-channels=<chan>-<name>[=<norm>],<chan>-<name>[=<norm>],...
              Set names for channels.

              NOTE:
                 If  <chan>  is an integer greater than 1000, it will be treated as frequency (in
                 kHz) rather than channel name from frequency table.  Use _ for spaces  in  names
                 (or  play  with quoting ;-) ). The channel names will then be written using OSD,
                 and the slave commands tv_step_channel, tv_set_channel and tv_last_channel  will
                 be usable for a remote control. Not compatible with the frequency parameter.

              NOTE:
                 The  channel  number will then be the position in the 'channels' list, beginning
                 with 1.

                 Examples

                        tv://1, tv://TV1, tv_set_channel 1, tv_set_channel TV1

       --tv-[brightness|contrast|hue|saturation]=<-100-100>
              Set the image equalizer on the card.

       --tv-audiorate=<value>
              Set input audio sample rate.

       --tv-forceaudio
              Capture audio even if there are no audio sources reported by v4l.

       --tv-alsa
              Capture from ALSA.

       --tv-amode=<0-3>
              Choose an audio mode:

              0      mono

              1      stereo

              2      language 1

              3      language 2

       --tv-forcechan=<1-2>
              By default, the count of recorded audio channels  is  determined  automatically  by
              querying  the  audio  mode from the TV card. This option allows forcing stereo/mono
              recording regardless of the amode option and the values returned by v4l.  This  can
              be  used for troubleshooting when the TV card is unable to report the current audio
              mode.

       --tv-adevice=<value>
              Set an audio device. <value> should be /dev/xxx for OSS and a hardware ID for ALSA.
              You must replace any ':' by a '.' in the hardware ID for ALSA.

       --tv-audioid=<value>
              Choose an audio output of the capture card, if it has more than one.

       --tv-[volume|bass|treble|balance]=<0-100>
              These  options  set  parameters  of the mixer on the video capture card.  They will
              have no effect, if your card does not have one. For v4l2 50  maps  to  the  default
              value of the control, as reported by the driver.

       --tv-gain=<0-100>
              Set  gain  control  for  video  devices  (usually webcams) to the desired value and
              switch off automatic control. A value of  0  enables  automatic  control.  If  this
              option is omitted, gain control will not be modified.

       --tv-immediatemode=<bool>
              A  value  of  0  means  capture  and  buffer audio and video together. A value of 1
              (default) means to do video capture only and let the audio go  through  a  loopback
              cable from the TV card to the sound card.

       --tv-mjpeg
              Use  hardware  MJPEG compression (if the card supports it). When using this option,
              you do not need to specify the width and height of the output window,  because  mpv
              will determine it automatically from the decimation value (see below).

       --tv-decimation=<1|2|4>
              choose  the  size  of  the  picture  that  will  be  compressed  by  hardware MJPEG
              compression:

              1      full size

                     • 704x576 PAL

                     • 704x480 NTSC

              2      medium size

                     • 352x288 PAL

                     • 352x240 NTSC

              4      small size

                     • 176x144 PAL

                     • 176x120 NTSC

       --tv-quality=<0-100>
              Choose the quality of the JPEG compression (< 60 recommended for full size).

       --tv-scan-autostart
              Begin channel scanning immediately after startup (default: disabled).

       --tv-scan-period=<0.1-2.0>
              Specify delay in seconds before switching to next  channel  (default:  0.5).  Lower
              values will cause faster scanning, but can detect inactive TV channels as active.

       --tv-scan-threshold=<1-100>
              Threshold  value  for  the  signal strength (in percent), as reported by the device
              (default: 50). A signal strength higher than this  value  will  indicate  that  the
              currently scanning channel is active.

   Cache
       --cache=<kBytes|yes|no|auto>
              Set the size of the cache in kilobytes, disable it with no, or automatically enable
              it if needed with auto (default: auto).  With  auto,  the  cache  will  usually  be
              enabled  for  network streams, using the size set by --cache-default. With yes, the
              cache will always be enabled with the  size  set  by  --cache-default  (unless  the
              stream can not be cached, or --cache-default disables caching).

              May  be  useful  when  playing  files  from  slow media, but can also have negative
              effects, especially with file formats that require a lot of seeking, such as MP4.

              Note that half the cache size will be used to allow fast seeking back. This is also
              the  reason  why a full cache is usually not reported as 100% full.  The cache fill
              display does not include the part of the  cache  reserved  for  seeking  back.  The
              actual  maximum  percentage  will  usually  be  the  ratio  between  readahead  and
              backbuffer sizes.

       --cache-default=<kBytes|no>
              Set the size of the cache in kilobytes (default:  75000  KB).  Using  no  will  not
              automatically  enable  the cache e.g. when playing from a network stream. Note that
              using --cache will always override this option.

       --cache-initial=<kBytes>
              Playback will start when the cache has been filled up with this many  kilobytes  of
              data (default: 0).

       --cache-seek-min=<kBytes>
              If  a  seek  is to be made to a position within <kBytes> of the cache size from the
              current position, mpv will wait for the cache to be filled to this position  rather
              than performing a stream seek (default: 500).

              This  matters  for small forward seeks. With slow streams (especially HTTP streams)
              there is a tradeoff between skipping the data between  current  position  and  seek
              destination,  or  performing  an actual seek. Depending on the situation, either of
              these might be slower than the other method.  This option allows control over this.

       --cache-backbuffer=<kBytes>
              Size of the cache back buffer (default: 75000 KB). This will add to the total cache
              size,  and  reserved  the  amount for seeking back. The reserved amount will not be
              used for readahead, and instead preserves already read data to enable fast  seeking
              back.

       --cache-file=<TMP|path>
              Create a cache file on the filesystem.

              There are two ways of using this:

              1. Passing  a  path  (a  filename).  The  file will always be overwritten. When the
                 general cache is enabled, this file cache will be used to store whatever is read
                 from the source stream.

                 This  will  always overwrite the cache file, and you can't use an existing cache
                 file to resume playback of a stream. (Technically, mpv wouldn't even know  which
                 blocks in the file are valid and which not.)

                 The  resulting  file will not necessarily contain all data of the source stream.
                 For example, if you seek, the parts that were skipped over are  never  read  and
                 consequently  are  not  written  to the cache. The skipped over parts are filled
                 with zeros. This means that the cache file doesn't necessarily correspond  to  a
                 full download of the source stream.

                 Both of these issues could be improved if there is any user interest.

                 WARNING:
                    Causes   random   corruption   when   used  with  ordered  chapters  or  with
                    --audio-file.

              2. Passing the string TMP. This will not be interpreted as filename.   Instead,  an
                 invisible  temporary  file  is  created. It depends on your C library where this
                 file is created (usually /tmp/), and whether filename is visible (the  tmpfile()
                 function  is  used). On some systems, automatic deletion of the cache file might
                 not be guaranteed.

                 If you want to use a file cache, this mode is recommended,  because  it  doesn't
                 break ordered chapters or --audio-file. These modes open multiple cache streams,
                 and using the same file for them obviously clashes.

              Also see --cache-file-size.

       --cache-file-size=<kBytes>
              Maximum size of the file created with --cache-file. For read  accesses  above  this
              size, the cache is simply not used.

              Keep in mind that some use-cases, like playing ordered chapters with cache enabled,
              will actually create multiple cache files, each of which will use up to  this  much
              disk space.

              (Default: 1048576, 1 GB.)

       --no-cache
              Turn off input stream caching. See --cache.

       --cache-secs=<seconds>
              How  many seconds of audio/video to prefetch if the cache is active. This overrides
              the --demuxer-readahead-secs option if and only if the cache  is  enabled  and  the
              value is larger. (Default: 10.)

       --cache-pause, --no-cache-pause
              Whether  the player should automatically pause when the cache runs low, and unpause
              once more data is available ("buffering").

   Network
       --user-agent=<string>
              Use <string> as user agent for HTTP streaming.

       --cookies, --no-cookies
              Support cookies when making HTTP requests. Disabled by default.

       --cookies-file=<filename>
              Read HTTP cookies from <filename>. The file is assumed to be in Netscape format.

       --http-header-fields=<field1,field2>
              Set custom HTTP fields when accessing HTTP stream.

                 Example

                     mpv --http-header-fields='Field1: value1','Field2: value2' \
                     http://localhost:1234

                 Will generate HTTP request:

                     GET / HTTP/1.0
                     Host: localhost:1234
                     User-Agent: MPlayer
                     Icy-MetaData: 1
                     Field1: value1
                     Field2: value2
                     Connection: close

       --tls-ca-file=<filename>
              Certificate authority database file for use with TLS. (Silently  fails  with  older
              FFmpeg or Libav versions.)

       --tls-verify
              Verify  peer  certificates when using TLS (e.g. with https://...).  (Silently fails
              with older FFmpeg or Libav versions.)

       --tls-cert-file
              A file containing a certificate to use in the handshake with the peer.

       --tls-key-file
              A file containing the private key for the certificate.

       --referrer=<string>
              Specify a referrer path or URL for HTTP requests.

       --network-timeout=<seconds>
              Specify the network timeout in seconds. This affects at  least  HTTP.  The  special
              value  0 (default) uses the FFmpeg/Libav defaults. If a protocol is used which does
              not support timeouts, this option is silently ignored.

       --rtsp-transport=<lavf|udp|tcp|http>
              Select RTSP transport method (default: tcp). This selects  the  underlying  network
              transport  when  playing  rtsp://...  URLs.  The  value lavf leaves the decision to
              libavformat.

       --hls-bitrate=<no|min|max|<rate>>
              If HLS streams are played, this  option  controls  what  streams  are  selected  by
              default. The option allows the following parameters:

              no     Don't  do  anything  special.  Typically,  this  will  simply pick the first
                     audio/video streams it can find.

              min    Pick the streams with the lowest bitrate.

              max    Same, but highest bitrate. (Default.)

              Additionally, if the option is a number, the stream with the highest rate equal  or
              below the option value is selected.

              The  bitrate  as used is sent by the server, and there's no guarantee it's actually
              meaningful.

   DVB
       --dvbin-card=<1-4>
              Specifies using card number 1-4 (default: 1).

       --dvbin-file=<filename>
              Instructs mpv to read the channels list from <filename>. The default is in the  mpv
              configuration    directory    (usually    ~/.config/mpv)    with    the    filename
              channels.conf.{sat,ter,cbl,atsc} (based on your card type) or  channels.conf  as  a
              last  resort.  For DVB-S/2 cards, a VDR 1.7.x format channel list is recommended as
              it allows tuning to DVB-S2 channels, enabling subtitles and decoding the PMT (which
              largely  improves  the  demuxing).   Classic mplayer format channel lists are still
              supported (without these improvements), and for other card types, only limited  VDR
              format  channel  list  support is implemented (patches welcome).  For channels with
              dynamic PID switching or incomplete channels.conf, --dvbin-full-transponder or  the
              magic PID 8192 are recommended.

       --dvbin-timeout=<1-30>
              Maximum  number of seconds to wait when trying to tune a frequency before giving up
              (default: 30).

       --dvbin-full-transponder=<yes|no>
              Apply no filters on program PIDs, only tune to frequency and pass full  transponder
              to  demuxer. This is useful to record multiple programs on a single transponder, or
              to work around issues in the channels.conf.  It is also recommended to use this for
              channels which switch PIDs on-the-fly, e.g. for regional news.

              Default: no

   Miscellaneous
       --display-tags=tag1,tags2,...
              Set the list of tags that should be displayed on the terminal. Tags that are in the
              list, but are not present in the played file, will not be shown.  If a  value  ends
              with  *, all tags are matched by prefix (though there is no general globbing). Just
              passing * essentially filtering.

              The default includes a common list of tags, call mpv with --list-options to see it.

       --mc=<seconds/frame>
              Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds)

       --autosync=<factor>
              Gradually adjusts the A/V sync  based  on  audio  delay  measurements.   Specifying
              --autosync=0,  the  default,  will cause frame timing to be based entirely on audio
              delay measurements. Specifying --autosync=1 will  do  the  same,  but  will  subtly
              change  the  A/V  correction  algorithm. An uneven video framerate in a video which
              plays fine with --no-audio can often be helped by setting this to an integer  value
              greater  than 1. The higher the value, the closer the timing will be to --no-audio.
              Try --autosync=30 to smooth out problems with sound drivers which do not  implement
              a  perfect  audio  delay  measurement.  With  this value, if large A/V sync offsets
              occur, they will only take about 1 or 2  seconds  to  settle  out.  This  delay  in
              reaction  time to sudden A/V offsets should be the only side-effect of turning this
              option on, for all sound drivers.

       --video-sync=<audio|...>
              How the player synchronizes audio and video.

              The  modes  starting  with  display-  try  to  output   video   frames   completely
              synchronously to the display, using the detected display vertical refresh rate as a
              hint how fast frames will be displayed on average. These modes change  video  speed
              slightly  to  match the display. See --video-sync-...  options for fine tuning. The
              robustness of this mode is further reduced by making a some idealized  assumptions,
              which  may  not  always  apply  in  reality.  Behavior can depend on the VO and the
              system's video and  audio  drivers.   Media  files  must  use  constant  framerate.
              Section-wise VFR might work as well with some container formats (but not e.g. mkv).
              If the sync code detects severe A/V desync, or the framerate  cannot  be  detected,
              the player automatically reverts to audio mode for some time or permanently.

              The  modes  with  desync in their names do not attempt to keep audio/video in sync.
              They will slowly (or quickly) desync, until e.g. the next seek happens. These modes
              are meant for testing, not serious use.

              audio  Time video frames to audio. This is the most robust mode, because the player
                     doesn't  have  to  assume  anything  about  how  the  display  behaves.  The
                     disadvantage  is  that  it can lead to occasional frame drops or repeats. If
                     audio is disabled, this uses the system clock. This is the default mode.

              display-resample
                     Resample audio to match the video. This mode will also try to  adjust  audio
                     speed  to compensate for other drift.  (This means it will play the audio at
                     a different speed every once in a while to reduce the A/V difference.)

              display-resample-vdrop
                     Resample audio to match the video.  Drop  video  frames  to  compensate  for
                     drift.

              display-resample-desync
                     Like the previous mode, but no A/V compensation.

              display-vdrop
                     Drop  or  repeat  video  frames  to compensate desyncing video. (Although it
                     should  have  the  same  effects  as  audio,  the  implementation  is   very
                     different.)

              display-adrop
                     Drop   or   repeat   audio   data   to   compensate   desyncing  video.  See
                     --video-sync-adrop-size. This mode will cause severe audio artifacts if  the
                     real monitor refresh rate is too different from the reported or forced rate.

              display-desync
                     Sync video to display, and let audio play on its own.

              desync Sync video according to system clock, and let audio play on its own.

       --video-sync-max-video-change=<value>
              Maximum   speed   difference   in   percent   that   is   applied   to  video  with
              --video-sync=display-... (default: 1). Display sync mode will be  disabled  if  the
              monitor  and  video  refresh  way  do  not  match  within the given range. It tries
              multiples as well: playing 30 fps video on a 60  Hz  screen  will  duplicate  every
              second  frame.  Playing  24  fps  video  on  a  60  Hz  screen will play video in a
              2-3-2-3-... pattern.

              The default settings are not loose enough to speed up 23.976 fps video to  25  fps.
              We  consider  the  pitch  change too extreme to allow this behavior by default. Set
              this option to a value of 5 to enable it.

              Note that in the --video-sync=display-resample mode, audio speed will  additionally
              be    changed    by   a   small   amount   if   necessary   for   A/V   sync.   See
              --video-sync-max-audio-change.

       --video-sync-max-audio-change=<value>
              Maximum additional speed difference in  percent  that  is  applied  to  audio  with
              --video-sync=display-...  (default:  0.125). Normally, the player play the audio at
              the speed of the video. But if the difference between audio and video  position  is
              too  high, e.g. due to drift or other timing errors, it will attempt to speed up or
              slow down audio by this additional factor. Too low values could lead to video frame
              dropping  or  repeating  if  the  A/V desync cannot be compensated, too high values
              could lead to chaotic frame dropping due to the audio "overshooting"  and  skipping
              multiple video frames before the sync logic can react.

       --video-sync-adrop-size=<value
              For  the  --video-sync=display-adrop mode. This mode duplicates/drops audio data to
              keep audio in sync with video. To avoid audio  artifacts  on  jitter  (which  would
              add/remove  samples  all  the time), this is done in relatively large, fixed units,
              controlled by this option. The unit is seconds.

       --mf-fps=<value>
              Framerate used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files with  mf://  (default:
              1).

       --mf-type=<value>
              Input  file  type  for  mf:// (available: jpeg, png, tga, sgi). By default, this is
              guessed from the file extension.

       --stream-capture=<filename>
              Allows capturing the primary stream (not additional audio tracks or other  kind  of
              streams) into the given file. Capturing can also be started and stopped by changing
              the filename with the stream-capture  slave  property.   Generally  this  will  not
              produce usable results for anything else than MPEG or raw streams, unless capturing
              includes the file  headers  and  is  not  interrupted.  Note  that,  due  to  cache
              latencies,  captured  data  may begin and end somewhat delayed compared to what you
              see displayed.

              The  destination  file  is  always  appended.  (Before  mpv  0.8.0,  the  file  was
              overwritten.)

       --stream-dump=<filename>
              Same  as  --stream-capture,  but do not start playback. Instead, the entire file is
              dumped.

       --stream-lavf-o=opt1=value1,opt2=value2,...
              Set AVOptions on streams opened with libavformat. Unknown or misspelled options are
              silently  ignored. (They are mentioned in the terminal output in verbose mode, i.e.
              --v. In general we can't print errors, because other  options  such  as  e.g.  user
              agent are not available with all protocols, and printing errors for unknown options
              would end up being too noisy.)

       --vo-mmcss-profile=<name>
              (Windows only.)  Set the MMCSS profile for  the  video  renderer  thread  (default:
              Playback).

       --priority=<prio>
              (Windows  only.)   Set  process  priority  for  mpv  according  to  the  predefined
              priorities available under Windows.

              Possible values of <prio>: idle|belownormal|normal|abovenormal|high|realtime

              WARNING:
                 Using realtime priority can cause system lockup.

       --force-media-title=<string>
              Force the contents of the media-title property to this value.  Useful  for  scripts
              which want to set a title, without overriding the user's setting in --title.

AUDIO OUTPUT DRIVERS

       Audio output drivers are interfaces to different audio output facilities. The syntax is:

       --ao=<driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
              Specify a priority list of audio output drivers to be used.

       If  the  list has a trailing ',', mpv will fall back on drivers not contained in the list.
       Suboptions are optional and can mostly be omitted.

       You can also set defaults for each driver. The defaults  are  applied  before  the  normal
       driver parameters.

       --ao-defaults=<driver1[:parameter1:parameter2:...],driver2,...>
              Set defaults for each driver.

       NOTE:
          See  --ao=help  for a list of compiled-in audio output drivers. The driver --ao=alsa is
          preferred. --ao=pulse is preferred on systems where PulseAudio  is  used.  On  Windows,
          --ao=wasapi  is  preferred,  though  it  might  cause  trouble sometimes, in which case
          --ao=dsound should be used. On BSD systems,  --ao=oss  or  --ao=sndio`  may  work  (the
          latter being experimental). On OS X systems, use --ao=coreaudio.

          Examples

          • --ao=alsa,oss, Try the ALSA driver, then the OSS driver, then others.

          • --ao=alsa:resample=yes:device=[plughw:0,3]   Lets   ALSA   resample   and   sets  the
            device-name as first card, fourth device.

       Available audio output drivers are:

       alsa (Linux only)
              ALSA audio output driver

              device=<device>
                     Sets the device name. For ac3 output via S/PDIF, use an "iec958" or  "spdif"
                     device, unless you really know how to set it correctly.

              resample=yes
                     Enable  ALSA  resampling  plugin. (This is disabled by default, because some
                     drivers report incorrect audio delay in some cases.)

              mixer-device=<device>
                     Set the mixer device used with --no-softvol (default: default).

              mixer-name=<name>
                     Set the name of the mixer element (default: Master). This is for example PCM
                     or Master.

              mixer-index=<number>
                     Set  the  index  of  the  mixer channel (default: 0). Consider the output of
                     "amixer scontrols", then the index is the number that follows  the  name  of
                     the element.

              non-interleaved
                     Allow  output  of  non-interleaved  formats  (if the audio decoder uses this
                     format). Currently disabled by default, because some  popular  ALSA  plugins
                     are utterly broken with non-interleaved formats.

              ignore-chmap
                     Don't  read  or  set  the  channel map of the ALSA device - only request the
                     required number of channels, and then pass  the  audio  as-is  to  it.  This
                     option  most  likely  should not be used. It can be useful for debugging, or
                     for static setups with a specially engineered ALSA  configuration  (in  this
                     case  you  should  always force the same layout with --audio-channels, or it
                     will work only for files which use the layout implicit to your ALSA device).

              NOTE:
                 MPlayer and mplayer2 required you to replace any ',' with '.' and any  ':'  with
                 '='  in  the ALSA device name. mpv does not do this anymore.  Instead, quote the
                 device name:
                     --ao=alsa:device=[plug:surround50]

                 Note that the [ and ] simply quote the device name. With some shells (like zsh),
                 you  have  to quote the option string to prevent the shell from interpreting the
                 brackets instead of passing them to mpv.

                 Actually, you should use the  --audio-device  option,  instead  of  setting  the
                 device directly.

              WARNING:
                 Handling  of  multichannel/surround audio changed in mpv 0.8.0 from the behavior
                 in MPlayer/mplayer2 and older versions of mpv.

                 The old behavior is that the player always downmixed to stereo by  default.  The
                 --audio-channels  (or  --channels  before  that)  option  had  to  be set to get
                 multichannel audio. Then playing stereo would  use  the  default  device  (which
                 typically  allows  multiple  programs  to play audio at the same time via dmix),
                 while playing anything with  more  channels  would  open  one  of  the  hardware
                 devices,  e.g.  via  the  surround51  alias  (typically  with exclusive access).
                 Whether the player would use exclusive access or not would depend  on  the  file
                 being played.

                 The  new  behavior  since  mpv  0.8.0  always  enables  multichannel audio, i.e.
                 --audio-channels=auto is the default. However, since ALSA provides no  good  way
                 to  play  multichannel  audio  in  a  non-exclusive  way (without blocking other
                 applications from using audio), the player is restricted to the capabilities  of
                 the  default device by default, which means it supports only stereo and mono (at
                 least with current typical ALSA configurations). But if  a  hardware  device  is
                 selected, then multichannel audio will typically work.

                 The short story is: if you want multichannel audio with ALSA, use --audio-device
                 to select the device (use --audio-device=help to get a list of all  devices  and
                 their mpv name).

                 You  can also try using the upmix plugin.  This setup enables multichannel audio
                 on the default device with automatic upmixing with  shared  access,  so  playing
                 stereo and multichannel audio at the same time will work as expected.

       oss    OSS audio output driver

              <dsp-device>
                     Sets the audio output device (default: /dev/dsp).

              <mixer-device>
                     Sets the audio mixer device (default: /dev/mixer).

              <mixer-channel>
                     Sets the audio mixer channel (default: pcm). Other valid values include vol,
                     pcm, line. For a complete list of options  look  for  SOUND_DEVICE_NAMES  in
                     /usr/include/linux/soundcard.h.

       jack   JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) audio output driver

              port=<name>
                     Connects to the ports with the given name (default: physical ports).

              name=<client>
                     Client  name  that  is  passed to JACK (default: mpv). Useful if you want to
                     have certain connections established automatically.

              (no-)autostart
                     Automatically start jackd if necessary (default: disabled). Note  that  this
                     tends to be unreliable and will flood stdout with server messages.

              (no-)connect
                     Automatically  create  connections to output ports (default: enabled).  When
                     enabled, the maximum number of output channels will be limited to the number
                     of available output ports.

              std-channel-layout=waveext|any
                     Select  the  standard  channel layout (default: waveext). JACK itself has no
                     notion of channel layouts (i.e. assigning which speaker a given  channel  is
                     supposed  to  map  to) - it just takes whatever the application outputs, and
                     reroutes it to whatever the user  defines.  This  means  the  user  and  the
                     application  are  in charge of dealing with the channel layout. waveext uses
                     WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE  order,  which,  even  though  it  was   defined   by
                     Microsoft, is the standard on many systems.  The value any makes JACK accept
                     whatever comes from the audio filter chain, regardless of channel layout and
                     without  reordering.  This  mode is probably not very useful, other than for
                     debugging or when used with fixed setups.

       coreaudio (Mac OS X only)
              Native Mac OS X audio output  driver  using  AudioUnits  and  the  CoreAudio  sound
              server.

              Automatically redirects to coreaudio_exclusive when playing compressed formats.

              change-physical-format=<yes|no>
                     Change  the  physical  format  to  one similar to the requested audio format
                     (default: no). This has the advantage that multichannel  audio  output  will
                     actually work. The disadvantage is that it will change the system-wide audio
                     settings. This is equivalent to changing the Format  setting  in  the  Audio
                     Devices  dialog  in  the  Audio  MIDI Setup utility. Note that this does not
                     effect the selected speaker setup.

              exclusive
                     Use exclusive mode access. This merely redirects to coreaudio_exclusive, but
                     should be preferred over using that AO directly.

       coreaudio_exclusive (Mac OS X only)
              Native  Mac  OS X audio output driver using direct device access and exclusive mode
              (bypasses the sound server).

       openal Experimental OpenAL audio output driver

              NOTE:
                 This driver is not very useful. Playing multi-channel audio with it is slow.

       pulse  PulseAudio audio output driver

              [<host>][:<output sink>]
                     Specify the host and optionally output sink to use. An empty  <host>  string
                     uses  a local connection, "localhost" uses network transfer (most likely not
                     what you want).

              buffer=<1-2000|native>
                     Set the audio buffer size in milliseconds. A higher value buffers more data,
                     and  has  a lower probability of buffer underruns. A smaller value makes the
                     audio stream react faster, e.g. to playback speed changes. Default: 250.

              latency-hacks=<yes|no>
                     Enable hacks to workaround PulseAudio timing bugs (default: no). If enabled,
                     mpv  will do elaborate latency calculations on its own. If disabled, it will
                     use PulseAudio automatically  updated  timing  information.  Disabling  this
                     might  help  with  e.g.  networked  audio or some plugins, while enabling it
                     might help in some unknown situations (it used to be required  to  get  good
                     behavior on old PulseAudio versions).

                     If  you  have  stuttering video when using pulse, try to enable this option.
                     (Or alternatively, try to update PulseAudio.)

       dsound (Windows only)
              DirectX DirectSound audio output driver

              NOTE:
                 This driver is for compatibility with old systems.

              device=<devicenum>
                     Sets the device number to use. Playing a file with -v will show  a  list  of
                     available devices.

              buffersize=<ms>
                     DirectSound buffer size in milliseconds (default: 200).

       sdl    SDL 1.2+ audio output driver. Should work on any platform supported by SDL 1.2, but
              may require the SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment variable to be  set  appropriately  for
              your system.

              NOTE:
                 This  driver  is  for compatibility with extremely foreign environments, such as
                 systems where none of the other drivers are available.

              buflen=<length>
                     Sets the audio buffer length in seconds. Is used only as a hint by the sound
                     system.  Playing  a  file with -v will show the requested and obtained exact
                     buffer size. A value of 0 selects the sound system default.

              bufcnt=<count>
                     Sets the number of extra audio buffers in mpv. Usually needs not be changed.

       null   Produces no audio output but maintains video playback speed. Use  --ao=null:untimed
              for benchmarking.

              untimed
                     Do  not simulate timing of a perfect audio device. This means audio decoding
                     will go as fast as possible, instead of timing it to the system clock.

              buffer Simulated buffer length in seconds.

              outburst
                     Simulated chunk size in samples.

              speed  Simulated audio playback speed as a multiplier. Usually, a real audio device
                     will  not  go  exactly  as  fast as the system clock. It will deviate just a
                     little, and this option helps simulating this.

              latency
                     Simulated device latency. This is additional to EOF.

              broken-eof
                     Simulate broken audio drivers, which always add the fixed device latency  to
                     the reported audio playback position.

              broken-delay
                     Simulate broken audio drivers, which don't report latency correctly.

              channel-layouts
                     If  not  empty, this is a , separated list of channel layouts the AO allows.
                     This can be used to test channel layout selection.

       pcm    Raw PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

              (no-)waveheader
                     Include or do not include the WAVE  header  (default:  included).  When  not
                     included, raw PCM will be generated.

              file=<filename>
                     Write  the  sound  to  <filename>  instead  of the default audiodump.wav. If
                     no-waveheader is specified, the default is audiodump.pcm.

              (no-)append
                     Append to the file, instead of overwriting it.  Always  use  this  with  the
                     no-waveheader  option - with waveheader it's broken, because it will write a
                     WAVE header every time the file is opened.

       rsound Audio output to an RSound daemon

              NOTE:
                 Completely useless, unless you intend to run RSound. Not  to  be  confused  with
                 RoarAudio, which is something completely different.

              host=<name/path>
                     Set the address of the server (default: localhost).  Can be either a network
                     hostname for TCP connections or a Unix domain socket path starting with '/'.

              port=<number>
                     Set the TCP port used for connecting to the server  (default:  12345).   Not
                     used if connecting to a Unix domain socket.

       sndio  Audio output to the OpenBSD sndio sound system

              NOTE:
                 Experimental. There are known bugs and issues.

              (Note: only supports mono, stereo, 4.0, 5.1 and 7.1 channel layouts.)

              device=<device>
                     sndio device to use (default: $AUDIODEVICE, resp. snd0).

       wasapi Audio output to the Windows Audio Session API.

              exclusive
                     Requests  exclusive,  direct  hardware  access. By definition prevents sound
                     playback of any other program until mpv exits.

              device=<id>
                     Uses the requested endpoint instead of the system's default audio  endpoint.
                     Both  an  ordinal number (0,1,2,...) and the GUID String are valid; the GUID
                     string is guaranteed to not change unless the driver is uninstalled.

                     Also supports searching active devices by human readable name. If more  than
                     one device matches the name, refuses loading it.

                     This   option   is   mostly   deprecated  in  favour  of  the  more  general
                     --audio-device option. That said, --audio-device=help will give  a  list  of
                     valid  device GUIDs (prefixed with wasapi/), as well as their human readable
                     names, which should work here.

VIDEO OUTPUT DRIVERS

       Video output drivers are interfaces to different video output facilities. The syntax is:

       --vo=<driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
              Specify a priority list of video output drivers to be used.

       If the list has a trailing ',', mpv will fall back on drivers not contained in  the  list.
       Suboptions are optional and can mostly be omitted.

       You  can  also  set  defaults  for each driver. The defaults are applied before the normal
       driver parameters.

       --vo-defaults=<driver1[:parameter1:parameter2:...],driver2,...>
              Set defaults for each driver.

       NOTE:
          See --vo=help for a list of compiled-in video output drivers.

          The  recommended  output  driver  is  --vo=opengl-hq.  All  other   drivers   are   for
          compatibility or special purposes. By default, --vo=opengl is used, but if that appears
          not to work, it fallback to other drivers (in the same order as listed by --vo=help).

       Available video output drivers are:

       xv (X11 only)
              Uses the XVideo extension to enable hardware-accelerated display. This is the  most
              compatible  VO  on  X, but may be low-quality, and has issues with OSD and subtitle
              display.

              NOTE:
                 This driver is for compatibility with old systems.

              adaptor=<number>
                     Select a specific XVideo adapter (check xvinfo results).

              port=<number>
                     Select a specific XVideo port.

              ck=<cur|use|set>
                     Select the source from which the color key is taken (default: cur).

                     cur    The default takes the color key currently set in Xv.

                     use    Use but do not set the color key from mpv (use the --colorkey  option
                            to change it).

                     set    Same as use but also sets the supplied color key.

              ck-method=<man|bg|auto>
                     Sets the color key drawing method (default: man).

                     man    Draw the color key manually (reduces flicker in some cases).

                     bg     Set the color key as window background.

                     auto   Let Xv draw the color key.

              colorkey=<number>
                     Changes  the color key to an RGB value of your choice. 0x000000 is black and
                     0xffffff is white.

              no-colorkey
                     Disables color-keying.

              buffers=<number>
                     Number of image buffers to use for the  internal  ringbuffer  (default:  2).
                     Increasing  this  will use more memory, but might help with the X server not
                     responding quickly enough if video FPS  is  close  to  or  higher  than  the
                     display refresh rate.

       x11 (X11 only)
              Shared memory video output driver without hardware acceleration that works whenever
              X11 is present.

              NOTE:
                 This is a fallback only, and should not be normally used.

       vdpau (X11 only)
              Uses the VDPAU interface to display and optionally  also  decode  video.   Hardware
              decoding is used with --hwdec=vdpau.

              NOTE:
                 Earlier  versions  of  mpv  (and MPlayer, mplayer2) provided sub-options to tune
                 vdpau post-processing,  like  deint,  sharpen,  denoise,  chroma-deint,  pullup,
                 hqscaling.  These  sub-options  are  deprecated,  and you should use the vdpaupp
                 video filter instead.

              sharpen=<-1-1>
                     (Deprecated. See note about vdpaupp.)

                     For positive values, apply a sharpening algorithm to the video, for negative
                     values a blurring algorithm (default: 0).

              denoise=<0-1>
                     (Deprecated. See note about vdpaupp.)

                     Apply  a  noise  reduction  algorithm  to  the  video  (default: 0; no noise
                     reduction).

              deint=<-4-4>
                     (Deprecated. See note about vdpaupp.)

                     Select deinterlacing mode (default:  0).  In  older  versions  (as  well  as
                     MPlayer/mplayer2)  you  could use this option to enable deinterlacing.  This
                     doesn't work anymore, and deinterlacing is enabled with either the d key (by
                     default  mapped  to  the  command  cycle  deinterlace), or the --deinterlace
                     option. Also, to select the default deint mode,  you  should  use  something
                     like --vf-defaults=vdpaupp:deint-mode=temporal instead of this sub-option.

                     0      Pick the vdpaupp video filter default, which corresponds to 3.

                     1      Show only first field.

                     2      Bob deinterlacing.

                     3      Motion-adaptive  temporal  deinterlacing. May lead to A/V desync with
                            slow video hardware and/or high resolution.

                     4      Motion-adaptive  temporal  deinterlacing  with  edge-guided   spatial
                            interpolation. Needs fast video hardware.

              chroma-deint
                     (Deprecated. See note about vdpaupp.)

                     Makes temporal deinterlacers operate both on luma and chroma (default).  Use
                     no-chroma-deint to solely use luma  and  speed  up  advanced  deinterlacing.
                     Useful with slow video memory.

              pullup (Deprecated. See note about vdpaupp.)

                     Try to apply inverse telecine, needs motion adaptive temporal deinterlacing.

              hqscaling=<0-9>
                     (Deprecated. See note about vdpaupp.)

                     0      Use default VDPAU scaling (default).

                     1-9    Apply high quality VDPAU scaling (needs capable hardware).

              fps=<number>
                     Override  autodetected  display  refresh rate value (the value is needed for
                     framedrop to allow video playback rates higher than  display  refresh  rate,
                     and   for  vsync-aware  frame  timing  adjustments).  Default  0  means  use
                     autodetected value. A positive value is interpreted as a refresh rate in  Hz
                     and  overrides  the autodetected value. A negative value disables all timing
                     adjustment and framedrop logic.

              composite-detect
                     NVIDIA's current VDPAU implementation behaves somewhat differently  under  a
                     compositing   window  manager  and  does  not  give  accurate  frame  timing
                     information. With this option enabled, the player tries to detect whether  a
                     compositing  window  manager  is  active.  If  one  is  detected, the player
                     disables timing adjustments as if the user had  specified  fps=-1  (as  they
                     would  be  based  on  incorrect  input).  This means timing is somewhat less
                     accurate than without compositing, but with the composited mode behavior  of
                     the  NVIDIA  driver,  there is no hard playback speed limit even without the
                     disabled logic. Enabled by default, use no-composite-detect to disable.

              queuetime_windowed=<number> and queuetime_fs=<number>
                     Use VDPAU's presentation queue functionality to  queue  future  video  frame
                     changes  at most this many milliseconds in advance (default: 50).  See below
                     for additional information.

              output_surfaces=<2-15>
                     Allocate this many output surfaces to display video frames (default: 3). See
                     below for additional information.

              colorkey=<#RRGGBB|#AARRGGBB>
                     Set  the VDPAU presentation queue background color, which in practice is the
                     colorkey used if VDPAU operates in  overlay  mode  (default:  #020507,  some
                     shade  of  black).  If  the  alpha component of this value is 0, the default
                     VDPAU colorkey will be used instead (which is usually green).

              force-yuv
                     Never accept RGBA input. This means mpv will insert a filter to convert to a
                     YUV  format before the VO. Sometimes useful to force availability of certain
                     YUV-only features, like video equalizer or deinterlacing.

              Using the VDPAU frame queuing functionality controlled  by  the  queuetime  options
              makes  mpv's  frame flip timing less sensitive to system CPU load and allows mpv to
              start decoding the next frame(s) slightly earlier, which can reduce  jitter  caused
              by  individual slow-to-decode frames. However, the NVIDIA graphics drivers can make
              other window behavior such as window moves choppy if VDPAU is using the blit  queue
              (mainly  happens  if  you have the composite extension enabled) and this feature is
              active. If this happens on your system and it bothers you  then  you  can  set  the
              queuetime  value  to 0 to disable this feature. The settings to use in windowed and
              fullscreen mode are separate because there should be no reason to disable this  for
              fullscreen mode (as the driver issue should not affect the video itself).

              You  can  queue  more  frames  ahead  by  increasing  the  queuetime values and the
              output_surfaces count (to ensure enough surfaces to buffer video for a certain time
              ahead  you need at least as many surfaces as the video has frames during that time,
              plus two). This could help make video smoother in some cases.  The  main  downsides
              are  increased video RAM requirements for the surfaces and laggier display response
              to user commands (display changes only  become  visible  some  time  after  they're
              queued).  The  graphics driver implementation may also have limits on the length of
              maximum queuing time or number of queued surfaces that work well or at all.

       direct3d_shaders (Windows only)
              Video output driver that uses the Direct3D interface.

              NOTE:
                 This driver is for compatibility with systems that don't provide  proper  OpenGL
                 drivers.

              prefer-stretchrect
                     Use IDirect3DDevice9::StretchRect over other methods if possible.

              disable-stretchrect
                     Never render the video using IDirect3DDevice9::StretchRect.

              disable-textures
                     Never  render the video using D3D texture rendering. Rendering with textures
                     + shader will still be allowed. Add disable-shaders  to  completely  disable
                     video rendering with textures.

              disable-shaders
                     Never use shaders when rendering video.

              only-8bit
                     Never render YUV video with more than 8 bits per component.  Using this flag
                     will force software conversion to 8-bit.

              disable-texture-align
                     Normally texture sizes are always aligned to 16. With this  option  enabled,
                     the  video  texture  will  always  have  exactly  the same size as the video
                     itself.

              Debug options. These might be incorrect, might be  removed  in  the  future,  might
              crash, might cause slow downs, etc. Contact the developers if you actually need any
              of these for performance or proper operation.

              force-power-of-2
                     Always  force  textures  to  power  of  2,  even  if  the   device   reports
                     non-power-of-2 texture sizes as supported.

              texture-memory=<mode>
                     Only affects operation with shaders/texturing enabled, and (E)OSD.  Possible
                     values:

                     default (default)
                            Use D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, with a D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM texture for locking. If
                            the driver supports D3DDEVCAPS_TEXTURESYSTEMMEMORY, D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM
                            is used directly.

                     default-pool
                            Use D3DPOOL_DEFAULT. (Like default, but never use a shadow-texture.)

                     default-pool-shadow
                            Use D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, with a D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM  texture  for  locking.
                            (Like default, but always force the shadow-texture.)

                     managed
                            Use D3DPOOL_MANAGED.

                     scratch
                            Use D3DPOOL_SCRATCH, with a D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM texture for locking.

              swap-discard
                     Use  D3DSWAPEFFECT_DISCARD,  which might be faster.  Might be slower too, as
                     it must(?) clear every frame.

              exact-backbuffer
                     Always resize the backbuffer to window size.

       direct3d (Windows only)
              Same as direct3d_shaders, but with the options disable-textures and disable-shaders
              forced.

              NOTE:
                 This driver is for compatibility with old systems.

       opengl OpenGL  video  output  driver.  It supports extended scaling methods, dithering and
              color management.

              By default, it tries to use fast and fail-safe settings. Use the alias opengl-hq to
              use this driver with defaults set to high quality rendering.

              Requires at least OpenGL 2.1.

              Some  features are available with OpenGL 3 capable graphics drivers only (or if the
              necessary extensions are available).

              OpenGL ES 2.0 and 3.0 are supported as well.

              Hardware decoding over OpenGL-interop is supported to some  degree.  Note  that  in
              this  mode,  some  corner  case  might  not  be gracefully handled, and color space
              conversion and chroma upsampling is generally in the hand of the  hardware  decoder
              APIs.

              opengl  makes  use  of FBOs by default. Sometimes you can achieve better quality or
              performance by changing the fbo-format suboption to rgb16f, rgb32f  or  rgb.  Known
              problems  include Mesa/Intel not accepting rgb16, Mesa sometimes not being compiled
              with float texture support, and some OS X setups being very  slow  with  rgb16  but
              fast  with rgb32f. If you have problems, you can also try passing the dumb-mode=yes
              sub-option.

              dumb-mode=<yes|no>
                     This mode is extremely restricted, and will  disable  most  extended  OpenGL
                     features. This includes high quality scalers and custom shaders!

                     It  is  intended  for  hardware  that does not support FBOs (including GLES,
                     which supports it insufficiently), or to get some more  performance  out  of
                     bad or old hardware.

                     This  mode  is  forced  automatically  if  needed, and this option is mostly
                     useful for debugging.  It's  also  enabled  automatically  if  nothing  uses
                     features which require FBOs.

                     This option might be silently removed in the future.

              scale=<filter>

                 bilinear
                        Bilinear hardware texture filtering (fastest, very low quality).  This is
                        the default for compatibility reasons.

                 spline36
                        Mid quality and speed. This is the default when using opengl-hq.

                 lanczos
                        Lanczos scaling. Provides mid quality and  speed.  Generally  worse  than
                        spline36,  but  it  results in a slightly sharper image which is good for
                        some  content  types.  The  number  of  taps  can  be   controlled   with
                        scale-radius, but is best left unchanged.

                        This  filter  corresponds to the old lanczos3 alias if the default radius
                        is used, while lanczos2 corresponds to a radius of 2.

                        (This filter is an alias for sinc-windowed sinc)

                 ewa_lanczos
                        Elliptic  weighted  average  Lanczos  scaling.  Also   known   as   Jinc.
                        Relatively slow, but very good quality. The radius can be controlled with
                        scale-radius. Increasing the radius makes the  filter  sharper  but  adds
                        more ringing.

                        (This filter is an alias for jinc-windowed jinc)

                 ewa_lanczossharp
                        A  slightly  sharpened  version  of  ewa_lanczos, preconfigured to use an
                        ideal radius and parameter. If your hardware can run it, this is probably
                        what you should use by default.

                 mitchell
                        Mitchell-Netravali.  The  B and C parameters can be set with scale-param1
                        and scale-param2. This filter is very good at downscaling (see dscale).

                 oversample
                        A version of nearest neighbour that (naively) oversamples pixels, so that
                        pixels  overlapping  edges  get linearly interpolated instead of rounded.
                        This essentially removes the small  imperfections  and  judder  artifacts
                        caused  by  nearest-neighbour  interpolation, in exchange for adding some
                        blur. This filter is good at temporal interpolation, and  also  known  as
                        "smoothmotion" (see tscale).

                 custom A user-defined custom shader (see scale-shader).

                 There  are  some  more filters, but most are not as useful. For a complete list,
                 pass help as value, e.g.:

                     mpv --vo=opengl:scale=help

              scale-param1=<value>, scale-param2=<value>
                     Set filter parameters. Ignored if the filter  is  not  tunable.   Currently,
                     this affects the following filter parameters:

                     bcspline
                            Spline parameters (B and C). Defaults to 0.5 for both.

                     gaussian
                            Scale  parameter  (t).  Increasing  this  makes  the result blurrier.
                            Defaults to 1.

                     oversample
                            Minimum distance to an edge before  interpolation  is  used.  Setting
                            this  to  0  will always interpolate edges, whereas setting it to 0.5
                            will never interpolate, thus  behaving  as  if  the  regular  nearest
                            neighbour algorithm was used. Defaults to 0.0.

              scale-blur=<value>
                     Kernel  scaling  factor (also known as a blur factor). Decreasing this makes
                     the result sharper, increasing it makes it blurrier (default 0).  If set  to
                     0,  the  kernel's  preferred blur factor is used. Note that setting this too
                     low (eg. 0.5) leads to bad results. It's generally recommended to  stick  to
                     values between 0.8 and 1.2.

              scale-radius=<value>
                     Set  radius for filters listed below, must be a float number between 0.5 and
                     16.0. Defaults to the filter's preferred radius if not specified.
                        sinc and derivatives, jinc and derivatives, gaussian, box and triangle

                     Note that depending on  filter  implementation  details  and  video  scaling
                     ratio,  the  radius that actually being used might be different (most likely
                     being increased a bit).

              scale-antiring=<value>
                     Set the antiringing strength. This  tries  to  eliminate  ringing,  but  can
                     introduce other artifacts in the process. Must be a float number between 0.0
                     and 1.0. The default value of 0.0 disables antiringing entirely.

                     Note that this doesn't affect the special filters bilinear and bicubic_fast.

              scale-window=<window>
                     (Advanced users only) Choose a custom windowing  function  for  the  kernel.
                     Defaults to the filter's preferred window if unset. Use scale-window=help to
                     get a list of supported windowing functions.

              scale-wparam=<window>
                     (Advanced users only) Configure the parameter for the window function  given
                     by  scale-window.  Ignored  if  the  window is not tunable.  Currently, this
                     affects the following window parameters:

                     kaiser Window parameter (alpha). Defaults to 6.33.

                     blackman
                            Window parameter (alpha). Defaults to 0.16.

                     gaussian
                            Scale  parameter  (t).  Increasing  this  makes  the  window   wider.
                            Defaults to 1.

              scaler-lut-size=<4..10>
                     Set  the  size  of  the lookup texture for scaler kernels (default: 6).  The
                     actual size of the texture is 2^N for an option value of N.  So  the  lookup
                     texture with the default setting uses 64 samples.

                     All  weights  are  bilinearly interpolated from those samples, so increasing
                     the size of lookup table might improve the accuracy of scaler.

              scaler-resizes-only
                     Disable the scaler if the video image is not resized. In that case, bilinear
                     is  used  instead  whatever  is  set with scale. Bilinear will reproduce the
                     source image perfectly if no scaling is performed.  Note  that  this  option
                     never affects cscale.

              pbo    Enable  use  of  PBOs.  This  is  slightly faster, but can sometimes lead to
                     sporadic and temporary image corruption (in theory, because reupload is  not
                     retried  when  it  fails),  and  perhaps actually triggers slower paths with
                     drivers that don't support PBOs properly.

              dither-depth=<N|no|auto>
                     Set dither target depth to N. Default: no.

                     no     Disable any dithering done by mpv.

                     auto   Automatic selection. If output bit depth cannot be detected,  8  bits
                            per component are assumed.

                     8      Dither to 8 bit output.

                     Note  that  the  depth  of  the  connected  video  display device can not be
                     detected. Often, LCD panels will do dithering on their own, which  conflicts
                     with opengl's dithering and leads to ugly output.

              dither-size-fruit=<2-8>
                     Set  the  size  of  the  dither  matrix (default: 6). The actual size of the
                     matrix is (2^N) x (2^N) for an option value of N, so a value of  6  gives  a
                     size  of  64x64. The matrix is generated at startup time, and a large matrix
                     can take rather long to compute (seconds).

                     Used in dither=fruit mode only.

              dither=<fruit|ordered|no>
                     Select dithering algorithm (default:  fruit).  (Normally,  the  dither-depth
                     option controls whether dithering is enabled.)

              temporal-dither
                     Enable temporal dithering. (Only active if dithering is enabled in general.)
                     This changes between 8 different dithering pattern on each frame by changing
                     the orientation of the tiled dithering matrix.  Unfortunately, this can lead
                     to flicker on LCD displays, since these have a high reaction time.

              temporal-dither-period=<1-128>
                     Determines how often the dithering pattern is updated  when  temporal-dither
                     is  in  use.  1  (the  default) will update on every video frame, 2 on every
                     other frame, etc.

              debug  Check for OpenGL errors, i.e. call glGetError(). Also request a debug OpenGL
                     context  (which  does  nothing  with  current  graphics  drivers  as of this
                     writing).

              interpolation
                     Reduce stuttering caused by mismatches in the video fps and display  refresh
                     rate (also known as judder).

                     WARNING:
                        This  requires  setting  the  --video-sync  option to one of the display-
                        modes, or it will be silently disabled.  This was not required before mpv
                        0.14.0.

                     This  essentially  attempts to interpolate the missing frames by convoluting
                     the video along the temporal axis. The filter used can be  controlled  using
                     the tscale setting.

                     Note  that  this  relies  on  vsync  to  work,  see  swapinterval  for  more
                     information.

              swapinterval=<n>
                     Interval in displayed frames between two buffer swaps.  1 is  equivalent  to
                     enable VSYNC, 0 to disable VSYNC. Defaults to 1 if not specified.

                     Note that this depends on proper OpenGL vsync support. On some platforms and
                     drivers, this only works reliably when  in  fullscreen  mode.  It  may  also
                     require  driver-specific  hacks  if  using  multiple monitors, to ensure mpv
                     syncs to the right one. Compositing window managers can  also  lead  to  bad
                     results,   as   can  missing  or  incorrect  display  FPS  information  (see
                     --display-fps).

              dscale=<filter>
                     Like scale, but apply these filters on downscaling instead. If  this  option
                     is unset, the filter implied by scale will be applied.

              cscale=<filter>
                     As  scale,  but  for  interpolating  chroma information. If the image is not
                     subsampled, this option is ignored entirely.

              tscale=<filter>
                     The filter used for interpolating the temporal axis (frames). This  is  only
                     used  if  interpolation  is  enabled.  The only valid choices for tscale are
                     separable convolution filters (use tscale=help to get a list).  The  default
                     is mitchell.

                     Note  that  the  maximum  supported  filter  radius  is  currently 3, due to
                     limitations  in  the  number  of  video  textures   that   can   be   loaded
                     simultaneously.

              tscale-clamp
                     Clamp  the  tscale  filter  kernel's  value  range  to  [0-1].  This reduces
                     excessive ringing artifacts in the temporal domain (which typically manifest
                     themselves as short flashes or fringes of black, mostly around moving edges)
                     in exchange for potentially adding more blur.

              dscale-radius, cscale-radius, tscale-radius, etc.
                     Set filter parameters for dscale, cscale and tscale, respectively.

                     See the corresponding options for scale.

              linear-scaling
                     Scale in linear light. It should only be used with a fbo-format that has  at
                     least 16 bit precision.

              correct-downscaling
                     When   using   convolution  based  filters,  extend  the  filter  size  when
                     downscaling. Increases quality, but reduces performance while downscaling.

                     This will perform slightly sub-optimally for  anamorphic  video  (but  still
                     better  than  without  it)  since  it will extend the size to match only the
                     milder of the scale factors between the axes.

              prescale=<filter>
                     This option provides  non-convolution-based  filters  for  upscaling.  These
                     filters  resize  the  video  to multiple of the original size (all currently
                     supported prescalers can only perform image  doubling  in  a  single  pass).
                     Generally another convolution based filter (the main scaler) will be applied
                     after prescaler to match the target display size.

                     none   Disable all prescalers. This is the default.

                     superxbr
                            A relatively fast prescaler originally developed for pixel art.

                            Some  parameters   can   be   tuned   with   superxbr-sharpness   and
                            superxbr-edge-strength options.

                     nnedi3 An artificial neural network based deinterlacer, which can be used to
                            upscale images.

                            Extremely slow and requires a recent mid or high end graphics card to
                            work smoothly (as of 2015).

                     Note  that  all  the  filters above are designed (or implemented) to process
                     luma plane only and probably won't work as intended for video in RGB format.

              prescale-passes=<1..5>
                     The number of passes to apply the prescaler (defaults to be 1).  Setting  it
                     to 2 will perform a 4x upscaling.

              prescale-downscaling-threshold=<0..32>
                     This  option  prevents  "overkill" use of prescalers, which can be caused by
                     misconfiguration, or user trying to play a video with much larger size. With
                     this  option, user can specify the maximal allowed downscaling ratio in both
                     dimension. To satisfy it,  the  number  of  passes  for  prescaler  will  be
                     reduced, and if necessary prescaler could also be disabled.

                     The  default  value  is  2.0,  and  should be able to prevent most seemingly
                     unreasonable use of prescalers. Most user would probably want to set it to a
                     smaller value between 1.0 and 1.5 for better performance.

                     A value less than 1.0 will disable the check.

              nnedi3-neurons=<16|32|64|128>
                     Specify the neurons for nnedi3 prescaling (defaults to be 32). The rendering
                     time is expected to be linear to the number of neurons.

              nnedi3-window=<8x4|8x6>
                     Specify the size of local window for sampling in nnedi3 prescaling (defaults
                     to be 8x4). The 8x6 window produces sharper images, but is also slower.

              nnedi3-upload=<ubo|shader>
                     Specify how to upload the NN weights to GPU. Depending on the graphics card,
                     driver, shader compiler and nnedi3 settings, both method can  be  faster  or
                     slower.

                     ubo    Upload these weights via uniform buffer objects. This is the default.
                            (requires OpenGL 3.1 / GLES 3.0)

                     shader Hard code all the weights into  the  shader  source  code.  (requires
                            OpenGL 3.3 / GLES 3.0)

              pre-shaders=<files>, post-shaders=<files>, scale-shader=<file>
                     Custom GLSL fragment shaders.

                     pre-shaders (list)
                            These  get  applied  after conversion to RGB and before linearization
                            and upscaling. Operates on non-linear RGB (same as  input).  This  is
                            the best place to put things like sharpen filters.

                     scale-shader
                            This  gets used instead of scale/cscale when those options are set to
                            custom. The colorspace it  operates  on  depends  on  the  values  of
                            linear-scaling  and  sigmoid-upscaling,  so  no assumptions should be
                            made here.

                     post-shaders (list)
                            These  get  applied  after  upscaling  and  subtitle  blending  (when
                            blend-subtitles  is  enabled), but before color management.  Operates
                            on linear RGB if linear-scaling is in  effect,  otherwise  non-linear
                            RGB.  This  is  the  best  place  for colorspace transformations (eg.
                            saturation mapping).

                     These files must define a function with the following signature:

                        vec4 sample(sampler2D tex, vec2 pos, vec2 tex_size)

                     The meanings of the parameters are as follows:

                     sampler2D tex
                            The source texture for the shader.

                     vec2 pos
                            The position to be sampled, in coordinate space [0-1].

                     vec2 tex_size
                            The size of the texture, in pixels. This may differ from  image_size,
                            eg. for subsampled content or for post-shaders.

                     In  addition  to  these parameters, the following uniforms are also globally
                     available:

                     float random
                            A random number in the range [0-1], different per frame.

                     int frame
                            A simple count of frames rendered, increases by  one  per  frame  and
                            never resets (regardless of seeks).

                     vec2 image_size
                            The size in pixels of the input image.

                     For example, a shader that inverts the colors could look like this:

                        vec4 sample(sampler2D tex, vec2 pos, vec2 tex_size)
                        {
                            vec4 color = texture(tex, pos);
                            return vec4(1.0 - color.rgb, color.a);
                        }

              deband Enable  the  debanding algorithm. This greatly reduces the amount of visible
                     banding, blocking and other quantization artifacts, at the expensive of very
                     slightly  blurring  some  of the finest details. In practice, it's virtually
                     always an improvement  -  the  only  reason  to  disable  it  would  be  for
                     performance.

              deband-iterations=<1..16>
                     The number of debanding steps to perform per sample. Each step reduces a bit
                     more banding, but takes time to compute. Note that the strength of each step
                     falls  off  very  quickly,  so  high  numbers  (>4) are practically useless.
                     (Default 1)

              deband-threshold=<0..4096>
                     The debanding  filter's  cut-off  threshold.  Higher  numbers  increase  the
                     debanding  strength  dramatically  but progressively diminish image details.
                     (Default 64)

              deband-range=<1..64>
                     The debanding filter's initial radius. The  radius  increases  linearly  for
                     each iteration. A higher radius will find more gradients, but a lower radius
                     will smooth more aggressively. (Default 16)

                     If you increase the deband-iterations, you should probably decrease this  to
                     compensate.

              deband-grain=<0..4096>
                     Add  some  extra  noise  to  the  image.  This  significantly helps cover up
                     remaining quantization artifacts. Higher numbers add more  noise.   (Default
                     48)

              sigmoid-upscaling
                     When upscaling, use a sigmoidal color transform to avoid emphasizing ringing
                     artifacts. This also implies linear-scaling.

              sigmoid-center
                     The center of the sigmoid curve used for sigmoid-upscaling, must be a  float
                     between 0.0 and 1.0. Defaults to 0.75 if not specified.

              sigmoid-slope
                     The  slope  of the sigmoid curve used for sigmoid-upscaling, must be a float
                     between 1.0 and 20.0. Defaults to 6.5 if not specified.

              sharpen=<value>
                     If set to a value other than 0, enable an unsharp masking filter.   Positive
                     values  will sharpen the image (but add more ringing and aliasing). Negative
                     values will blur the  image.  If  your  GPU  is  powerful  enough,  consider
                     alternatives  like  the  ewa_lanczossharp  scale  filter,  or the scale-blur
                     sub-option.

                     (This feature is the replacement for the old sharpen3 and sharpen5 scalers.)

              glfinish
                     Call glFinish() before  and  after  swapping  buffers  (default:  disabled).
                     Slower, but might help getting better results when doing framedropping.  Can
                     completely ruin performance. The  details  depend  entirely  on  the  OpenGL
                     driver.

              waitvsync
                     Call  glXWaitVideoSyncSGI  after each buffer swap (default: disabled).  This
                     may or may not help with video timing accuracy and frame drop. It's possible
                     that this makes video output slower, or has no effect at all.

                     X11/GLX only.

              vsync-fences=<N>
                     Synchronize the CPU to the Nth past frame using the GL_ARB_sync extension. A
                     value of 0 disables this behavior (default). A value  of  1  means  it  will
                     synchronize  to  the  current  frame  after rendering it.  Like glfinish and
                     waitvsync, this can lower or ruin performance.  Its advantage is that it can
                     span  multiple  frames,  and  effectively limit the number of frames the GPU
                     queues ahead (which also has an influence on vsync).

              dwmflush=<no|windowed|yes|auto>
                     Calls DwmFlush after swapping buffers on Windows (default: auto).   It  also
                     sets SwapInterval(0) to ignore the OpenGL timing. Values are: no (disabled),
                     windowed (only in windowed mode), yes (also in full screen).

                     The value auto will try to determine whether the compositor is  active,  and
                     calls DwmFlush only if it seems to be.

                     This  may  help  getting  more  consistent  frame intervals, especially with
                     high-fps clips - which might also reduce dropped frames. Typically  a  value
                     of windowed should be enough since full screen may bypass the DWM.

                     Windows only.

              sw     Continue even if a software renderer is detected.

              backend=<sys>
                     The  value  auto  (the  default) selects the windowing backend. You can also
                     pass help to get  a  complete  list  of  compiled  in  backends  (sorted  by
                     autoprobe order).

                     auto   auto-select (default)

                     cocoa  Cocoa/OS X

                     win    Win32/WGL

                     angle  Direct3D11  through  the  OpenGL  ES  translation  layer  ANGLE. This
                            supports almost everything the win backend does, except ICC profiles,
                            high bit depth video input, and the nnedi3 prescaler.

                     dxinterop (experimental)
                            Win32,  using  WGL  for  rendering and Direct3D 9Ex for presentation.
                            Works on Nvidia and AMD only.

                     x11    X11/GLX

                     wayland
                            Wayland/EGL

                     drm-egl
                            DRM/EGL

                     x11egl X11/EGL

              es=<mode>
                     Select whether to use GLES:

                     yes    Try to prefer ES over Desktop GL

                     no     Try to prefer desktop GL over ES

                     auto   Use the default for each backend (default)

              fbo-format=<fmt>
                     Selects the internal format of  textures  used  for  FBOs.  The  format  can
                     influence  performance  and quality of the video output.  fmt can be one of:
                     rgb, rgba, rgb8, rgb10, rgb10_a2, rgb16,  rgb16f,  rgb32f,  rgba12,  rgba16,
                     rgba16f,  rgba32f.   Default:  auto, which maps to rgba16 on desktop GL, and
                     rgb10_a2 on GLES (e.g. ANGLE).

              gamma=<0.1..2.0>
                     Set a gamma value (default: 1.0). If gamma is adjusted in other  ways  (like
                     with  the  --gamma option or key bindings and the gamma property), the value
                     is multiplied with the other gamma value.

                     Recommended values based on the environmental brightness:

                     1.0    Brightly illuminated (default)

                     0.9    Slightly dim

                     0.8    Pitch black room

              gamma-auto
                     Automatically  corrects  the  gamma  value  depending  on  ambient  lighting
                     conditions (adding a gamma boost for dark rooms).

                     With  ambient  illuminance  of  64lux, mpv will pick the 1.0 gamma value (no
                     boost), and slightly increase the boost up until 0.8 for 16lux.

                     NOTE: Only implemented on OS X.

              target-prim=<value>
                     Specifies the primaries of the display. Video colors will be adapted to this
                     colorspace if necessary. Valid values are:

                     auto   Disable any adaptation (default)

                     bt.470m
                            ITU-R BT.470 M

                     bt.601-525
                            ITU-R BT.601 (525-line SD systems, eg. NTSC), SMPTE 170M/240M

                     bt.601-625
                            ITU-R BT.601 (625-line SD systems, eg. PAL/SECAM), ITU-R BT.470 B/G

                     bt.709 ITU-R BT.709 (HD), IEC 61966-2-4 (sRGB), SMPTE RP177 Annex B

                     bt.2020
                            ITU-R BT.2020 (UHD)

                     apple  Apple RGB

                     adobe  Adobe RGB (1998)

                     prophoto
                            ProPhoto RGB (ROMM)

                     cie1931
                            CIE 1931 RGB (not to be confused with CIE XYZ)

              target-trc=<value>
                     Specifies  the transfer characteristics (gamma) of the display. Video colors
                     will be adjusted to this curve. Valid values are:

                     auto   Disable any adaptation (default)

                     bt.1886
                            ITU-R BT.1886 curve, without the brightness drop (approx. 1.961)

                     srgb   IEC 61966-2-4 (sRGB)

                     linear Linear light output

                     gamma1.8
                            Pure power curve (gamma 1.8), also used for Apple RGB

                     gamma2.2
                            Pure power curve (gamma 2.2)

                     gamma2.8
                            Pure power curve (gamma 2.8), also used for BT.470-BG

                     prophoto
                            ProPhoto RGB (ROMM)

              icc-profile=<file>
                     Load an ICC profile and use it to transform linear  RGB  to  screen  output.
                     Needs   LittleCMS   2   support  compiled  in.  This  option  overrides  the
                     target-prim, target-trc and icc-profile-auto options.

              icc-profile-auto
                     Automatically select the ICC display  profile  currently  specified  by  the
                     display settings of the operating system.

                     NOTE:  On  Windows, the default profile must be an ICC profile. WCS profiles
                     are not supported.

              icc-cache-dir=<dirname>
                     Store and load the 3D LUTs created from the ICC profile in  this  directory.
                     This  can be used to speed up loading, since LittleCMS 2 can take a while to
                     create a 3D LUT. Note that these files  contain  uncompressed  LUTs.   Their
                     size depends on the 3dlut-size, and can be very big.

                     NOTE:  This  is  not  cleaned  automatically, so old, unused cache files may
                     stick around indefinitely.

              icc-intent=<value>
                     Specifies the ICC intent used  for  the  color  transformation  (when  using
                     icc-profile).

                     0      perceptual

                     1      relative colorimetric (default)

                     2      saturation

                     3      absolute colorimetric

              3dlut-size=<r>x<g>x<b>
                     Size  of  the  3D  LUT  generated  from  the  ICC profile in each dimension.
                     Default is 128x256x64.  Sizes must be a power of two, and 512 at most.

              blend-subtitles=<yes|video|no>
                     Blend subtitles directly onto upscaled video  frames,  before  interpolation
                     and/or  color management (default: no). Enabling this causes subtitles to be
                     affected by icc-profile, target-prim, target-trc, interpolation,  gamma  and
                     post-shader.   It   also   increases   subtitle   performance   when   using
                     interpolation.

                     The downside of enabling this is that it restricts subtitles to the  visible
                     portion of the video, so you can't have subtitles exist in the black margins
                     below a video (for example).

                     If video is selected, the behavior is similar to yes, but subs are drawn  at
                     the video's native resolution, and scaled along with the video.

                     WARNING:
                        This  changes  the  way  subtitle  colors are handled. Normally, subtitle
                        colors are assumed to be in sRGB and color managed as such. Enabling this
                        makes  them  treated as being in the video's color space instead. This is
                        good if you want things like softsubbed ASS  signs  to  match  the  video
                        colors, but may cause SRT subtitles or similar to look slightly off.

              alpha=<blend|yes|no>
                     Decides what to do if the input has an alpha component (default: blend).

                     blend  Blend the frame against a black background.

                     yes    Try  to  create  a  framebuffer with alpha component. This only makes
                            sense if the video contains alpha  information  (which  is  extremely
                            rare).  May  not be supported on all platforms. If alpha framebuffers
                            are unavailable, it silently falls back on a normal framebuffer. Note
                            that  if  you  set  the  fbo-format  option to a non-default value, a
                            format with alpha must be specified, or this won't work.

                     no     Ignore alpha component.

              rectangle-textures
                     Force use of rectangle textures (default: no). Normally this shouldn't  have
                     any  advantages  over normal textures. Note that hardware decoding overrides
                     this flag.

              background=<color>
                     Color used to draw parts of the  mpv  window  not  covered  by  video.   See
                     --osd-color option how colors are defined.

       opengl-hq
              Same as opengl, but with default settings for high quality rendering.

              This is equivalent to:

                 --vo=opengl:scale=spline36:cscale=spline36:dscale=mitchell:dither-depth=auto:correct-downscaling:sigmoid-upscaling:pbo:deband:es=no

              Note  that  some  cheaper  LCDs  do dithering that gravely interferes with opengl's
              dithering. Disabling dithering with dither-depth=no helps.

       sdl    SDL 2.0+ Render video output driver, depending on system with or  without  hardware
              acceleration. Should work on all platforms supported by SDL 2.0.  For tuning, refer
              to your copy of the file SDL_hints.h.

              NOTE:
                 This driver is for compatibility with systems that don't provide proper graphics
                 drivers, or which support GLES only.

              sw     Continue even if a software renderer is detected.

              switch-mode
                     Instruct SDL to switch the monitor video mode when going fullscreen.

       vaapi  Intel  VA  API  video  output  driver with support for hardware decoding. Note that
              there is absolutely no reason to use this,  other  than  wanting  to  use  hardware
              decoding  to  save power on laptops, or possibly preventing video tearing with some
              setups.

              NOTE:
                 This driver is for compatibility with crappy systems. You can use vaapi hardware
                 decoding with --vo=opengl too.

              scaling=<algorithm>

                     default
                            Driver default (mpv default as well).

                     fast   Fast, but low quality.

                     hq     Unspecified driver dependent high-quality scaling, slow.

                     nla    non-linear anamorphic scaling

              deint-mode=<mode>
                     Select  deinterlacing  algorithm.  Note  that  by  default  deinterlacing is
                     initially always off, and needs to be enabled with the d  key  (default  key
                     binding for cycle deinterlace).

                     This option doesn't apply if libva supports video post processing (vpp).  In
                     this case, the default for deint-mode is no, and enabling deinterlacing  via
                     user  interaction  using  the  methods  mentioned above actually inserts the
                     vavpp video filter. If vpp is not actually supported with the libva  backend
                     in use, you can use this option to forcibly enable VO based deinterlacing.

                     no     Don't allow deinterlacing (default for newer libva).

                     first-field
                            Show only first field (going by --field-dominance).

                     bob    bob deinterlacing (default for older libva).

              scaled-osd=<yes|no>
                     If  enabled,  then  the  OSD  is  rendered at video resolution and scaled to
                     display resolution. By default, this is disabled, and the OSD is rendered at
                     display resolution if the driver supports it.

       null   Produces no video output. Useful for benchmarking.

              Usually, it's better to disable video with --no-video instead.

              fps=<value>
                     Simulate  display  FPS.  This  artificially  limits  how  many frames the VO
                     accepts per second.

       caca   Color ASCII art video output driver that works on a text console.

              NOTE:
                 This driver is a joke.

       image  Output each frame into an image file in the current directory. Each file takes  the
              frame number padded with leading zeros as name.

              format=<format>
                     Select the image file format.

                     jpg    JPEG files, extension .jpg. (Default.)

                     jpeg   JPEG files, extension .jpeg.

                     png    PNG files.

                     ppm    Portable bitmap format.

                     pgm    Portable graymap format.

                     pgmyuv Portable graymap format, using the YV12 pixel format.

                     tga    Truevision TGA.

              png-compression=<0-9>
                     PNG compression factor (speed vs. file size tradeoff) (default: 7)

              png-filter=<0-5>
                     Filter  applied  prior  to  PNG  compression (0 = none; 1 = sub; 2 = up; 3 =
                     average; 4 = Paeth; 5 = mixed) (default: 5)

              jpeg-quality=<0-100>
                     JPEG quality factor (default: 90)

              (no-)jpeg-progressive
                     Specify standard or progressive JPEG (default: no).

              (no-)jpeg-baseline
                     Specify use of JPEG baseline or not (default: yes).

              jpeg-optimize=<0-100>
                     JPEG optimization factor (default: 100)

              jpeg-smooth=<0-100>
                     smooth factor (default: 0)

              jpeg-dpi=<1->
                     JPEG DPI (default: 72)

              outdir=<dirname>
                     Specify the directory to save the image files to (default: ./).

       wayland (Wayland only)
              Wayland shared memory video output as fallback for opengl.

              NOTE:
                 This driver is for compatibility with systems that don't provide working  OpenGL
                 drivers.

              alpha  Use a buffer format that supports videos and images with alpha information

              rgb565 Use  RGB565  as buffer format. This format is implemented on most platforms,
                     especially on embedded where it is far more efficient then RGB8888.

              triple-buffering
                     Use 3 buffers instead of 2. This can lead to more fluid playback,  but  uses
                     more memory.

       opengl-cb
              For  use  with libmpv direct OpenGL embedding; useless in any other contexts.  (See
              <mpv/opengl_cb.h>.)

              This  also  supports  many  of  the  suboptions  the  opengl  VO   has.   Run   mpv
              --vo=opengl-cb:help for a list.

              This also supports the vo_cmdline command.

       rpi (Raspberry Pi)
              Native video output on the Raspberry Pi using the MMAL API.

              display=<number>
                     Select  the  display  number  on  which  the  video  overlay should be shown
                     (default: 0).

              layer=<number>
                     Select the dispmanx layer  on  which  the  video  overlay  should  be  shown
                     (default:  -10). Note that mpv will also use the 2 layers above the selected
                     layer, to handle the window background and OSD. Actual video rendering  will
                     happen on the layer above the selected layer.

              background=<yes|no>
                     Whether  to  render  a  black  background  behind  the  video (default: no).
                     Normally it's better to kill the console framebuffer  instead,  which  gives
                     better performance.

              osd=<yes|no>
                     Enabled by default. If disabled with no, no OSD layer is created.  This also
                     means there will be no subtitles rendered.

       drm (Direct Rendering Manager)
              Video output driver using Kernel Mode Setting / Direct Rendering  Manager.   Should
              be  used when one doesn't want to install full-blown graphical environment (e.g. no
              X). Does not support hardware acceleration (if you need  this,  check  the  drm-egl
              backend for opengl VO).

              connector=<number>
                     Select  the  connector to use (usually this is a monitor.) If set to -1, mpv
                     renders the output on the first available connector. (default: -1)

              devpath=<filename>
                     Path to graphic card device.  (default: /dev/dri/card0)

              mode=<number>
                     Mode ID to use (resolution, bit depth and frame rate).  (default: 0)

AUDIO FILTERS

       Audio filters allow you to modify the audio stream and its properties. The syntax is:

       --af=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
              Setup a chain of audio filters.

       NOTE:
          To get a full list of available audio filters, see --af=help.

          Also, keep in mind that most actual filters are available via the lavfi wrapper,  which
          gives  you access to most of libavfilter's filters. This includes all filters that have
          been ported from MPlayer to libavfilter.

       You can also set defaults for each filter. The defaults  are  applied  before  the  normal
       filter parameters.

       --af-defaults=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
              Set defaults for each filter.

       Audio filters are managed in lists. There are a few commands to manage the filter list:

       --af-add=<filter1[,filter2,...]>
              Appends the filters given as arguments to the filter list.

       --af-pre=<filter1[,filter2,...]>
              Prepends the filters given as arguments to the filter list.

       --af-del=<index1[,index2,...]>
              Deletes  the  filters  at  the  given  indexes.  Index numbers start at 0, negative
              numbers address the end of the list (-1 is the last).

       --af-clr
              Completely empties the filter list.

       Available filters are:

       lavrresample[=option1:option2:...]
              This filter uses libavresample (or libswresample, depending on the build) to change
              sample  rate, sample format, or channel layout of the audio stream.  This filter is
              automatically enabled if the audio output does not support the audio  configuration
              of the file being played.

              It supports only the following sample formats: u8, s16, s32, float.

              filter-size=<length>
                     Length of the filter with respect to the lower sampling rate. (default: 16)

              phase-shift=<count>
                     Log2 of the number of polyphase entries. (..., 10->1024, 11->2048, 12->4096,
                     ...) (default: 10->1024)

              cutoff=<cutoff>
                     Cutoff frequency (0.0-1.0), default set depending upon filter length.

              linear If set then filters will be linearly interpolated between polyphase entries.
                     (default: no)

              no-detach
                     Do not detach if input and output audio format/rate/channels match.  (If you
                     just want to set defaults  for  this  filter  that  will  be  used  even  by
                     automatically  inserted  lavrresample  instances,  you should prefer setting
                     them with --af-defaults=lavrresample:....)

              normalize=<yes|no>
                     Whether to normalize when remixing channel layouts (default: yes).  This  is
                     e.g. applied when downmixing surround audio to stereo. The advantage is that
                     this guarantees that no clipping can happen. Unfortunately,  this  can  also
                     lead  to  too  low  volume  levels.  Whether  you  enable or disable this is
                     essentially a matter of taste, but the default uses the safer choice.

              o=<string>
                     Set AVOptions on the SwrContext or AVAudioResampleContext. These  should  be
                     documented by FFmpeg or Libav.

       lavcac3enc[=tospdif[:bitrate[:minch]]]
              Encode  multi-channel  audio  to  AC-3 at runtime using libavcodec. Supports 16-bit
              native-endian input format, maximum 6  channels.  The  output  is  big-endian  when
              outputting a raw AC-3 stream, native-endian when outputting to S/PDIF. If the input
              sample rate is not 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz or 32 kHz, it will be resampled to 48 kHz.

              tospdif=<yes|no>
                     Output raw AC-3 stream if no, output  to  S/PDIF  for  pass-through  if  yes
                     (default).

              bitrate=<rate>
                     The bitrate use for the AC-3 stream. Set it to 384 to get 384 kbps.

                     The default is 640. Some receivers might not be able to handle this.

                     Valid values: 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320,
                     384, 448, 512, 576, 640.

                     The special value auto selects a default bitrate based on the input  channel
                     number:

                     1ch    96

                     2ch    192

                     3ch    224

                     4ch    384

                     5ch    448

                     6ch    448

              minch=<n>
                     If  the  input  channel  number is less than <minch>, the filter will detach
                     itself (default: 3).

       equalizer=g1:g2:g3:...:g10
              10 octave band graphic equalizer, implemented using 10 IIR band-pass filters.  This
              means  that  it  works  regardless  of what type of audio is being played back. The
              center frequencies for the 10 bands are:

                                              ┌────┬────────────┐
                                              │No. │ frequency  │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │0   │ 31.25  Hz  │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │1   │ 62.50  Hz  │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │2   │ 125.00  Hz │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │3   │ 250.00  Hz │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │4   │ 500.00  Hz │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │5   │ 1.00 kHz   │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │6   │ 2.00 kHz   │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │7   │ 4.00 kHz   │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │8   │ 8.00 kHz   │
                                              ├────┼────────────┤
                                              │9   │ 16.00 kHz  │
                                              └────┴────────────┘

              If the sample rate of the sound being played is lower than the center frequency for
              a  frequency band, then that band will be disabled. A known bug with this filter is
              that the characteristics for the uppermost band are not completely symmetric if the
              sample  rate  is  close  to  the center frequency of that band. This problem can be
              worked around by upsampling the sound using a resampling filter before  it  reaches
              this filter.

              <g1>:<g2>:<g3>:...:<g10>
                     floating  point  numbers representing the gain in dB for each frequency band
                     (-12-12)

                 Example

                 mpv --af=equalizer=11:11:10:5:0:-12:0:5:12:12 media.avi
                        Would amplify the sound in the upper and  lower  frequency  region  while
                        canceling it almost completely around 1 kHz.

       channels=nch[:routes]
              Can be used for adding, removing, routing and copying audio channels. If only <nch>
              is given, the default routing is used. It works as follows: If the number of output
              channels  is greater than the number of input channels, empty channels are inserted
              (except when mixing from mono to stereo; then the mono channel is  duplicated).  If
              the  number  of  output  channels  is  less  than the number of input channels, the
              exceeding channels are truncated.

              <nch>  number of output channels (1-8)

              <routes>
                     List of , separated routes, in the form from1-to1,from2-to2,....  Each  pair
                     defines  where to route each channel. There can be at most 8 routes. Without
                     this argument, the default routing is used. Since , is also used to separate
                     filters, you must quote this argument with [...] or similar.

                 Examples

                 mpv --af=channels=4:[0-1,1-0,2-2,3-3] media.avi
                        Would  change  the  number of channels to 4 and set up 4 routes that swap
                        channel 0 and channel 1 and leave channel 2 and 3 intact.   Observe  that
                        if media containing two channels were played back, channels 2 and 3 would
                        contain silence but 0 and 1 would still be swapped.

                 mpv --af=channels=6:[0-0,0-1,0-2,0-3] media.avi
                        Would change the number of channels to 6 and set up 4  routes  that  copy
                        channel 0 to channels 0 to 3. Channel 4 and 5 will contain silence.

              NOTE:
                 You  should  probably  not  use  this  filter.  If you want to change the output
                 channel layout, try the format filter, which can make mpv automatically up-  and
                 downmix standard channel layouts.

       format=format:srate:channels:out-format:out-srate:out-channels
              Does not do any format conversion itself. Rather, it may cause the filter system to
              insert necessary conversion filters before or after this filter if  needed.  It  is
              primarily  useful  for  controlling  the  audio format going into other filters. To
              specify the format for audio output, see  --audio-format,  --audio-samplerate,  and
              --audio-channels.  This  filter  is  able  to  force  a  particular format, whereas
              --audio-* may be overridden by the ao based on output compatibility.

              All parameters are optional. The  first  3  parameters  restrict  what  the  filter
              accepts  as  input.  They  will  therefore  cause conversion filters to be inserted
              before this one.  The out- parameters tell the filters or audio  outputs  following
              this  filter how to interpret the data without actually doing a conversion. Setting
              these will probably just break things unless you really know you want this for some
              reason, such as testing or dealing with broken media.

              <format>
                     Force  conversion  to this format. Use --af=format=format=help to get a list
                     of valid formats.

              <srate>
                     Force conversion to a specific sample rate. The rate is  an  integer,  48000
                     for example.

              <channels>
                     Force  mixing  to a specific channel layout. See --audio-channels option for
                     possible values.

              <out-format>

              <out-srate>

              <out-channels>

              NOTE: this filter used to be  named  force.  The  old  format  filter  used  to  do
              conversion  itself,  unlike  this  one  which  lets  the  filter  system handle the
              conversion.

       volume[=<volumedb>[:...]]
              Implements software volume control. Use this  filter  with  caution  since  it  can
              reduce  the signal to noise ratio of the sound. In most cases it is best to use the
              Master volume control of your sound card or the volume knob on your amplifier.

              NOTE: This filter is not reentrant and can therefore only be enabled once for every
              audio stream.

              <volumedb>
                     Sets  the  desired gain in dB for all channels in the stream from -200 dB to
                     +60 dB, where -200 dB mutes the sound completely and +60 dB equals a gain of
                     1000 (default: 0).

              replaygain-track
                     Adjust  volume  gain  according to the track-gain replaygain value stored in
                     the file metadata.

              replaygain-album
                     Like replaygain-track, but using the album-gain value instead.

              replaygain-preamp
                     Pre-amplification gain in dB  to  apply  to  the  selected  replaygain  gain
                     (default: 0).

              replaygain-clip=yes|no
                     Prevent  clipping  caused  by  replaygain by automatically lowering the gain
                     (default). Use replaygain-clip=no to disable this.

              replaygain-fallback
                     Gain in dB to apply if the file has no replay  gain  tags.  This  option  is
                     always  applied  if  the  replaygain  logic  is somehow inactive. If this is
                     applied, no other replaygain options are applied.

              softclip
                     Turns soft clipping on. Soft-clipping can make the sound more smooth if very
                     high  volume levels are used. Enable this option if the dynamic range of the
                     loudspeakers is very low.

                     WARNING: This feature creates distortion and should  be  considered  a  last
                     resort.

              s16    Force  S16  sample format if set. Lower quality, but might be faster in some
                     situations.

              detach Remove the filter if the volume is not changed at audio filter config  time.
                     Useful with replaygain: if the current file has no replaygain tags, then the
                     filter will be removed if this option is enabled.  (If --softvol=yes is used
                     and  the player volume controls are used during playback, a different volume
                     filter will be inserted.)

                 Example

                 mpv --af=volume=10.1 media.avi
                        Would amplify the sound by 10.1 dB and hard-clip if the  sound  level  is
                        too high.

       pan=n:[<matrix>]
              Mixes  channels arbitrarily. Basically a combination of the volume and the channels
              filter that can be used to down-mix many channels to only a  few,  e.g.  stereo  to
              mono,  or  vary  the "width" of the center speaker in a surround sound system. This
              filter is hard to use, and will require some tinkering before the desired result is
              obtained.  The  number  of  options for this filter depends on the number of output
              channels. An example how to downmix a six-channel file to two  channels  with  this
              filter can be found in the examples section near the end.

              <n>    Number of output channels (1-8).

              <matrix>
                     A  list  of  values [L00,L01,L02,...,L10,L11,L12,...,Ln0,Ln1,Ln2,...], where
                     each element Lij means how much of input channel  i  is  mixed  into  output
                     channel  j (range 0-1). So in principle you first have n numbers saying what
                     to do with the first input channel, then n numbers that act  on  the  second
                     input  channel  etc.  If  you  do  not  specify  any  numbers for some input
                     channels, 0 is assumed.  Note that the values are separated by ,,  which  is
                     already  used by the option parser to separate filters. This is why you must
                     quote the value list with [...] or similar.

                 Examples

                 mpv --af=pan=1:[0.5,0.5] media.avi
                        Would downmix from stereo to mono.

                 mpv --af=pan=3:[1,0,0.5,0,1,0.5] media.avi
                        Would give 3 channel output leaving channels 0  and  1  intact,  and  mix
                        channels  0  and  1  into  output  channel  2  (which  could be sent to a
                        subwoofer for example).

              NOTE:
                 If you just want to force remixing to a certain output  channel  layout,  it  is
                 easier  to  use  the  format filter. For example, mpv '--af=format=channels=5.1'
                 '--audio-channels=5.1' would always force remixing audio to 5.1  and  output  it
                 like this.

       delay[=[ch1,ch2,...]]
              Delays  the  sound  to  the  loudspeakers  such  that  the sound from the different
              channels arrives at the listening position simultaneously. It is only useful if you
              have more than 2 loudspeakers.

              [ch1,ch2,...]
                     The  delay  in  ms  that  should  be imposed on each channel (floating point
                     number between 0 and 1000).

              To calculate the required delay for the different channels, do as follows:

              1. Measure the distance to the loudspeakers in meters in relation to your listening
                 position,  giving  you  the  distances  s1 to s5 (for a 5.1 system). There is no
                 point in compensating for the  subwoofer  (you  will  not  hear  the  difference
                 anyway).

              2. Subtract the distances s1 to s5 from the maximum distance, i.e.  s[i] = max(s) -
                 s[i]; i = 1...5.

              3. Calculate the required delays in ms as d[i] = 1000*s[i]/342; i = 1...5.

                 Example

                 mpv --af=delay=[10.5,10.5,0,0,7,0] media.avi
                        Would delay front left and right by 10.5 ms, the two  rear  channels  and
                        the subwoofer by 0 ms and the center channel by 7 ms.

       drc[=method:target]
              Applies  dynamic  range  compression.  This maximizes the volume by compressing the
              audio signal's dynamic range. (Formerly called volnorm.)

              <method>
                     Sets the used method.

                     1      Use a single  sample  to  smooth  the  variations  via  the  standard
                            weighted mean over past samples (default).

                     2      Use  several  samples  to  smooth  the  variations  via  the standard
                            weighted mean over past samples.

              <target>
                     Sets the target amplitude as a fraction of the maximum for the  sample  type
                     (default: 0.25).

              NOTE:
                 This  filter  can  cause  distortion  with  audio signals that have a very large
                 dynamic range.

       scaletempo[=option1:option2:...]
              Scales audio tempo without altering pitch,  optionally  synced  to  playback  speed
              (default).

              This  works  by  playing  'stride'  ms  of  audio  at  normal  speed then consuming
              'stride*scale' ms of input audio.  It  pieces  the  strides  together  by  blending
              'overlap'%  of  stride  with  audio  following  the  previous stride. It optionally
              performs a short statistical analysis on the next 'search' ms of audio to determine
              the best overlap position.

              scale=<amount>
                     Nominal  amount  to  scale  tempo.  Scales this amount in addition to speed.
                     (default: 1.0)

              stride=<amount>
                     Length in milliseconds to output each stride. Too high of a value will cause
                     noticeable  skips  at  high  scale amounts and an echo at low scale amounts.
                     Very low values will alter pitch. Increasing improves performance. (default:
                     60)

              overlap=<percent>
                     Percentage of stride to overlap. Decreasing improves performance.  (default:
                     .20)

              search=<amount>
                     Length in milliseconds to  search  for  best  overlap  position.  Decreasing
                     improves performance greatly. On slow systems, you will probably want to set
                     this very low. (default: 14)

              speed=<tempo|pitch|both|none>
                     Set response to speed change.

                     tempo  Scale tempo in sync with speed (default).

                     pitch  Reverses effect of filter. Scales pitch without altering tempo.   Add
                            this to your input.conf to step by musical semi-tones:

                               [ multiply speed 0.9438743126816935
                               ] multiply speed 1.059463094352953

                            WARNING:
                               Loses sync with video.

                     both   Scale both tempo and pitch.

                     none   Ignore speed changes.

                 Examples

                 mpv --af=scaletempo --speed=1.2 media.ogg
                        Would  play  media  at  1.2x  normal  speed,  with audio at normal pitch.
                        Changing playback speed would change audio tempo to match.

                 mpv --af=scaletempo=scale=1.2:speed=none --speed=1.2 media.ogg
                        Would play media at 1.2x normal speed, with audio at  normal  pitch,  but
                        changing playback speed would have no effect on audio tempo.

                 mpv --af=scaletempo=stride=30:overlap=.50:search=10 media.ogg
                        Would tweak the quality and performance parameters.

                 mpv --af=format=float,scaletempo media.ogg
                        Would make scaletempo use float code. Maybe faster on some platforms.

                 mpv --af=scaletempo=scale=1.2:speed=pitch audio.ogg
                        Would  play  media  at  1.2x  normal  speed,  with audio at normal pitch.
                        Changing playback speed would change pitch, leaving audio tempo at 1.2x.

       rubberband
              High quality pitch correction with librubberband. This can  be  used  in  place  of
              scaletempo,  and will be used to adjust audio pitch when playing at speed different
              from normal.

              This  filter  has  a  number  of  sub-options.  You  can   list   them   with   mpv
              --af=rubberband=help.  This  will also show the default values for each option. The
              options are not documented here, because they are merely passed  to  librubberband.
              Look   at   the  librubberband  documentation  to  learn  what  each  option  does:
              http://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/code-doc/classRubberBand_1_1RubberBandStretcher.html
              (The  mapping  of the mpv rubberband filter sub-option names and values to those of
              librubberband follows a simple pattern: "Option" + Name + Value.)

       lavfi=graph
              Filter audio using FFmpeg's libavfilter.

              <graph>
                     Libavfilter graph. See lavfi video filter for details - the graph syntax  is
                     the same.

                     WARNING:
                        Don't  forget to quote libavfilter graphs as described in the lavfi video
                        filter section.

              o=<string>
                     AVOptions.

VIDEO FILTERS

       Video filters allow you to modify the video stream and its properties. The syntax is:

       --vf=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
              Setup a chain of video filters.

       You can also set defaults for each filter. The defaults  are  applied  before  the  normal
       filter parameters.

       --vf-defaults=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
              Set defaults for each filter.

       NOTE:
          To get a full list of available video filters, see --vf=help.

          Also,  keep in mind that most actual filters are available via the lavfi wrapper, which
          gives you access to most of libavfilter's filters. This includes all filters that  have
          been ported from MPlayer to libavfilter.

       Video filters are managed in lists. There are a few commands to manage the filter list.

       --vf-add=<filter1[,filter2,...]>
              Appends the filters given as arguments to the filter list.

       --vf-pre=<filter1[,filter2,...]>
              Prepends the filters given as arguments to the filter list.

       --vf-del=<index1[,index2,...]>
              Deletes  the  filters  at  the  given  indexes.  Index numbers start at 0, negative
              numbers address the end of the list (-1 is the last).

       --vf-clr
              Completely empties the filter list.

       With filters that support it, you can access parameters by their name.

       --vf=<filter>=help
              Prints the parameter names and parameter value ranges for a particular filter.

       --vf=<filter=named_parameter1=value1[:named_parameter2=value2:...]>
              Sets a named parameter to the given value. Use on and off or yes and no to set flag
              parameters.

       Available filters are:

       crop[=w:h:x:y]
              Crops  the  given  part  of the image and discards the rest. Useful to remove black
              bands from widescreen videos.

              <w>,<h>
                     Cropped width and height, defaults to original width and height.

              <x>,<y>
                     Position of the cropped picture, defaults to center.

       expand[=w:h:x:y:aspect:round]
              Expands (not scales) video resolution to the given value and  places  the  unscaled
              original at coordinates x, y.

              <w>,<h>
                     Expanded  width,height (default: original width,height). Negative values for
                     w and h are treated as offsets to the original size.

                        Example

                        expand=0:-50:0:0
                               Adds a 50 pixel border to the bottom of the picture.

              <x>,<y>
                     position of original image on the expanded image (default: center)

              <aspect>
                     Expands to fit an aspect instead of a resolution (default: 0).

                        Example

                        expand=800::::4/3
                               Expands to 800x600, unless the source  is  higher  resolution,  in
                               which case it expands to fill a 4/3 aspect.

              <round>
                     Rounds up to make both width and height divisible by <r> (default: 1).

       flip   Flips the image upside down.

       mirror Mirrors the image on the Y axis.

       rotate[=0|90|180|270]
              Rotates the image by a multiple of 90 degrees clock-wise.

       scale[=w:h:param:param2:chr-drop:noup:arnd
              Scales  the  image  with  the software scaler (slow) and performs a YUV<->RGB color
              space conversion (see also --sws).

              All parameters are optional.

              <w>:<h>
                     scaled width/height (default: original width/height)

                     0      scaled d_width/d_height

                     -1     original width/height

                     -2     Calculate w/h using the other  dimension  and  the  prescaled  aspect
                            ratio.

                     -3     Calculate  w/h  using  the  other  dimension  and the original aspect
                            ratio.

                     -(n+8) Like -n above, but rounding the dimension to the closest multiple  of
                            16.

              <param>[:<param2>] (see also --sws)
                     Set  some  scaling  parameters depending on the type of scaler selected with
                     --sws:

                        --sws=2 (bicubic):  B (blurring) and C (ringing)
                            0.00:0.60 default
                            0.00:0.75 VirtualDub's "precise bicubic"
                            0.00:0.50 Catmull-Rom spline
                            0.33:0.33 Mitchell-Netravali spline
                            1.00:0.00 cubic B-spline

                        --sws=7 (Gaussian): sharpness (0 (soft) - 100 (sharp))

                        --sws=9 (Lanczos):  filter length (1-10)

              <chr-drop>
                     chroma skipping

                     0      Use all available input lines for chroma (default).

                     1      Use only every 2. input line for chroma.

                     2      Use only every 4. input line for chroma.

                     3      Use only every 8. input line for chroma.

              <noup> Disallow upscaling past the original dimensions.

                     0      Allow upscaling (default).

                     1      Disallow upscaling if one dimension exceeds its original value.

                     2      Disallow upscaling if both dimensions exceed their original values.

              <arnd> Accurate rounding for the vertical scaler, which may  be  faster  or  slower
                     than the default rounding.

                     no     Disable accurate rounding (default).

                     yes    Enable accurate rounding.

       dsize[=w:h:aspect-method:r:aspect]
              Changes the intended display size/aspect at an arbitrary point in the filter chain.
              Aspect can  be  given  as  a  fraction  (4/3)  or  floating  point  number  (1.33).
              Alternatively,  you  may  specify  the exact display width and height desired. Note
              that this filter does not do any scaling itself; it just affects what later scalers
              (software or hardware) will do when auto-scaling to the correct aspect.

              <w>,<h>
                     New display width and height.

                     Can also be these special values:

                     0      original display width and height

                     -1     original video width and height (default)

                     -2     Calculate  w/h  using  the  other  dimension and the original display
                            aspect ratio.

                     -3     Calculate w/h using the other dimension and the original video aspect
                            ratio.

                        Example

                        dsize=800:-2
                               Specifies  a display resolution of 800x600 for a 4/3 aspect video,
                               or 800x450 for a 16/9 aspect video.

              <aspect-method>
                     Modifies width and height according to original aspect ratios.

                     -1     Ignore original aspect ratio (default).

                     0      Keep display aspect ratio by using <w> and <h> as maximum resolution.

                     1      Keep display aspect ratio by using <w> and <h> as minimum resolution.

                     2      Keep video aspect ratio by using <w> and <h> as maximum resolution.

                     3      Keep video aspect ratio by using <w> and <h> as minimum resolution.

                        Example

                        dsize=800:600:0
                               Specifies a display resolution of at most 800x600, or smaller,  in
                               order to keep aspect.

              <r>    Rounds up to make both width and height divisible by <r> (default: 1).

              <aspect>
                     Force an aspect ratio.

       format=fmt=<value>:colormatrix=<value>:...
              Restricts  the  color  space for the next filter without doing any conversion.  Use
              together with the scale filter for a real conversion.

              NOTE:
                 For a list of available formats, see format=fmt=help.

              <fmt>  Format name, e.g. rgb15, bgr24, 420p, etc. (default: don't change).

              <outfmt>
                     Format name that should be substituted for the output. If they do  not  have
                     the same bytes per pixel and chroma subsamplimg, it will fail.

              <colormatrix>
                     Controls the YUV to RGB color space conversion when playing video. There are
                     various standards. Normally, BT.601 should be used for SD video, and  BT.709
                     for HD video. (This is done by default.) Using incorrect color space results
                     in slightly under or over saturated and shifted colors.

                     These options are not always  supported.  Different  video  outputs  provide
                     varying  degrees  of  support.  The  opengl  and  vdpau video output drivers
                     usually offer full support. The xv output can set the  color  space  if  the
                     system  video driver supports it, but not input and output levels. The scale
                     video filter can configure color space and input levels,  but  only  if  the
                     output  format  is  RGB (if the video output driver supports RGB output, you
                     can force this with -vf scale,format=rgba).

                     If this option is set to auto (which is  the  default),  the  video's  color
                     space  flag  will  be  used.  If that flag is unset, the color space will be
                     selected automatically. This is done using a simple heuristic that  attempts
                     to distinguish SD and HD video. If the video is larger than 1279x576 pixels,
                     BT.709 (HD) will be used; otherwise BT.601 (SD) is selected.

                     Available color spaces are:

                     auto   automatic selection (default)

                     bt.601 ITU-R BT.601 (SD)

                     bt.709 ITU-R BT.709 (HD)

                     bt.2020-ncl
                            ITU-R BT.2020 non-constant luminance system

                     bt.2020-cl
                            ITU-R BT.2020 constant luminance system

                     smpte-240m
                            SMPTE-240M

              <colorlevels>
                     YUV color levels used with YUV  to  RGB  conversion.  This  option  is  only
                     necessary  when  playing  broken  files  which  do not follow standard color
                     levels or which are flagged wrong. If the video does not specify  its  color
                     range, it is assumed to be limited range.

                     The same limitations as with <colormatrix> apply.

                     Available color ranges are:

                     auto   automatic selection (normally limited range) (default)

                     limited
                            limited range (16-235 for luma, 16-240 for chroma)

                     full   full range (0-255 for both luma and chroma)

              <primaries>
                        RGB  primaries  the source file was encoded with. Normally this should be
                        set in the file header, but when playing broken or mistagged  files  this
                        can be used to override the setting.

                        This  option  only  affects  video  output  drivers  that  perform  color
                        management, for  example  opengl  with  the  target-prim  or  icc-profile
                        suboptions set.

                        If  this  option  is  set  to  auto  (which  is the default), the video's
                        primaries flag will be used. If that flag is unset, the color space  will
                        be  selected  automatically,  using  the  following  heuristics:  If  the
                        <colormatrix>  is  set  or  determined  as   BT.2020   or   BT.709,   the
                        corresponding  primaries  are  used.  Otherwise,  if  the video height is
                        exactly 576 (PAL), BT.601-625 is used. If it's exactly 480 or 486 (NTSC),
                        BT.601-525  is  used. If the video resolution is anything else, BT.709 is
                        used.

                        Available primaries are:

                        auto   automatic selection (default)

                        bt.601-525
                               ITU-R BT.601 (SD) 525-line systems (NTSC, SMPTE-C)

                        bt.601-625
                               ITU-R BT.601 (SD) 625-line systems (PAL, SECAM)

                        bt.709 ITU-R BT.709 (HD) (same primaries as sRGB)

                        bt.2020
                               ITU-R BT.2020 (UHD)

                        apple  Apple RGB

                        adobe  Adobe RGB (1998)

                        prophoto
                               ProPhoto RGB (ROMM)

                        cie1931
                               CIE 1931 RGB

                     <gamma>
                            Gamma function the source file was encoded with. Normally this should
                            be set in the file header, but when playing broken or mistagged files
                            this can be used to override the setting.

                            This option only affects video  output  drivers  that  perform  color
                            management.

                            If  this option is set to auto (which is the default), the gamma will
                            be set to BT.1886 for YCbCr content, sRGB for RGB content and  Linear
                            for XYZ content.

                            Available gamma functions are:

                            auto   automatic selection (default)

                            bt.1886
                                   ITU-R BT.1886 (approximation of BT.601/BT.709/BT.2020 curve)

                            srgb   IEC 61966-2-4 (sRGB)

                            linear Linear light

                            gamma1.8
                                   Pure power curve (gamma 1.8)

                            gamma2.2
                                   Pure power curve (gamma 2.2)

                            gamma2.8
                                   Pure power curve (gamma 2.8)

                            prophoto
                                   ProPhoto RGB (ROMM) curve

              <stereo-in>
                     Set  the  stereo  mode the video is assumed to be encoded in. Takes the same
                     values as the --video-stereo-mode option.

              <stereo-out>
                     Set the stereo mode the video should be displayed as. Takes the same  values
                     as the --video-stereo-mode option.

              <rotate>
                     Set  the  rotation  the video is assumed to be encoded with in degrees.  The
                     special value -1 uses the input format.

              <dw>, <dh>
                     Set the display size. Note that setting the display size such that the video
                     is scaled in both directions instead of just changing the aspect ratio is an
                     implementation detail, and might change later.

              <dar>  Set the display aspect ratio of the video frame. This is a float, but values
                     such  as  [16:9]  can be passed too ([...] for quoting to prevent the option
                     parser from interpreting the : character).

       noformat[=fmt]
              Restricts the color space for the next filter without doing any conversion.  Unlike
              the format filter, this will allow any color space except the one you specify.

              NOTE:
                 For a list of available formats, see noformat=fmt=help.

              <fmt>  Format name, e.g. rgb15, bgr24, 420p, etc. (default: 420p).

       lavfi=graph[:sws-flags[:o=opts]]
              Filter video using FFmpeg's libavfilter.

              <graph>
                     The  libavfilter graph string. The filter must have a single video input pad
                     and a single video output pad.

                     See https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html for syntax and available filters.

                     WARNING:
                        If you want to use the full filter syntax with this option, you  have  to
                        quote  the  filter  graph in order to prevent mpv's syntax and the filter
                        graph syntax from clashing.

                        Examples

                        -vf lavfi=[gradfun=20:30,vflip]
                               gradfun filter with  nonsense  parameters,  followed  by  a  vflip
                               filter.  (This  demonstrates how libavfilter takes a graph and not
                               just a single filter.) The filter graph string is  quoted  with  [
                               and  ].  This requires no additional quoting or escaping with some
                               shells (like bash), while others (like zsh) require  additional  "
                               quotes around the option string.

                        '--vf=lavfi="gradfun=20:30,vflip"'
                               Same  as  before,  but  uses  quoting that should be safe with all
                               shells. The outer ' quotes make  sure  that  the  shell  does  not
                               remove the " quotes needed by mpv.

                        '--vf=lavfi=graph="gradfun=radius=30:strength=20,vflip"'
                               Same as before, but uses named parameters for everything.

              <sws-flags>
                     If  libavfilter  inserts  filters  for  pixel format conversion, this option
                     gives the flags which should be passed to libswscale. This option is numeric
                     and takes a bit-wise combination of SWS_ flags.

                     See http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libswscale/swscale.h.

              <o>    Set AVFilterGraph options. These should be documented by FFmpeg.

                        Example

                        '--vf=lavfi=yadif:o="threads=2,thread_type=slice"'
                               forces a specific threading configuration.

       eq[=gamma:contrast:brightness:saturation:rg:gg:bg:weight]
              Software  equalizer  that  uses  lookup tables (slow), allowing gamma correction in
              addition to simple brightness and contrast adjustment. The parameters are given  as
              floating point values.

              <0.1-10>
                     initial gamma value (default: 1.0)

              <-2-2> initial contrast, where negative values result in a negative image (default:
                     1.0)

              <-1-1> initial brightness (default: 0.0)

              <0-3>  initial saturation (default: 1.0)

              <0.1-10>
                     gamma value for the red component (default: 1.0)

              <0.1-10>
                     gamma value for the green component (default: 1.0)

              <0.1-10>
                     gamma value for the blue component (default: 1.0)

              <0-1>  The weight parameter can be used to reduce the effect of a high gamma  value
                     on  bright  image  areas, e.g. keep them from getting overamplified and just
                     plain white. A value of 0.0 turns the gamma  correction  all  the  way  down
                     while 1.0 leaves it at its full strength (default: 1.0).

       pullup[=jl:jr:jt:jb:sb:mp]
              Pulldown   reversal   (inverse   telecine)   filter,   capable  of  handling  mixed
              hard-telecine, 24000/1001 fps progressive, and 30000/1001 fps progressive  content.
              The  pullup  filter  makes  use  of  future  context in making its decisions. It is
              stateless in the sense that it does not lock onto  a  pattern  to  follow,  but  it
              instead  looks  forward  to  the  following fields in order to identify matches and
              rebuild progressive frames.

              jl, jr, jt, and jb
                     These options set the amount of "junk" to ignore at the  left,  right,  top,
                     and  bottom of the image, respectively. Left/right are in units of 8 pixels,
                     while top/bottom are in units of 2 lines. The default is 8  pixels  on  each
                     side.

              sb (strict breaks)
                     Setting  this  option  to  1 will reduce the chances of pullup generating an
                     occasional mismatched frame, but it may also cause an  excessive  number  of
                     frames  to  be dropped during high motion sequences.  Conversely, setting it
                     to -1 will make pullup match fields more easily. This may help processing of
                     video  where there is slight blurring between the fields, but may also cause
                     there to be interlaced frames in the output.

              mp (metric plane)
                     This option may be set to u or v to use a chroma plane instead of  the  luma
                     plane  for  doing  pullup's  computations. This may improve accuracy on very
                     clean source material, but more likely will decrease accuracy, especially if
                     there  is  chroma  noise  (rainbow  effect) or any grayscale video. The main
                     purpose of setting mp to a chroma plane is  to  reduce  CPU  load  and  make
                     pullup usable in realtime on slow machines.

       yadif=[mode:interlaced-only]
              Yet another deinterlacing filter

              <mode>

                     frame  Output 1 frame for each frame.

                     field  Output 1 frame for each field.

                     frame-nospatial
                            Like frame but skips spatial interlacing check.

                     field-nospatial
                            Like field but skips spatial interlacing check.

              <interlaced-only>

                     no     Deinterlace all frames (default).

                     yes    Only  deinterlace frames marked as interlaced (default if this filter
                            is inserted via deinterlace property).

              This filter, is automatically inserted when using the d key (or any other key  that
              toggles  the deinterlace property or when using the --deinterlace switch), assuming
              the video output does not have native deinterlacing support.

              If you just want to set the default mode, put this  filter  and  its  options  into
              --vf-defaults instead, and enable deinterlacing with d or --deinterlace.

              Also  note  that  the  d  key  is stupid enough to insert a deinterlacer twice when
              inserting yadif with --vf, so using the above methods is recommended.

       sub=[=bottom-margin:top-margin]
              Moves subtitle rendering to an arbitrary  point  in  the  filter  chain,  or  force
              subtitle  rendering  in  the  video  filter  as  opposed  to using video output OSD
              support.

              <bottom-margin>
                     Adds a black band at the bottom of the frame. The SSA/ASS renderer can place
                     subtitles there (with --sub-use-margins).

              <top-margin>
                     Black band on the top for toptitles  (with --sub-use-margins).

                 Examples

                 --vf=sub,eq
                        Moves  sub  rendering  before  the eq filter. This will put both subtitle
                        colors and video under the influence of the video equalizer settings.

       stereo3d[=in:out]
              Stereo3d converts between different stereoscopic image formats.

              <in>   Stereoscopic image format of input. Possible values:

                     sbsl or side_by_side_left_first
                            side by side parallel (left eye left, right eye right)

                     sbsr or side_by_side_right_first
                            side by side crosseye (right eye left, left eye right)

                     abl or above_below_left_first
                            above-below (left eye above, right eye below)

                     abr or above_below_right_first
                            above-below (right eye above, left eye below)

                     ab2l or above_below_half_height_left_first
                            above-below with half height resolution (left eye  above,  right  eye
                            below)

                     ab2r or above_below_half_height_right_first
                            above-below  with  half  height resolution (right eye above, left eye
                            below)

              <out>  Stereoscopic image format of output.  Possible  values  are  all  the  input
                     formats as well as:

                     arcg or anaglyph_red_cyan_gray
                            anaglyph  red/cyan gray (red filter on left eye, cyan filter on right
                            eye)

                     arch or anaglyph_red_cyan_half_color
                            anaglyph red/cyan half colored (red filter on left eye,  cyan  filter
                            on right eye)

                     arcc or anaglyph_red_cyan_color
                            anaglyph red/cyan color (red filter on left eye, cyan filter on right
                            eye)

                     arcd or anaglyph_red_cyan_dubois
                            anaglyph red/cyan color optimized with the  least-squares  projection
                            of Dubois (red filter on left eye, cyan filter on right eye)

                     agmg or anaglyph_green_magenta_gray
                            anaglyph green/magenta gray (green filter on left eye, magenta filter
                            on right eye)

                     agmh or anaglyph_green_magenta_half_color
                            anaglyph green/magenta  half  colored  (green  filter  on  left  eye,
                            magenta filter on right eye)

                     agmc or anaglyph_green_magenta_color
                            anaglyph  green/magenta  colored  (green  filter on left eye, magenta
                            filter on right eye)

                     aybg or anaglyph_yellow_blue_gray
                            anaglyph yellow/blue gray (yellow filter on left eye, blue filter  on
                            right eye)

                     aybh or anaglyph_yellow_blue_half_color
                            anaglyph  yellow/blue  half  colored (yellow filter on left eye, blue
                            filter on right eye)

                     aybc or anaglyph_yellow_blue_color
                            anaglyph yellow/blue colored (yellow filter on left eye, blue  filter
                            on right eye)

                     irl or interleave_rows_left_first
                            Interleaved rows (left eye has top row, right eye starts on next row)

                     irr or interleave_rows_right_first
                            Interleaved rows (right eye has top row, left eye starts on next row)

                     ml or mono_left
                            mono output (left eye only)

                     mr or mono_right
                            mono output (right eye only)

       gradfun[=strength[:radius|:size=<size>]]
              Fix the banding artifacts that are sometimes introduced into nearly flat regions by
              truncation to 8-bit color depth. Interpolates the gradients that  should  go  where
              the bands are, and dithers them.

              <strength>
                     Maximum  amount  by  which  the  filter  will change any one pixel. Also the
                     threshold for detecting nearly flat regions (default: 1.5).

              <radius>
                     Neighborhood to fit the  gradient  to.  Larger  radius  makes  for  smoother
                     gradients,  but also prevents the filter from modifying pixels near detailed
                     regions (default: disabled).

              <size> size of the filter in percent of the image diagonal size. This  is  used  to
                     calculate the final radius size (default: 1).

       dlopen=dll[:a0[:a1[:a2[:a3]]]]
              Loads  an  external  library  to  filter  the  image.  The library interface is the
              vf_dlopen interface specified using libmpcodecs/vf_dlopen.h.

              WARNING:
                 This filter is deprecated.

              dll=<library>
                     Specify the library to load. This may require a full  file  system  path  in
                     some cases. This argument is required.

              a0=<string>
                     Specify the first parameter to pass to the library.

              a1=<string>
                     Specify the second parameter to pass to the library.

              a2=<string>
                     Specify the third parameter to pass to the library.

              a3=<string>
                     Specify the fourth parameter to pass to the library.

       vapoursynth=file:buffered-frames:concurrent-frames
              Loads  a  VapourSynth  filter script. This is intended for streamed processing: mpv
              actually provides a source filter, instead of  using  a  native  VapourSynth  video
              source.  The  mpv  source  will answer frame requests only within a small window of
              frames (the size of this window is controlled with the buffered-frames  parameter),
              and  requests  outside  of that will return errors. As such, you can't use the full
              power of VapourSynth, but you can use certain filters.

              If you just want to play video generated by a  VapourSynth  (i.e.  using  a  native
              VapourSynth  video  source), it's better to use vspipe and a FIFO to feed the video
              to mpv. The same applies if the filter script requires  random  frame  access  (see
              buffered-frames parameter).

              This  filter  is  experimental.  If it turns out that it works well and is used, it
              will be ported to libavfilter. Otherwise, it will be just removed.

              file   Filename of the script source. Currently, this is always  a  python  script.
                     The  variable  video_in  is  set to the mpv video source, and it is expected
                     that the script reads video from it. (Otherwise, mpv will decode  no  video,
                     and  the video packet queue will overflow, eventually leading to audio being
                     stopped.) The script is also expected to pass through timestamps  using  the
                     _DurationNum and _DurationDen frame properties.

                        Example:

                            import vapoursynth as vs
                            core = vs.get_core()
                            core.std.AddBorders(video_in, 10, 10, 20, 20).set_output()

                     WARNING:
                        The  script  will  be  reloaded  on every seek. This is done to reset the
                        filter properly on discontinuities.

              buffered-frames
                     Maximum number of decoded video frames that should be  buffered  before  the
                     filter  (default: 4). This specifies the maximum number of frames the script
                     can requests backwards. E.g.  if  buffered-frames=5,  and  the  script  just
                     requested  frame  15,  it  can  still  request  frame 10, but frame 9 is not
                     available anymore. If it requests frame 30, mpv will decode 15 more  frames,
                     and keep only frames 25-30.

                     The  actual  number  of  buffered  frames  also  depends on the value of the
                     concurrent-frames option. Currently, both option values  are  multiplied  to
                     get the final buffer size.

                     (Normally,  VapourSynth  source  filters must provide random access, but mpv
                     was made for playback, and does not provide frame-exact random  access.  The
                     way  this  video  filter  works  is a compromise to make simple filters work
                     anyway.)

              concurrent-frames
                     Number of frames  that  should  be  requested  in  parallel.  The  level  of
                     concurrency  depends  on  the filter and how quickly mpv can decode video to
                     feed the filter. This value should probably be proportional to the number of
                     cores  on your machine. Most time, making it higher than the number of cores
                     can actually make it slower.

                     By default, this uses the special value auto, which sets the option  to  the
                     number of detected logical CPU cores.

              The following variables are defined by mpv:

              video_in
                     The  mpv video source as vapoursynth clip. Note that this has no length set,
                     which confuses many filters. Using Trim on the clip with a high dummy length
                     can turn it into a finite clip.

              video_in_dw, video_in_dh
                     Display  size  of  the  video. Can be different from video size if the video
                     does not use square pixels (e.g. DVD).

              container_fps
                     FPS value as reported by file headers. This value can be wrong or completely
                     broken  (e.g.  0  or  NaN).  Even if the value is correct, if another filter
                     changes the real FPS (by dropping or inserting frames), the  value  of  this
                     variable  might  not  be  useful.  Note  that  the --fps command line option
                     overrides this value.

                     Useful for some filters which insist on having a FPS.

              display_fps
                     Refresh rate of the current display. Note that this value can be 0.

       vapoursynth-lazy
              The same as vapoursynth, but doesn't load Python scripts. Instead, a custom backend
              using  Lua and the raw VapourSynth API is used. The syntax is completely different,
              and absolutely no convenience features  are  provided.  There's  no  type  checking
              either, and you can trigger crashes.

                 Example:

                     video_out = invoke("morpho", "Open", {clip = video_in})

              The  special  variable video_in is the mpv video source, while the special variable
              video_out is used to read video from. The 1st argument is the plugin (queried  with
              getPluginByNs),  the  2nd  is the filter name, and the 3rd argument is a table with
              the arguments. Positional  arguments  are  not  supported.  The  types  must  match
              exactly.  Since  Lua is terrible and can't distinguish integers and floats, integer
              arguments must be prefixed with i_, in which case the prefix  is  removed  and  the
              argument  is  cast  to an integer. Should the argument's name start with i_, you're
              out of luck.

              Clips (VSNodeRef) are passed as  light  userdata,  so  trying  to  pass  any  other
              userdata type will result in hard crashes.

       vavpp  VA-AP-API  video  post  processing.  Works  with  --vo=vaapi  and --vo=opengl only.
              Currently deinterlaces. This filter is automatically inserted if  deinterlacing  is
              requested  (either  using  the  d  key,  by  default  mapped  to  the command cycle
              deinterlace, or the --deinterlace option).

              deint=<method>
                     Select the deinterlacing algorithm.

                     no     Don't perform deinterlacing.

                     first-field
                            Show only first field (going by --field-dominance).

                     bob    bob deinterlacing (default).

                     weave, motion-adaptive, motion-compensated
                            Advanced  deinterlacing  algorithms.  Whether  these  actually   work
                            depends  on  the  GPU hardware, the GPU drivers, driver bugs, and mpv
                            bugs.

              <interlaced-only>

                     no     Deinterlace all frames.

                     yes    Only deinterlace frames marked as interlaced (default).

       vdpaupp
              VDPAU video post processing. Works  with  --vo=vdpau  and  --vo=opengl  only.  This
              filter  is automatically inserted if deinterlacing is requested (either using the d
              key, by default mapped to the  command  cycle  deinterlace,  or  the  --deinterlace
              option).  When  enabling  deinterlacing,  it  is  always  preferred  over  software
              deinterlacer filters if the vdpau VO is used,  and  also  if  opengl  is  used  and
              hardware decoding was activated at least once (i.e. vdpau was loaded).

              sharpen=<-1-1>
                     For positive values, apply a sharpening algorithm to the video, for negative
                     values a blurring algorithm (default: 0).

              denoise=<0-1>
                     Apply a noise reduction  algorithm  to  the  video  (default:  0;  no  noise
                     reduction).

              deint=<yes|no>
                     Whether  deinterlacing is enabled (default: no). If enabled, it will use the
                     mode selected with deint-mode.

              deint-mode=<first-field|bob|temporal|temporal-spatial>
                     Select  deinterlacing  mode  (default:   temporal).    All   modes   respect
                     --field-dominance.

                     Note  that  there's currently a mechanism that allows the vdpau VO to change
                     the deint-mode of auto-inserted vdpaupp filters. To  avoid  confusion,  it's
                     recommended not to use the --vo=vdpau suboptions related to filtering.

                     first-field
                            Show only first field.

                     bob    Bob deinterlacing.

                     temporal
                            Motion-adaptive  temporal  deinterlacing. May lead to A/V desync with
                            slow video hardware and/or high resolution.

                     temporal-spatial
                            Motion-adaptive  temporal  deinterlacing  with  edge-guided   spatial
                            interpolation. Needs fast video hardware.

              chroma-deint
                     Makes temporal deinterlacers operate both on luma and chroma (default).  Use
                     no-chroma-deint to solely use luma  and  speed  up  advanced  deinterlacing.
                     Useful with slow video memory.

              pullup Try to apply inverse telecine, needs motion adaptive temporal deinterlacing.

              interlaced-only=<yes|no>
                     If yes (default), only deinterlace frames marked as interlaced.

              hqscaling=<0-9>

                     0      Use default VDPAU scaling (default).

                     1-9    Apply high quality VDPAU scaling (needs capable hardware).

       vdpaurb
              VDPAU  video  read  back.  Works with --vo=vdpau and --vo=opengl only.  This filter
              will read back frames decoded by  VDPAU  so  that  other  filters,  which  are  not
              normally  compatible  with  VDPAU,  can  be  used like normal.  This filter must be
              specified before vdpaupp in the filter chain if vdpaupp is used.

       buffer=<num>
              Buffer <num> frames in the filter chain. This filter is  probably  pretty  useless,
              except  for  debugging.  (Note  that  this  won't help smoothing out latencies with
              decoding, because the filter will never output a frame if the  buffer  isn't  full,
              except on EOF.)

ENCODING

       You can encode files from one format/codec to another using this facility.

       --o=<filename>
              Enables encoding mode and specifies the output file name.

       --of=<format>
              Specifies  the output format (overrides autodetection by the file name extension of
              the file specified by -o). This can be a comma separated list of  possible  formats
              to try. See --of=help for a full list of supported formats.

       --ofopts=<options>
              Specifies  the output format options for libavformat.  See --ofopts=help for a full
              list of supported options.

              Options are managed in lists. There are a few commands to manage the options list.

              --ofopts-add=<options1[,options2,...]>
                     Appends the options given as arguments to the options list.

              --ofopts-pre=<options1[,options2,...]>
                     Prepends the options given as arguments to the options list.

              --ofopts-del=<index1[,index2,...]>
                     Deletes the options at the given indexes. Index numbers start at 0, negative
                     numbers address the end of the list (-1 is the last).

              --ofopts-clr
                     Completely empties the options list.

       --ofps=<float value>
              Specifies  the  output  format time base (default: 24000). Low values like 25 limit
              video fps by dropping frames.

       --oautofps
              Sets the output format time base to the guessed  frame  rate  of  the  input  video
              (simulates  MEncoder  behavior,  useful for AVI; may cause frame drops).  Note that
              not all codecs and not all formats support VFR encoding, and  some  which  do  have
              bugs  when  a  target  bitrate is specified - use --ofps or --oautofps to force CFR
              encoding in these cases.

       --omaxfps=<float value>
              Specifies the minimum distance of adjacent frames (default: 0, which means  unset).
              Content of lower frame rate is not readjusted to this frame rate; content of higher
              frame rate is decimated to this frame rate.

       --oharddup
              If set, the frame rate given by --ofps is attained not by skipping time codes,  but
              by duplicating frames (constant frame rate mode).

       --oneverdrop
              If  set,  frames  are never dropped. Instead, time codes of video are readjusted to
              always increase. This may cause AV desync, though;  to  work  around  this,  use  a
              high-fps time base using --ofps and absolutely avoid --oautofps.

       --oac=<codec>
              Specifies  the  output  audio codec. This can be a comma separated list of possible
              codecs to try. See --oac=help for a full list of supported codecs.

       --oaoffset=<value>
              Shifts audio data by the given time (in seconds) by adding/removing samples at  the
              start.

       --oacopts=<options>
              Specifies  the output audio codec options for libavcodec.  See --oacopts=help for a
              full list of supported options.

                 Example

                 --oac=libmp3lame --oacopts=b=128000
                        selects 128 kbps MP3 encoding.

              Options are managed in lists. There are a few commands to manage the options list.

              --oacopts-add=<options1[,options2,...]>
                     Appends the options given as arguments to the options list.

              --oacopts-pre=<options1[,options2,...]>
                     Prepends the options given as arguments to the options list.

              --oacopts-del=<index1[,index2,...]>
                     Deletes the options at the given indexes. Index numbers start at 0, negative
                     numbers address the end of the list (-1 is the last).

              --oacopts-clr
                     Completely empties the options list.

       --oafirst
              Force  the  audio  stream  to become the first stream in the output. By default the
              order is unspecified.

       --ovc=<codec>
              Specifies the output video codec. This can be a comma separated  list  of  possible
              codecs to try. See --ovc=help for a full list of supported codecs.

       --ovoffset=<value>
              Shifts video data by the given time (in seconds) by shifting the pts values.

       --ovcopts <options>
              Specifies  the output video codec options for libavcodec.  See --ovcopts=help for a
              full list of supported options.

                 Examples

                 "--ovc=mpeg4 --ovcopts=qscale=5"
                        selects constant quantizer scale 5 for MPEG-4 encoding.

                 "--ovc=libx264 --ovcopts=crf=23"
                        selects VBR quality factor 23 for H.264 encoding.

              Options are managed in lists. There are a few commands to manage the options list.

              --ovcopts-add=<options1[,options2,...]>
                     Appends the options given as arguments to the options list.

              --ovcopts-pre=<options1[,options2,...]>
                     Prepends the options given as arguments to the options list.

              --ovcopts-del=<index1[,index2,...]>
                     Deletes the options at the given indexes. Index numbers start at 0, negative
                     numbers address the end of the list (-1 is the last).

              --ovcopts-clr
                     Completely empties the options list.

       --ovfirst
              Force  the  video  stream  to become the first stream in the output. By default the
              order is unspecified.

       --ocopyts
              Copies input pts to the output  video  (not  supported  by  some  output  container
              formats, e.g. AVI). Discontinuities are still fixed.  By default, audio pts are set
              to playback time and video pts are synchronized to match audio pts, as some  output
              formats do not support anything else.

       --orawts
              Copies  input  pts  to  the  output  video  (not supported by some output container
              formats, e.g. AVI). In this mode, discontinuities are not fixed  and  all  pts  are
              passed  through  as-is.  Never  seek  backwards or use multiple input files in this
              mode!

       --no-ometadata
              Turns off copying of metadata from input files to output files when encoding (which
              is enabled by default).

COMMAND INTERFACE

       The  mpv core can be controlled with commands and properties. A number of ways to interact
       with the player use  them:  key  bindings  (input.conf),  OSD  (showing  information  with
       properties), JSON IPC, the client API (libmpv), and the classic slave mode.

   input.conf
       The input.conf file consists of a list of key bindings, for example:

          s screenshot      # take a screenshot with the s key
          LEFT seek 15      # map the left-arrow key to seeking forward by 15 seconds

       Each  line  maps  a  key  to an input command. Keys are specified with their literal value
       (upper case if combined with Shift), or a name for special keys. For example,  a  maps  to
       the a key without shift, and A maps to a with shift.

       The    file    is    located   in   the   mpv   configuration   directory   (normally   at
       ~/.config/mpv/input.conf depending on platform). The default bindings are defined here:

          https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/etc/input.conf

       A list of special keys can be obtained with
          mpv --input-keylist

       In general, keys can be combined with Shift, Ctrl and Alt:

          ctrl+q quit

       mpv can be started in input test mode,  which  displays  key  bindings  and  the  commands
       they're bound to on the OSD, instead of executing the commands:

          mpv --input-test --force-window --idle

       (Only  closing the window will make mpv exit, pressing normal keys will merely display the
       binding, even if mapped to quit.)

   General Input Command Syntax
       [Shift+][Ctrl+][Alt+][Meta+]<key> [{<section>}] [<prefixes>]  <command>  (<argument>)*  [;
       <command>]

       Note that by default, the right Alt key can be used to create special characters, and thus
       does not register as a modifier. The option --no-input-right-alt-gr changes this behavior.

       Newlines always start a new  binding.  #  starts  a  comment  (outside  of  quoted  string
       arguments). To bind commands to the # key, SHARP can be used.

       <key>  is either the literal character the key produces (ASCII or Unicode character), or a
       symbolic name (as printed by --input-keylist).

       <section> (braced with { and }) is the input section for this command.

       Arguments are separated by whitespace. This applies even to string  arguments.   For  this
       reason,  string  arguments should be quoted with ". Inside quotes, C-style escaping can be
       used.

       You can bind multiple commands to one key. For example:
       a show-text "command 1" ; show-text "command 2"

       It's also possible to bind a command to a sequence of keys:
       a-b-c show-text "command run after a, b, c have been pressed"

       (This is not shown in the general command syntax.)

       If a or a-b or b are already bound, this will run the first command that matches, and  the
       multi-key  command  will  never  be called. Intermediate keys can be remapped to ignore in
       order to avoid this issue. The maximum number of (non-modifier) keys for  combinations  is
       currently 4.

   List of Input Commands
       ignore Use  this  to  "block"  keys  that  should  be  unbound, and do nothing. Useful for
              disabling   default    bindings,    without    disabling    all    bindings    with
              --no-input-default-bindings.

       seek <seconds> [relative|absolute|absolute-percent|relative-percent|exact|keyframes]
              Change the playback position. By default, seeks by a relative amount of seconds.

              The second argument consists of flags controlling the seek mode:

              relative (default)
                     Seek relative to current position (a negative value seeks backwards).

              absolute
                     Seek to a given time.

              absolute-percent
                     Seek to a given percent position.

              relative-percent
                     Seek relative to current position in percent.

              keyframes
                     Always restart playback at keyframe boundaries (fast).

              exact  Always do exact/hr/precise seeks (slow).

              Multiple flags can be combined, e.g.: absolute+keyframes.

              By  default,  keyframes  is used for relative seeks, and exact is used for absolute
              seeks.

              Before mpv 0.9, the keyframes and exact flags had to be  passed  as  3rd  parameter
              (essentially using a space instead of +). The 3rd parameter is still parsed, but is
              considered deprecated.

       revert-seek [mode]
              Undoes the seek command, and some other commands that seek (but not necessarily all
              of  them).  Calling this command once will jump to the playback position before the
              seek. Calling it a second time undoes the revert-seek  command  itself.  This  only
              works within a single file.

              The first argument is optional, and can change the behavior:

              mark   Mark  the  current  time  position. The next normal revert-seek command will
                     seek back to this point, no matter how many seeks happened since last time.

              Using it without any arguments gives you the default behavior.

       frame-step
              Play one frame, then pause. Does nothing with audio-only playback.

       frame-back-step
              Go back by one frame, then pause. Note that this can be very slow (it tries  to  be
              precise,  not fast), and sometimes fails to behave as expected. How well this works
              depends   on   whether   precise   seeking   works   correctly   (e.g.    see   the
              --hr-seek-demuxer-offset option). Video filters or other video post-processing that
              modifies timing of frames (e.g. deinterlacing) should usually work, but might  make
              backstepping    silently    behave    incorrectly    in    corner    cases.   Using
              --hr-seek-framedrop=no should help, although it might make precise seeking slower.

              This does not work with audio-only playback.

       set <property> <value>
              Set the given property to the given value.

       add <property> [<value>]
              Add the given value to the property. On overflow or underflow, clamp  the  property
              to the maximum. If <value> is omitted, assume 1.

       cycle <property> [up|down]
              Cycle the given property. up and down set the cycle direction. On overflow, set the
              property back to the minimum, on underflow set it to the maximum. If up or down  is
              omitted, assume up.

       multiply <property> <factor>
              Multiplies the value of a property with the numeric factor.

       screenshot [subtitles|video|window|- [single|each-frame]]
              Take a screenshot.

              First argument:

              <subtitles> (default)
                     Save  the video image, in its original resolution, and with subtitles.  Some
                     video outputs may  still  include  the  OSD  in  the  output  under  certain
                     circumstances.

              <video>
                     Like  subtitles,  but typically without OSD or subtitles. The exact behavior
                     depends on the selected video output.

              <window>
                     Save the contents  of  the  mpv  window.  Typically  scaled,  with  OSD  and
                     subtitles.  The  exact behavior depends on the selected video output, and if
                     no support is available, this will act like video.

              <each-frame>
                     Take a screenshot each frame.  Issue  this  command  again  to  stop  taking
                     screenshots.  Note  that  you  should disable frame-dropping when using this
                     mode - or you might receive duplicate images  in  cases  when  a  frame  was
                     dropped.   This   flag   can   be   combined  with  the  other  flags,  e.g.
                     video+each-frame.

       screenshot-to-file <filename> [subtitles|video|window]
              Take a screenshot and save it to a given file. The  format  of  the  file  will  be
              guessed  by  the  extension (and --screenshot-format is ignored - the behavior when
              the extension is missing or unknown is arbitrary).

              The second argument is like the first argument to screenshot.

              If the file already exists, it's overwritten.

              Like all input command parameters, the filename is subject to property expansion as
              described in Property Expansion.

       playlist-next [weak|force]
              Go to the next entry on the playlist.

              weak (default)
                     If the last file on the playlist is currently played, do nothing.

              force  Terminate playback if there are no more files on the playlist.

       playlist-prev [weak|force]
              Go to the previous entry on the playlist.

              weak (default)
                     If the first file on the playlist is currently played, do nothing.

              force  Terminate playback if the first file is being played.

       loadfile <file> [replace|append|append-play [options]]
              Load the given file and play it.

              Second argument:

              <replace> (default)
                     Stop playback of the current file, and play the new file immediately.

              <append>
                     Append the file to the playlist.

              <append-play>
                     Append  the  file,  and  if  nothing  is  currently playing, start playback.
                     (Always starts with the added file, even  if  the  playlist  was  not  empty
                     before running this command.)

              The  third  argument  is a list of options and values which should be set while the
              file is playing. It is of the form opt1=value1,opt2=value2,...  Not all options can
              be changed this way. Some options require a restart of the player.

       loadlist <playlist> [replace|append]
              Load the given playlist file (like --playlist).

       playlist-clear
              Clear the playlist, except the currently played file.

       playlist-remove current|<index>
              Remove  the  playlist entry at the given index. Index values start counting with 0.
              The special value current removes the current entry. Note that removing the current
              entry also stops playback and starts playing the next entry.

       playlist-move <index1> <index2>
              Move  the playlist entry at index1, so that it takes the place of the entry index2.
              (Paradoxically, the moved playlist entry will not have the index value index2 after
              moving  if index1 was lower than index2, because index2 refers to the target entry,
              not the index the entry will have after moving.)

       playlist-shuffle
              Shuffle the playlist. This is similar to what is done on  start  if  the  --shuffle
              option is used.

       run command arg1 arg2 ...
              Run  the  given  command.  Unlike  in  MPlayer/mplayer2 and earlier versions of mpv
              (0.2.x and older), this doesn't  call  the  shell.  Instead,  the  command  is  run
              directly,  with  each argument passed separately. Each argument is expanded like in
              Property Expansion. Note that there is a static limit of (as  of  this  writing)  9
              arguments (this limit could be raised on demand).

              The  program  is  run  in  a  detached  way.  mpv doesn't wait until the command is
              completed, but continues playback right after spawning it.

              To get the old behavior, use /bin/sh and -c as the first two arguments.

                 Example

                        run "/bin/sh" "-c" "echo ${title} > /tmp/playing"

                        This is not a  particularly  good  example,  because  it  doesn't  handle
                        escaping,  and  a  specially  prepared  file  might  allow an attacker to
                        execute arbitrary shell commands. It is  recommended  to  write  a  small
                        shell script, and call that with run.

       quit [<code>]
              Exit the player. If an argument is given, it's used as process exit code.

       quit-watch-later [<code>]
              Exit player, and store current playback position. Playing that file later will seek
              to the previous position on start. The (optional) argument is  exactly  as  in  the
              quit command.

       sub-add <file> [<flags> [<title> [<lang>]]]
              Load the given subtitle file. It is selected as current subtitle after loading.

              The flags args is one of the following values:

              <select>
                 Select the subtitle immediately.

              <auto>
                 Don't  select  the  subtitle.  (Or  in  some special situations, let the default
                 stream selection mechanism decide.)

              <cached>
                 Select the subtitle. If a subtitle with the same  filename  was  already  added,
                 that  one  is  selected,  instead  of loading a duplicate entry.  (In this case,
                 title/language are ignored, and if the was changed since it  was  loaded,  these
                 changes won't be reflected.)

              The title argument sets the track title in the UI.

              The  lang argument sets the track language, and can also influence stream selection
              with flags set to auto.

       sub-remove [<id>]
              Remove the given subtitle track. If the id argument is missing, remove the  current
              track. (Works on external subtitle files only.)

       sub-reload [<id>]
              Reload the given subtitle tracks. If the id argument is missing, reload the current
              track. (Works on external subtitle files only.)

              This works by unloading and re-adding the subtitle track.

       sub-step <skip>
              Change subtitle timing such, that the subtitle event after the next <skip> subtitle
              events is displayed. <skip> can be negative to step backwards.

       sub-seek <skip>
              Seek  to  the next (skip set to 1) or the previous (skip set to -1) subtitle.  This
              is similar to sub-step, except that it seeks video and audio instead  of  adjusting
              the subtitle delay.

              For  embedded  subtitles (like with Matroska), this works only with subtitle events
              that have already been displayed, or are within a short prefetch range.

       osd [<level>]
              Toggle OSD level. If <level> is specified, set the OSD mode  (see  --osd-level  for
              valid values).

       print-text <string>
              Print text to stdout. The string can contain properties (see Property Expansion).

       show-text <string> [<duration>|- [<level>]]
              Show  text  on  the  OSD.  The string can contain properties, which are expanded as
              described in Property Expansion. This can be used to show playback time,  filename,
              and so on.

              <duration>
                     The  time  in ms to show the message for. By default, it uses the same value
                     as --osd-duration.

              <level>
                     The minimum OSD level to show the text at (see --osd-level).

       show-progress
              Show the progress bar, the elapsed time and the total duration of the file  on  the
              OSD.

       write-watch-later-config
              Write the resume config file that the quit-watch-later command writes, but continue
              playback normally.

       stop   Stop playback and clear playlist. With default settings, this is  essentially  like
              quit.  Useful  for  the client API: playback can be stopped without terminating the
              player.

       mouse <x> <y> [<button> [single|double]]
              Send a mouse event with given coordinate (<x>, <y>).

              Second argument:

              <button>
                     The button number of clicked mouse button. This should be one of  0-19.   If
                     <button> is omitted, only the position will be updated.

              Third argument:

              <single> (default)
                     The mouse event represents regular single click.

              <double>
                     The mouse event represents double-click.

       keypress <key_name>
              Send  a  key  event  through  mpv's  input handler, triggering whatever behavior is
              configured to that key. key_name uses the input.conf naming  scheme  for  keys  and
              modifiers.  Useful  for  the client API: key events can be sent to libmpv to handle
              internally.

       keydown <key_name>
              Similar to keypress, but sets the KEYDOWN flag so that if the key  is  bound  to  a
              repeatable  command,  it  will be run repeatedly with mpv's key repeat timing until
              the keyup command is called.

       keyup [<key_name>]
              Set the KEYUP flag,  stopping  any  repeated  behavior  that  had  been  triggered.
              key_name is optional. If key_name is not given or is an empty string, KEYUP will be
              set on all keys. Otherwise, KEYUP  will  only  be  set  on  the  key  specified  by
              key_name.

       audio-add <file> [<flags> [<title> [<lang>]]]
              Load the given audio file. See sub-add command.

       audio-remove [<id>]
              Remove the given audio track. See sub-remove command.

       audio-reload [<id>]
              Reload the given audio tracks. See sub-reload command.

       rescan-external-files [<mode>]
              Rescan  external  files  according  to the current --sub-auto and --audio-file-auto
              settings. This can be used to auto-load external files after the file was loaded.

              The mode argument is one of the following:

              <reselect> (default)
                     Select the default audio  and  subtitle  streams,  which  typically  selects
                     external  files with highest preference. (The implementation is not perfect,
                     and could be improved on request.)

              <keep-selection>
                     Do not change current track selections.

   Input Commands that are Possibly Subject to Change
       af set|add|toggle|del|clr filter1=params,filter2,...
              Change audio filter chain. See vf command.

       vf set|add|toggle|del|clr filter1=params,filter2,...
              Change video filter chain.

              The first argument decides what happens:

              set    Overwrite the previous filter chain with the new one.

              add    Append the new filter chain to the previous one.

              toggle Check if the given filter (with the exact  parameters)  is  already  in  the
                     video  chain. If yes, remove the filter. If no, add the filter.  (If several
                     filters are passed to the command, this is done for each filter.)

              del    Remove the given filters from the video chain. Unlike in  the  other  cases,
                     the  second  parameter  is a comma separated list of filter names or integer
                     indexes. 0 would denote the first filter. Negative indexes  start  from  the
                     last filter, and -1 denotes the last filter.

              clr    Remove  all  filters.  Note  that like the other sub-commands, this does not
                     control automatically inserted filters.

              You can assign labels to filter by prefixing them with  @name:  (where  name  is  a
              user-chosen  arbitrary  identifier). Labels can be used to refer to filters by name
              in all of the filter chain modification commands.  For add, using an  already  used
              label will replace the existing filter.

              The  vf  command  shows the list of requested filters on the OSD after changing the
              filter  chain.  This  is  roughly  equivalent  to  show-text   ${vf}.   Note   that
              auto-inserted  filters  for  format conversion are not shown on the list, only what
              was requested by the user.

              Normally,  the  commands  will  check  whether  the  video   chain   is   recreated
              successfully,  and will undo the operation on failure. If the command is run before
              video is configured (can happen if the command is run immediately after  opening  a
              file  and  before  a  video frame is decoded), this check can't be run. Then it can
              happen that creating the video chain fails.

                 Example for input.conf

                 • a vf set flip turn video upside-down on the a key

                 • b vf set "" remove all video filters on bc vf toggle lavfi=gradfun toggle debanding on c

       cycle-values ["!reverse"] <property> <value1> <value2> ...
              Cycle through a list of values. Each invocation of the command will set  the  given
              property  to  the next value in the list. The command maintains an internal counter
              which value to pick next, and which is initially 0. It is reset to 0 once the  last
              value is reached.

              The  internal  counter is associated using the property name and the value list. If
              multiple commands (bound to different keys) use the same name and value list,  they
              will share the internal counter.

              The  special  argument  !reverse  can  be  used to cycle the value list in reverse.
              Compared with a command that just lists the value in  reverse,  this  command  will
              actually  share  the internal counter with the forward-cycling key binding (as long
              as the rest of the arguments are the same).

              Note that there is a static limit of (as of this writing) 10 arguments (this  limit
              could be raised on demand).

       enable-section <section> [flags]
              Enable all key bindings in the named input section.

              The  enabled  input  sections  form a stack. Bindings in sections on the top of the
              stack are preferred to lower sections. This command puts the section on top of  the
              stack.  If  the  section  was  already  on  the  stack,  it  is  implicitly removed
              beforehand. (A section cannot be on the stack more than once.)

              The flags parameter can be a combination (separated by +) of the following flags:

              <exclusive>
                     All sections enabled before the newly enabled section  are  disabled.   They
                     will be re-enabled as soon as all exclusive sections above them are removed.
                     In other words, the new section shadows all previous sections.

              <allow-hide-cursor>
                     This feature can't be used through the public API.

              <allow-vo-dragging>
                     Same.

       disable-section <section>
              Disable the named input section. Undoes enable-section.

       define-section <section> <contents> [default|forced]
              Create a named input section, or replace the contents of an already existing  input
              section. The contents parameter uses the same syntax as the input.conf file (except
              that using the section syntax in it is not allowed), including the need to separate
              bindings with a newline character.

              If the contents parameter is an empty string, the section is removed.

              The section with the name default is the normal input section.

              In  general,  input sections have to be enabled with the enable-section command, or
              they are ignored.

              The last parameter has the following meaning:

              <default> (also used if parameter omitted)
                     Use a key binding defined by this section only if the  user  hasn't  already
                     bound this key to a command.

              <forced>
                     Always  bind  a  key.  (The input section that was made active most recently
                     wins if there are ambiguities.)

       overlay-add <id> <x> <y> <file> <offset> <fmt> <w> <h> <stride>
              Add an OSD overlay sourced from raw data. This might  be  useful  for  scripts  and
              applications  controlling mpv, and which want to display things on top of the video
              window.

              Overlays are usually displayed  in  screen  resolution,  but  with  some  VOs,  the
              resolution  is  reduced  to  that  of  the  video's. You can read the osd-width and
              osd-height properties. At least with --vo-xv and anamorphic video  (such  as  DVD),
              osd-par  should  be  read  as  well,  and the overlay should be aspect-compensated.
              (Future  directions:  maybe  mpv  should  take  care  of  some  of   these   things
              automatically, but it's hard to tell where to draw the line.)

              id  is  an  integer between 0 and 63 identifying the overlay element. The ID can be
              used to add multiple overlay parts, update a part by using  this  command  with  an
              already  existing  ID,  or to remove a part with overlay-remove. Using a previously
              unused ID will add a new overlay, while reusing  an  ID  will  update  it.  (Future
              directions:  there  should  be  something  to  ensure different programs wanting to
              create overlays don't conflict with each others, should that ever be needed.)

              x and y specify the position where the OSD should be displayed.

              file specifies the file the raw image data is read from. It can be either a numeric
              UNIX  file  descriptor  prefixed  with @ (e.g. @4), or a filename. The file will be
              mapped into memory with mmap(). Some VOs will pass the mapped pointer  directly  to
              display  APIs  (e.g. opengl or vdpau), so no actual copying is involved. Truncating
              the source file while the overlay is active will crash the  player.  You  shouldn't
              change  the  data  while  the  overlay  is  active, because the data is essentially
              accessed at random points. Instead,  call  overlay-add  again  (preferably  with  a
              different memory region to prevent tearing).

              It  is  also  possible  to  pass  a  raw memory address for use as bitmap memory by
              passing a memory address as integer prefixed with  an  &  character.   Passing  the
              wrong  thing  here  will  crash  the player. This mode might be useful for use with
              libmpv. The offset parameter is simply added  to  the  memory  address  (since  mpv
              0.8.0, ignored before).

              offset  is  the  byte  offset  of the first pixel in the source file.  (The current
              implementation always mmap's the whole file from position  0  to  the  end  of  the
              image,  so  large  offsets  should  be  avoided.  Before  mpv 0.8.0, the offset was
              actually passed directly to mmap, but it was changed to make using it easier.)

              fmt is a string identifying the image format. Currently, only bgra is defined. This
              format  has 4 bytes per pixels, with 8 bits per component.  The least significant 8
              bits are blue, and the most significant 8 bits are alpha  (in  little  endian,  the
              components are B-G-R-A, with B as first byte). This uses premultiplied alpha: every
              color component is already multiplied with the  alpha  component.  This  means  the
              numeric  value  of  each component is equal to or smaller than the alpha component.
              (Violating this rule will lead to different results  with  different  VOs:  numeric
              overflows  resulting from blending broken alpha values is considered something that
              shouldn't happen, and  consequently  implementations  don't  ensure  that  you  get
              predictable behavior in this case.)

              w,  h,  and  stride  specify the size of the overlay. w is the visible width of the
              overlay, while stride gives the width in bytes in memory. In the simple  case,  and
              with the bgra format, stride==4*w.  In general, the total amount of memory accessed
              is stride * h.  (Technically, the minimum size would be stride * (h - 1) + w  *  4,
              but for simplicity, the player will access all stride * h bytes.)

                 Warning

                        When  updating  the  overlay,  you  should prepare a second shared memory
                        region (e.g. make use of the offset parameter) and add this  as  overlay,
                        instead  of  reusing the same memory every time. Otherwise, you might get
                        the equivalent of tearing, when your application and mpv  write/read  the
                        buffer  at  the  same  time.  Also, keep in mind that mpv might access an
                        overlay's memory at random times whenever it feels the need to do so, for
                        example when redrawing the screen.

       overlay-remove <id>
              Remove  an  overlay  added  with  overlay-add  and  the same ID. Does nothing if no
              overlay with this ID exists.

       script-message <arg1> <arg2> ...
              Send a message to all clients, and pass it the following list of  arguments.   What
              this  message  means,  how  many arguments it takes, and what the arguments mean is
              fully up to the receiver and the sender. Every client receives the message,  so  be
              careful about name clashes (or use script_message_to).

       script-message-to <target> <arg1> <arg2> ...
              Same  as script_message, but send it only to the client named <target>. Each client
              (scripts etc.) has a unique name. For example, Lua scripts can get their  name  via
              mp.get_script_name().

       script-binding <name>
              Invoke  a  script-provided  key  binding.  This  can  be used to remap key bindings
              provided by external Lua scripts.

              The argument is the name of the binding.

              It can optionally be prefixed with the name of the script, using  /  as  separator,
              e.g. script_binding scriptname/bindingname.

              For  completeness,  here  is  how  this command works internally. The details could
              change any time. On any matching key event, script_message_to or script_message  is
              called (depending on whether the script name is included), where the first argument
              is the string key-binding, the second argument is the name of the binding, and  the
              third  argument  is  the key state as string. The key state consists of a number of
              letters. The first letter is one of d (key was pressed down), u (was  released),  r
              (key  is  still  down,  and  was  repeated;  only if key repeat is enabled for this
              binding), p (key was pressed; happens if up/down  can't  be  tracked).  The  second
              letter  whether  the  event originates from the mouse, either m (mouse button) or -
              (something else).

       ab-loop
              Cycle through A-B loop states.  The  first  command  will  set  the  A  point  (the
              ab-loop-a property); the second the B point, and the third will clear both points.

       vo-cmdline <args>
              Reset  the  sub-option  of  the  current VO. Currently works with opengl (including
              opengl-hq). The argument is the sub-option string usually passed to the VO  on  the
              command  line.  Not  all  sub-options can be set, but those which can will be reset
              even if they don't appear in the  argument.   This  command  might  be  changed  or
              removed in the future.

       drop-buffers
              Drop   audio/video/demuxer  buffers,  and  restart  from  fresh.  Might  help  with
              unseekable streams that are going out of sync.  This command might  be  changed  or
              removed in the future.

       screenshot-raw [subtitles|video|window]
              Return  a  screenshot  in memory. This can be used only through the client API. The
              MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP returned by this command has the w, h,  stride  fields  set  to
              obvious  contents.  A  format  field  is  set  to  bgr0  by default. This format is
              organized as B8G8R8X8 (where B is the LSB).  The  contents  of  the  padding  X  is
              undefined.  The  data  field is of type MPV_FORMAT_BYTE_ARRAY with the actual image
              data. The image is freed as soon as the result node is freed.

       Undocumented commands: tv-last-channel (TV/DVB only), ao-reload (experimental/internal).

   Hooks
       Hooks are synchronous events between player core and a script or similar. This applies  to
       client  API  (including  the Lua scripting interface). Normally, events are supposed to be
       asynchronous, and the hook API provides an awkward and obscure way to handle  events  that
       require  stricter  coordination. There are no API stability guarantees made. Not following
       the protocol exactly can make the player freeze randomly.  Basically,  nobody  should  use
       this API.

       There  are two special commands involved. Also, the client must listen for client messages
       (MPV_EVENT_CLIENT_MESSAGE in the C API).

       hook-add <hook-name> <id> <priority>
              Subscribe to the hook identified by the first  argument  (basically,  the  name  of
              event).  The  id  argument  is an arbitrary integer chosen by the user. priority is
              used to sort all hook  handlers  globally  across  all  clients.  Each  client  can
              register  multiple  hook  handlers  (even for the same hook-name). Once the hook is
              registered, it cannot be unregistered.

              When a specific event happens, all registered handlers are run serially.  This uses
              a  protocol  every  client  has to follow explicitly. When a hook handler is run, a
              client message (MPV_EVENT_CLIENT_MESSAGE) is sent to the  client  which  registered
              the hook. This message has the following arguments:

              1. the string hook_run

              2. the  id  argument  the  hook  was registered with as string (this can be used to
                 correctly handle multiple hooks registered by the same client, as long as the id
                 argument is unique in the client)

              3. something  undefined,  used  by  the  hook  mechanism  to  track  hook execution
                 (currently, it's the hook-name, but this might change without warning)

              Upon receiving this message, the client can handle the event. While doing this, the
              player core will still react to requests, but playback will typically be stopped.

              When  the client is done, it must continue the core's hook execution by running the
              hook-ack command.

       hook-ack <string>
              Run the next hook in the global chain of hooks. The argument is the 3rd argument of
              the client message that starts hook execution for the current client.

       The following hooks are currently defined:

       on_load
              Called when a file is to be opened, before anything is actually done.  For example,
              you could read and write the stream-open-filename property to redirect  an  URL  to
              something  else  (consider support for streaming sites which rarely give the user a
              direct media URL), or you could set per-file options with by setting  the  property
              file-local-options/<option name>. The player will wait until all hooks are run.

       on_unload
              Run  before closing a file, and before actually uninitializing everything. It's not
              possible to resume playback in this state.

   Input Command Prefixes
       These prefixes are placed between key name and the actual command. Multiple  prefixes  can
       be specified. They are separated by whitespace.

       osd-auto (default)
              Use the default behavior for this command.

       no-osd Do not use any OSD for this command.

       osd-bar
              If  possible,  show  a  bar with this command. Seek commands will show the progress
              bar, property changing commands may show the newly set value.

       osd-msg
              If possible, show an OSD message with this command. Seek command show  the  current
              playback time, property changing commands show the newly set value as text.

       osd-msg-bar
              Combine osd-bar and osd-msg.

       raw    Do not expand properties in string arguments. (Like "${property-name}".)

       expand-properties (default)
              All string arguments are expanded as described in Property Expansion.

       repeatable
              For  some commands, keeping a key pressed doesn't run the command repeatedly.  This
              prefix forces enabling key repeat in any case.

       All of the osd prefixes are still overridden by the global --osd-level settings.

   Input Sections
       Input sections group a  set  of  bindings,  and  enable  or  disable  them  at  once.   In
       input.conf,  each key binding is assigned to an input section, rather than actually having
       explicit text sections.

       Also see enable_section and disable_section commands.

       Predefined bindings:

       default
              Bindings without input section are implicitly  assigned  to  this  section.  It  is
              enabled by default during normal playback.

       encode Section  which  is  active  in  encoding  mode.  It is enabled exclusively, so that
              bindings in the default sections are ignored.

   Properties
       Properties are used to set mpv options during runtime, or to query arbitrary  information.
       They  can be manipulated with the set/add/cycle commands, and retrieved with show-text, or
       anything else that uses property expansion. (See Property Expansion.)

       The property name is annotated with RW to  indicate  whether  the  property  is  generally
       writable.

       If an option is referenced, the property will normally take/return exactly the same values
       as the option. In these cases, properties are merely a way to change an option at runtime.

   Property list
       osd-level (RW)
              See --osd-level.

       osd-scale (RW)
              OSD font size multiplier, see --osd-scale.

       loop (RW)
              See --loop.

       loop-file (RW)
              See --loop-file (uses yes/no).

       speed (RW)
              See --speed.

       audio-speed-correction, video-speed-correction
              Factor multiplied with speed at which the player attempts to play the file. Usually
              it's exactly 1. (Display sync mode will make this useful.)

              OSD formatting will display it in the form of +1.23456%, with the number being (raw
              - 1) * 100 for the given raw property value.

       display-sync-active
              Return whether --video-sync=display is actually active.

       filename
              Currently played file, with path stripped. If this is an URL, try to  undo  percent
              encoding  as  well.  (The  result  is not necessarily correct, but looks better for
              display purposes. Use the path property to get an unmodified filename.)

       file-size
              Length in bytes of the source file/stream. (This is the same as ${stream-end}.  For
              ordered chapters and such, the size of the currently played segment is returned.)

       estimated-frame-count
              Total number of frames in current file.

              NOTE:
                 This is only an estimate. (It's computed from two unreliable quantities: fps and
                 stream length.)

       estimated-frame-number
              Number of current frame in current stream.

              NOTE:
                 This is only an estimate. (It's computed from two unreliable quantities: fps and
                 possibly rounded timestamps.)

       path   Full path of the currently played file. Usually this is exactly the same string you
              pass on the mpv command line or the loadfile command, even if it's a relative path.
              If you expect an absolute path, you will have to determine it yourself, for example
              by using the working-directory property.

       media-title
              If the currently played file has a title tag, use that.

              Otherwise, if the media type is DVD, return the volume ID of DVD.

              Otherwise, return the filename property.

       file-format
              Symbolic name of the file format. In some cases, this is a comma-separated list  of
              format  names, e.g. mp4 is mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 (the list may grow in the future
              for any format).

       demuxer
              Name of the current demuxer. (This is useless.)

       stream-path
              Filename (full path) of the stream layer filename. (This is  probably  useless.  It
              looks like this can be different from path only when using e.g. ordered chapters.)

       stream-pos (RW)
              Raw byte position in source stream.

       stream-end
              Raw end position in bytes in source stream.

       duration
              Duration  of  the current file in seconds. If the duration is unknown, the property
              is unavailable. Note that the file duration is not always exactly known, so this is
              an estimate.

              This  replaces the length property, which was deprecated after the mpv 0.9 release.
              (The semantics are the same.)

       avsync Last A/V synchronization difference. Unavailable if audio or video is disabled.

       total-avsync-change
              Total A-V sync correction done. Unavailable if audio or video is disabled.

       drop-frame-count
              Video frames dropped by decoder, because video is too far behind audio (when  using
              --framedrop=decoder).  Sometimes, this may be incremented in other situations, e.g.
              when video packets are damaged, or the decoder  doesn't  follow  the  usual  rules.
              Unavailable if video is disabled.

       vo-drop-frame-count
              Frames dropped by VO (when using --framedrop=vo).

       mistimed-frame-count
              Number  of  video frames that were not timed correctly in display-sync mode for the
              sake of keeping A/V sync. This does not include  external  circumstances,  such  as
              video  rendering being too slow or the graphics driver somehow skipping a vsync. It
              does not include rounding errors either  (which  can  happen  especially  with  bad
              source  timestamps). For example, using the display-desync mode should never change
              this value from 0.

       vsync-ratio
              For how many vsyncs  a  frame  is  displayed  on  average.  This  is  available  if
              display-sync  is  active  only. For 30 FPS video on a 60 Hz screen, this will be 2.
              This is the moving average of what actually has been scheduled, so 24 FPS on 60  Hz
              will never remain exactly on 2.5, but jitter depending on the last frame displayed.

       vo-delayed-frame-count
              Estimated  number  of  frames delayed due to external circumstances in display-sync
              mode. Note that in general, mpv has to guess that this is happening, and the  guess
              can be inaccurate.

       percent-pos (RW)
              Position  in  current  file  (0-100).  The  advantage  over  using  this instead of
              calculating it out of other properties is that it properly falls back to estimating
              the playback position from the byte position, if the file duration is not known.

       time-pos (RW)
              Position in current file in seconds.

       time-start
              Deprecated.  Always  returns 0. Before mpv 0.14, this used to return the start time
              of the file (could affect e.g. transport streams). See --rebase-start-time option.

       time-remaining
              Remaining length of the file in seconds. Note that the file duration is not  always
              exactly known, so this is an estimate.

       playtime-remaining
              time-remaining scaled by the current speed.

       playback-time (RW)
              Position  in  current  file in seconds. Unlike time-pos, the time is clamped to the
              range of the file. (Inaccurate file durations etc. could make it go out  of  range.
              Also helpful when the user attempts to seek outside of the file, as the seek target
              time is considered the current position during seeking.)

       chapter (RW)
              Current chapter number. The number of the first chapter is 0.

       edition (RW)
              Current MKV edition number. Setting this property to a different value will restart
              playback. The number of the first edition is 0.

       disc-titles
              Number of BD/DVD titles.

              This has a number of sub-properties. Replace N with the 0-based edition index.

              disc-titles/count
                     Number of titles.

              disc-titles/id
                     Title ID as integer. Currently, this is the same as the title index.

              disc-titles/length
                     Length  in  seconds.  Can  be unavailable in a number of cases (currently it
                     works for libdvdnav only).

              When querying the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or  with  Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_ARRAY
                     MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP (for each edition)
                         "id"                MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                         "length"            MPV_FORMAT_DOUBLE

       disc-title-list
              List of BD/DVD titles.

       disc-title (RW)
              Current  BD/DVD  title  number.  Writing  works  only  for dvdnav:// and bd:// (and
              aliases for these).

       chapters
              Number of chapters.

       editions
              Number of MKV editions.

       edition-list
              List of editions, current entry  marked.  Currently,  the  raw  property  value  is
              useless.

              This has a number of sub-properties. Replace N with the 0-based edition index.

              edition-list/count
                     Number  of  editions.  If  there  are  no editions, this can be 0 or 1 (1 if
                     there's a useless dummy edition).

              edition-list/N/id
                     Edition ID as integer. Use this to set  the  edition  property.   Currently,
                     this is the same as the edition index.

              edition-list/N/default
                     yes if this is the default edition, no otherwise.

              edition-list/N/title
                     Edition title as stored in the file. Not always available.

              When  querying  the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or with Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_ARRAY
                     MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP (for each edition)
                         "id"                MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                         "title"             MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "default"           MPV_FORMAT_FLAG

       ab-loop-a, ab-loop-b (RW)
              Set/get A-B loop points.  See  corresponding  options  and  ab_loop  command.   The
              special value no on either of these properties disables looping.

       angle (RW)
              Current DVD angle.

       metadata
              Metadata key/value pairs.

              If the property is accessed with Lua's mp.get_property_native, this returns a table
              with metadata keys mapping to metadata values. If it is accessed  with  the  client
              API, this returns a MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP, with tag keys mapping to tag values.

              For  OSD,  it  returns  a formatted list. Trying to retrieve this property as a raw
              string doesn't work.

              This has a number of sub-properties:

              metadata/by-key/<key>
                     Value of metadata entry <key>.

              metadata/list/count
                     Number of metadata entries.

              metadata/list/N/key
                     Key name of the Nth metadata entry. (The first entry is 0).

              metadata/list/N/value
                     Value of the Nth metadata entry.

              metadata/<key>
                     Old version  of  metadata/by-key/<key>.  Use  is  discouraged,  because  the
                     metadata key string could conflict with other sub-properties.

              The layout of this property might be subject to change. Suggestions are welcome how
              exactly this property should work.

              When querying the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or  with  Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP
                     (key and string value for each metadata entry)

       filtered-metadata
              Like  metadata,  but includes only fields listed in the --display-tags option. This
              is the same set of tags that is printed to the terminal.

       chapter-metadata
              Metadata of current chapter. Works similar to metadata property. It also allows the
              same access methods (using sub-properties).

              Per-chapter metadata is very rare. Usually, only the chapter name (title) is set.

              For accessing other information, like chapter start, see the chapter-list property.

       vf-metadata/<filter-label>
              Metadata  added  by  video  filters.  Accessed  by  the  filter label, which if not
              explicitly specified using the @filter-label: syntax, will be <filter-name>NN.

              Works similar to metadata property.  It  allows  the  same  access  methods  (using
              sub-properties).

              An  example  of  these  kind  of  metadata  are  the  cropping  parameters added by
              --vf=lavfi=cropdetect.

       af-metadata/<filter-label>
              Equivalent to vf-metadata/<filter-label>, but for audio filters.

       pause (RW)
              Pause status. This is usually yes or no. See --pause.

       idle   Return yes if no file is loaded, but the player is staying around  because  of  the
              --idle option.

       core-idle
              Return  yes  if  the  playback  core is paused, otherwise no. This can be different
              pause in special situations, such as when the  player  pauses  itself  due  to  low
              network cache.

              This also returns yes if playback is restarting or if nothing is playing at all. In
              other words, it's only no if there's actually video playing.  (Behavior  since  mpv
              0.7.0.)

       cache  Network cache fill state (0-100.0).

       cache-size (RW)
              Network  cache size in KB. This is similar to --cache. This allows to set the cache
              size at runtime. Currently, it's not possible to enable or  disable  the  cache  at
              runtime using this property, just to resize an existing cache.

              This does not include the backbuffer size (changed after mpv 0.10.0).

              Note  that  this  tries to keep the cache contents as far as possible. To make this
              easier, the cache resizing code will allocate the new cache while the old cache  is
              still allocated.

              Don't use this when playing DVD or Blu-ray.

       cache-free (R)
              Total free cache size in KB.

       cache-used (R)
              Total used cache size in KB.

       cache-idle (R)
              Returns  yes  if  the  cache  is  idle,  which means the cache is filled as much as
              possible, and is currently not reading more data.

       demuxer-cache-duration
              Approximate duration of video buffered in the demuxer, in  seconds.  The  guess  is
              very  unreliable, and often the property will not be available at all, even if data
              is buffered.

       demuxer-cache-time
              Approximate  time  of  video  buffered  in  the  demuxer,  in  seconds.   Same   as
              demuxer-cache-duration but returns the last timestamp of buffered data in demuxer.

       demuxer-cache-idle
              Returns  yes if the demuxer is idle, which means the demuxer cache is filled to the
              requested amount, and is currently not reading more data.

       paused-for-cache
              Returns yes when playback is paused because of waiting for the cache.

       cache-buffering-state
              Return the percentage (0-100) of the  cache  fill  status  until  the  player  will
              unpause (related to paused-for-cache).

       eof-reached
              Returns yes if end of playback was reached, no otherwise. Note that this is usually
              interesting only if  --keep-open  is  enabled,  since  otherwise  the  player  will
              immediately play the next file (or exit or enter idle mode), and in these cases the
              eof-reached property will logically be cleared immediately after it's set.

       seeking
              Returns yes if the player is currently seeking,  or  otherwise  trying  to  restart
              playback.  (It's  possible  that  it  returns  yes  while a file is loaded, or when
              switching ordered chapter segments. This is because the  same  underlying  code  is
              used for seeking and resyncing.)

       hr-seek (RW)
              See --hr-seek.

       volume (RW)
              Current volume (see --volume for details).

       mute (RW)
              Current mute status (yes/no).

       audio-delay (RW)
              See --audio-delay.

       audio-codec
              Audio codec selected for decoding.

       audio-codec-name
              Audio codec.

       audio-params
              Audio format as output by the audio decoder.  This has a number of sub-properties:

              audio-params/format
                     The  sample  format  as  string.  This  uses the same names as used in other
                     places of mpv.

              audio-params/samplerate
                     Samplerate.

              audio-params/channels
                     The channel layout as a string. This is similar to what the --audio-channels
                     accepts.

              audio-params/hr-channels
                     As  channels,  but instead of the possibly cryptic actual layout sent to the
                     audio device, return a hopefully more human readable  form.   (Usually  only
                     audio-out-params/hr-channels makes sense.)

              audio-params/channel-count
                     Number  of audio channels. This is redundant to the channels field described
                     above.

              When querying the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or  with  Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP
                     "format"            MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                     "samplerate"        MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                     "channels"          MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                     "channel-count"     MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                     "hr-channels"       MPV_FORMAT_STRING

       audio-out-params
              Same as audio-params, but the format of the data written to the audio API.

       aid (RW)
              Current audio track (similar to --aid).

       audio (RW)
              Alias for aid.

       balance (RW)
              Audio  channel  balance.  (The  implementation  of  this feature is rather odd.  It
              doesn't change the volumes of each channel, but instead sets up a pan matrix to mix
              the left and right channels.)

       fullscreen (RW)
              See --fullscreen.

       deinterlace (RW)
              See --deinterlace.

       field-dominance (RW)
              See --field-dominance

       colormatrix (R)
              Redirects to video-params/colormatrix. This parameter (as well as similar ones) can
              be overridden with the format video filter.

       colormatrix-input-range (R)
              See colormatrix.

       video-output-levels (RW)
              See --video-output-levels,

       colormatrix-primaries (R)
              See colormatrix.

       ontop (RW)
              See --ontop.

       border (RW)
              See --border.

       on-all-workspaces (RW)
              See --on-all-workspaces. Unsetting may not work on all WMs.

       framedrop (RW)
              See --framedrop.

       gamma (RW)
              See --gamma.

       brightness (RW)
              See --brightness.

       contrast (RW)
              See --contrast.

       saturation (RW)
              See --saturation.

       hue (RW)
              See --hue.

       hwdec (RW)
              Reflects the --hwdec option.

              Writing to it  may  change  the  currently  used  hardware  decoder,  if  possible.
              (Internally,  the  player  may reinitialize the decoder, and will perform a seek to
              refresh the video properly.) You can  watch  the  other  hwdec  properties  to  see
              whether this was successful.

              Unlike  in mpv 0.9.x and before, this does not return the currently active hardware
              decoder.

       hwdec-active
              Return yes or no, depending on whether any type of hardware decoding is actually in
              use.

       hwdec-detected
              If  software  decoding  is  active,  this  returns  the  hardware  decoder  in use.
              Otherwise, it returns either no, or if applicable, the  currently  loaded  hardware
              decoding  API. This is known only once the VO has opened (and possibly later). With
              some VOs (like opengl), this is never known in advance, but only when  the  decoder
              attempted  to  create  the  hw  decoder  successfully. Also, hw decoders with -copy
              suffix will return no while no video  is  being  decoded.  All  this  reflects  how
              detecting hw decoders are detected and used internally in mpv.

       panscan (RW)
              See --panscan.

       video-format
              Video format as string.

       video-codec
              Video codec selected for decoding.

       width, height
              Video  size.  This  uses the size of the video as decoded, or if no video frame has
              been decoded yet, the (possibly incorrect) container indicated size.

       video-params
              Video parameters, as output  by  the  decoder  (with  overrides  like  aspect  etc.
              applied). This has a number of sub-properties:

              video-params/pixelformat
                     The pixel format as string. This uses the same names as used in other places
                     of mpv.

              video-params/average-bpp
                     Average bits-per-pixel as integer. Subsampled planar formats use a different
                     resolution,  which  is  the  reason  this  value  can  sometimes  be  odd or
                     confusing. Can be unavailable with some formats.

              video-params/plane-depth
                     Bit depth for each color component as integer.  This  is  only  exposed  for
                     planar or single-component formats, and is unavailable for other formats.

              video-params/w, video-params/h
                     Video size as integers, with no aspect correction applied.

              video-params/dw, video-params/dh
                     Video size as integers, scaled for correct aspect ratio.

              video-params/aspect
                     Display aspect ratio as float.

              video-params/par
                     Pixel aspect ratio.

              video-params/colormatrix
                     The colormatrix in use as string. (Exact values subject to change.)

              video-params/colorlevels
                     The colorlevels as string. (Exact values subject to change.)

              video-params/primaries
                     The primaries in use as string. (Exact values subject to change.)

              video-params/gamma
                     The gamma function in use as string. (Exact values subject to change.)

              video-params/chroma-location
                     Chroma location as string. (Exact values subject to change.)

              video-params/rotate
                     Intended display rotation in degrees (clockwise).

              video-params/stereo-in
                     Source file stereo 3D mode. (See --video-stereo-mode option.)

              When  querying  the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or with Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP
                     "pixelformat"       MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                     "w"                 MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                     "h"                 MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                     "dw"                MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                     "dh"                MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                     "aspect"            MPV_FORMAT_DOUBLE
                     "par"               MPV_FORMAT_DOUBLE
                     "colormatrix"       MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                     "colorlevels"       MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                     "primaries"         MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                     "chroma-location"   MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                     "rotate"            MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                     "stereo-in"         MPV_FORMAT_STRING

       dwidth, dheight
              Video display size. This is the video size after filters and  aspect  scaling  have
              been  applied.  The actual video window size can still be different from this, e.g.
              if the user resized the video window manually.

              These have the same values as video-out-params/dw and video-out-params/dh.

       video-out-params
              Same as video-params, but after video filters have been applied. If  there  are  no
              video  filters in use, this will contain the same values as video-params. Note that
              this is still not necessarily what the video window uses, since the user can change
              the  window  size,  and  all  real  VOs do their own scaling independently from the
              filter chain.

              Has the same sub-properties as video-params.

       video-frame-info
              Approximate information of the current frame. Note that if any of these are used on
              OSD,  the  information  might be off by a few frames due to OSD redrawing and frame
              display being somewhat disconnected, and you  might  have  to  pause  and  force  a
              redraw.

              Sub-properties:

              video-frame-info/picture-type    video-frame-info/interlaced   video-frame-info/tff
              video-frame-info/repeat

       fps    Container FPS. This can easily contain bogus values. For  videos  that  use  modern
              container formats or video codecs, this will often be incorrect.

       estimated-vf-fps
              Estimated/measured  FPS  of the video filter chain output. (If no filters are used,
              this corresponds to decoder output.) This uses the average of  the  10  past  frame
              durations to calculate the FPS. It will be inaccurate if frame-dropping is involved
              (such as when framedrop is explicitly enabled, or  after  precise  seeking).  Files
              with imprecise timestamps (such as Matroska) might lead to unstable results.

       window-scale (RW)
              Window  size  multiplier.  Setting  this will resize the video window to the values
              contained in dwidth and dheight multiplied with the value set with  this  property.
              Setting  1  will  resize to original video size (or to be exact, the size the video
              filters output). 2 will set the double size, 0.5 halves the size.

       window-minimized
              Return whether the video window is minimized or not.

       display-names
              Names of the displays that the mpv window covers. On  X11,  these  are  the  xrandr
              names (LVDS1, HDMI1, DP1, VGA1, etc.).

       display-fps (RW)
              The  refresh  rate of the current display. Currently, this is the lowest FPS of any
              display covered by the video, as retrieved by  the  underlying  system  APIs  (e.g.
              xrandr  on  X11). It is not the measured FPS. It's not necessarily available on all
              platforms. Note that any of the listed facts may change any time without a warning.

       estimated-display-fps
              Only available if display-sync  mode  (as  selected  by  --video-sync)  is  active.
              Returns  the  actual  rate  at  which  display refreshes seem to occur, measured by
              system time.

       vsync-jitter
              Estimated deviation factor of the vsync duration.

       video-aspect (RW)
              Video aspect, see --video-aspect.

       osd-width, osd-height
              Last known OSD width (can be 0). This is needed if you want to use the  overlay_add
              command.  It  gives you the actual OSD size, which can be different from the window
              size in some cases.

       osd-par
              Last known OSD display pixel aspect (can be 0).

       vid (RW)
              Current video track (similar to --vid).

       video (RW)
              Alias for vid.

       video-align-x, video-align-y (RW)
              See --video-align-x and --video-align-y.

       video-pan-x, video-pan-y (RW)
              See --video-pan-x and --video-pan-y.

       video-zoom (RW)
              See --video-zoom.

       video-unscaled (W)
              See --video-unscaled.

       program (W)
              Switch TS program (write-only).

       sid (RW)
              Current subtitle track (similar to --sid).

       secondary-sid (RW)
              Secondary subtitle track (see --secondary-sid).

       sub (RW)
              Alias for sid.

       sub-delay (RW)
              See --sub-delay.

       sub-pos (RW)
              See --sub-pos.

       sub-visibility (RW)
              See --sub-visibility.

       sub-forced-only (RW)
              See --sub-forced-only.

       sub-scale (RW)
              Subtitle font size multiplier.

       ass-force-margins (RW)
              See --ass-force-margins.

       sub-use-margins (RW)
              See --sub-use-margins.

       ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat (RW)
              See --ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat.

       ass-style-override (RW)
              See --ass-style-override.

       stream-capture (RW)
              A filename, see --stream-capture. Setting this will start capture using  the  given
              filename. Setting it to an empty string will stop it.

       tv-brightness, tv-contrast, tv-saturation, tv-hue (RW)
              TV stuff.

       playlist-pos (RW)
              Current  position  on  playlist.  The  first entry is on position 0. Writing to the
              property will restart playback at the written entry.

       playlist-count
              Number of total playlist entries.

       playlist
              Playlist, current entry marked. Currently, the raw property value is useless.

              This has a number of sub-properties. Replace N  with  the  0-based  playlist  entry
              index.

              playlist/count
                     Number of playlist entries (same as playlist-count).

              playlist/N/filename
                     Filename of the Nth entry.

              playlist/N/current, playlist/N/playing
                     yes if this entry is currently playing (or being loaded).  Unavailable or no
                     otherwise. When changing  files,  current  and  playing  can  be  different,
                     because  the  currently playing file hasn't been unloaded yet; in this case,
                     current refers to the new selection. (Since mpv 0.7.0.)

              playlist/N/title
                     Name of the Nth entry. Only available if the  playlist  file  contains  such
                     fields, and only if mpv's parser supports it for the given playlist format.

              When  querying  the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or with Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_ARRAY
                     MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP (for each playlist entry)
                         "filename"  MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "current"   MPV_FORMAT_FLAG (might be missing; since mpv 0.7.0)
                         "playing"   MPV_FORMAT_FLAG (same)
                         "title"     MPV_FORMAT_STRING (optional)

       track-list
              List of audio/video/sub tracks, current entry marked. Currently, the  raw  property
              value is useless.

              This has a number of sub-properties. Replace N with the 0-based track index.

              track-list/count
                     Total number of tracks.

              track-list/N/id
                     The  ID  as  it's used for -sid/--aid/--vid. This is unique within tracks of
                     the same type (sub/audio/video), but otherwise not.

              track-list/N/type
                     String describing the media type. One of audio, video, sub.

              track-list/N/src-id
                     Track ID as used in the source file. Not always available.

              track-list/N/title
                     Track title as it is stored in the file. Not always available.

              track-list/N/lang
                     Track language as identified by the file. Not always available.

              track-list/N/audio-channels
                     For audio tracks, the number of audio channels in  the  audio  stream.   Not
                     always accurate (depends on container hints). Not always available.

              track-list/N/albumart
                     yes  if  this  is  a  video  track  that consists of a single picture, no or
                     unavailable otherwise. This  is  used  for  video  tracks  that  are  really
                     attached pictures in audio files.

              track-list/N/default
                     yes if the track has the default flag set in the file, no otherwise.

              track-list/N/forced
                     yes if the track has the forced flag set in the file, no otherwise.

              track-list/N/codec
                     The  codec  name  used  by this track, for example h264. Unavailable in some
                     rare cases.

              track-list/N/external
                     yes if the track is an external file, no otherwise. This is set for separate
                     subtitle files.

              track-list/N/external-filename
                     The filename if the track is from an external file, unavailable otherwise.

              track-list/N/selected
                     yes if the track is currently decoded, no otherwise.

              track-list/N/ff-index
                     The stream index as usually used by the FFmpeg utilities. Note that this can
                     be potentially wrong if a demuxer other than libavformat (--demuxer=lavf) is
                     used.  For  mkv  files,  the  index  will  usually match even if the default
                     (builtin) demuxer is used, but there is no hard guarantee.

              When querying the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or  with  Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_ARRAY
                     MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP (for each track)
                         "id"                MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                         "type"              MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "src-id"            MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                         "title"             MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "lang"              MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "audio-channels"    MPV_FORMAT_INT64
                         "albumart"          MPV_FORMAT_FLAG
                         "default"           MPV_FORMAT_FLAG
                         "forced"            MPV_FORMAT_FLAG
                         "external"          MPV_FORMAT_FLAG
                         "external-filename" MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "codec"             MPV_FORMAT_STRING

       chapter-list
              List  of  chapters,  current  entry  marked.  Currently,  the raw property value is
              useless.

              This has a number of sub-properties. Replace N with the 0-based chapter index.

              chapter-list/count
                     Number of chapters.

              chapter-list/N/title
                     Chapter title as stored in the file. Not always available.

              chapter-list/N/time
                     Chapter start time in seconds as float.

              When querying the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or  with  Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_ARRAY
                     MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP (for each chapter)
                         "title" MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "time"  MPV_FORMAT_DOUBLE

       af (RW)
              See --af and the af command.

       vf (RW)
              See --vf and the vf command.

              When  querying  the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or with Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_ARRAY
                     MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP (for each filter entry)
                         "name"      MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "label"     MPV_FORMAT_STRING [optional]
                         "params"    MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP [optional]
                             "key"   MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                             "value" MPV_FORMAT_STRING

              It's also possible to write the property using this format.

       video-rotate (RW)
              See --video-rotate option.

       seekable
              Return whether it's generally possible to seek in the current file.

       partially-seekable
              Return yes if the current file is considered seekable, but only because  the  cache
              is  active.  This means small relative seeks may be fine, but larger seeks may fail
              anyway. Whether a seek will succeed or not is generally not known in advance.

              If this property returns true, seekable will also return true.

       playback-abort
              Return whether playback is  stopped  or  is  to  be  stopped.  (Useful  in  obscure
              situations  like  during  on_load hook processing, when the user can stop playback,
              but the script has to explicitly end processing.)

       cursor-autohide (RW)
              See --cursor-autohide. Setting this to a new value will always update  the  cursor,
              and reset the internal timer.

       osd-sym-cc
              Inserts  the  current  OSD symbol as opaque OSD control code (cc). This makes sense
              only with the show-text command or options which set  OSD  messages.   The  control
              code is implementation specific and is useless for anything else.

       osd-ass-cc
              ${osd-ass-cc/0}  disables  escaping  ASS  sequences of text in OSD, ${osd-ass-cc/1}
              enables it again. By  default,  ASS  sequences  are  escaped  to  avoid  accidental
              formatting,  and  this property can disable this behavior. Note that the properties
              return an opaque OSD control code, which only makes sense for the show-text command
              or options which set OSD messages.

                 Example

                 • --osd-status-msg='This is ${osd-ass-cc/0}{\\b1}bold text'show-text "This is ${osd-ass-cc/0}{\b1}bold text"

              Any ASS override tags as understood by libass can be used.

              Note that you need to escape the \ character, because the string is processed for C
              escape sequences before passing it to the OSD code.

              A list of tags can be found here: http://docs.aegisub.org/latest/ASS_Tags/

       vo-configured
              Return whether the VO is configured right now. Usually this corresponds to  whether
              the  video window is visible. If the --force-window option is used, this is usually
              always returns yes.

       video-bitrate, audio-bitrate, sub-bitrate
              Bitrate values calculated on the packet level. This works by dividing the bit  size
              of  all  packets  between  two  keyframes by their presentation timestamp distance.
              (This uses the timestamps are stored in the file, so e.g. playback speed  does  not
              influence  the  returned values.) In particular, the video bitrate will update only
              per keyframe, and show the "past" bitrate. To make the property more  UI  friendly,
              updates to these properties are throttled in a certain way.

              The  unit  is  bits  per  second. OSD formatting turns these values in kilobits (or
              megabits, if appropriate), which can be prevented by using the raw property  value,
              e.g. with ${=video-bitrate}.

              Note  that the accuracy of these properties is influenced by a few factors.  If the
              underlying demuxer rewrites the packets on demuxing (done for some  file  formats),
              the  bitrate  might  be  slightly  off.  If  timestamps are bad or jittery (like in
              Matroska), even constant bitrate streams might show fluctuating bitrate.

              How exactly these values are calculated might change in the future.

              In earlier versions of mpv, these properties returned  a  static  (but  bad)  guess
              using a completely different method.

       packet-video-bitrate, packet-audio-bitrate, packet-sub-bitrate
              Old  and  deprecated properties for video-bitrate, audio-bitrate, sub-bitrate. They
              behave exactly the same, but return a value in kilobits. Also, they don't have  any
              OSD formatting, though the same can be achieved with e.g. ${=video-bitrate}.

              These properties shouldn't be used anymore.

       audio-device-list
              Return the list of discovered audio devices. This is mostly for use with the client
              API, and reflects what --audio-device=help with the command line player returns.

              When querying the property with the client API using MPV_FORMAT_NODE, or  with  Lua
              mp.get_property_native, this will return a mpv_node with the following contents:

                 MPV_FORMAT_NODE_ARRAY
                     MPV_FORMAT_NODE_MAP (for each device entry)
                         "name"          MPV_FORMAT_STRING
                         "description"   MPV_FORMAT_STRING

              The  name  is what is to be passed to the --audio-device option (and often a rather
              cryptic audio API-specific ID), while description is human readable free form text.
              The description is an empty string if none was received.

              The special entry with the name set to auto selects the default audio output driver
              and the default device.

              The property can be watched with the property observation mechanism in  the  client
              API and in Lua scripts. (Technically, change notification is enabled the first time
              this property is read.)

       audio-device (RW)
              Set the audio device. This directly reads/writes the --audio-device option, but  on
              write accesses, the audio output will be scheduled for reloading.

              Writing this property while no audio output is active will not automatically enable
              audio.  (This  is  also  true  in  the  case  when  audio  was  disabled   due   to
              reinitialization failure after a previous write access to audio-device.)

              This property also doesn't tell you which audio device is actually in use.

              How these details are handled may change in the future.

       current-vo
              Current video output driver (name as used with --vo).

       current-ao
              Current audio output driver (name as used with --ao).

       audio-out-detected-device
              Return  the  audio  device  selected  by  the  AO driver (only implemented for some
              drivers: currently only coreaudio).

       working-directory
              Return the working directory of the mpv process. Can be useful for JSON IPC  users,
              because the command line player usually works with relative paths.

       protocol-list
              List  of  protocol prefixes potentially recognized by the player. They are returned
              without trailing :// suffix (which is still always required).  In some  cases,  the
              protocol  will  not actually be supported (consider https if ffmpeg is not compiled
              with TLS support).

       mpv-version
              Return the mpv version/copyright string. Depending on how the binary was built,  it
              might contain either a release version, or just a git hash.

       mpv-configuration
              Return the configuration arguments which were passed to the build system (typically
              the way ./waf configure ... was invoked).

       options/<name> (RW)
              Read-only access to value of option  --<name>.  Most  options  can  be  changed  at
              runtime  by  writing to this property. Note that many options require reloading the
              file for changes to take effect. If there is an equivalent property, prefer setting
              the property instead.

       file-local-options/<name>
              Similar  to  options/<name>,  but when setting an option through this property, the
              option is reset to its old value once the current file has stopped playing.  Trying
              to  write  an  option  while  no file is playing (or is being loaded) results in an
              error.

              (Note that if an option is marked as file-local,  even  options/  will  access  the
              local  value, and the old value, which will be restored on end of playback, can not
              be read or written until end of playback.)

       option-info/<name>
              Additional per-option information.

              This has a number of sub-properties. Replace <name> with the name  of  a  top-level
              option.  No  guarantee  of stability is given to any of these sub-properties - they
              may change radically in the feature.

              option-info/<name>/name
                     Returns the name of the option.

              option-info/<name>/type
                     Return the name of the option  type,  like  String  or  Integer.   For  many
                     complex types, this isn't very accurate.

              option-info/<name>/set-from-commandline
                     Return  yes  if  the option was set from the mpv command line, no otherwise.
                     What this is set to if the  option  is  e.g.  changed  at  runtime  is  left
                     undefined (meaning it could change in the future).

              option-info/<name>/set-locally
                     Return  yes  if  the  option  was  set  per-file.  This  is  the  case  with
                     automatically loaded profiles, file-dir configs, and other cases.  It  means
                     the  option  value  will be restored to the value before playback start when
                     playback ends.

              option-info/<name>/default-value
                     The default value of the option. May not always be available.

              option-info/<name>/min, option-info/<name>/max
                     Integer minimum and maximum values allowed for the option. Only available if
                     the  options  are  numeric, and the minimum/maximum has been set internally.
                     It's also possible that only one of these is set.

              option-info/<name>/choices
                     If the option is a choice option, the possible  choices.  Choices  that  are
                     integers  may  or  may not be included (they can be implied by min and max).
                     Note that options which behave like  choice  options,  but  are  not  actual
                     choice options internally, may not have this info available.

       property-list
              Return the list of top-level properties.

   Property Expansion
       All   string   arguments   to   input   commands   as   well   as  certain  options  (like
       --term-playing-msg) are subject to property expansion. Note that property  expansion  does
       not  work  in  places  where  e.g. numeric parameters are expected.  (For example, the add
       command does not do property expansion. The set command is an exception and not a  general
       rule.)

          Example for input.conf

          i show-text Filename: ${filename}
                 shows the filename of the current file when pressing the i key

       Within  input.conf, property expansion can be inhibited by putting the raw prefix in front
       of commands.

       The following expansions are supported:

       ${NAME}
              Expands to the value of the property NAME. If retrieving the property fails, expand
              to  an  error  string. (Use ${NAME:} with a trailing : to expand to an empty string
              instead.)  If NAME is prefixed with =, expand to the raw value of the property (see
              section below).

       ${NAME:STR}
              Expands  to  the  value  of  the  property  NAME,  or STR if the property cannot be
              retrieved. STR is expanded recursively.

       ${?NAME:STR}
              Expands to STR (recursively) if the property NAME is available.

       ${!NAME:STR}
              Expands to STR (recursively) if the property NAME cannot be retrieved.

       ${?NAME==VALUE:STR}
              Expands to STR (recursively) if the property NAME expands  to  a  string  equal  to
              VALUE.  You  can prefix NAME with = in order to compare the raw value of a property
              (see section below). If the property is unavailable, or other  errors  happen  when
              retrieving  it, the value is never considered equal.  Note that VALUE can't contain
              any of the characters : or }.  Also, it is possible that escaping with " or % might
              be added in the future, should the need arise.

       ${!NAME==VALUE:STR}
              Same  as  with the ? variant, but STR is expanded if the value is not equal. (Using
              the same semantics as with ?.)

       $$     Expands to $.

       $}     Expands to }. (To produce this character inside recursive expansion.)

       $>     Disable property expansion and special handling of $ for the rest of the string.

       In places where property expansion is allowed, C-style escapes are often accepted as well.
       Example:

          • \n becomes a newline character

          • \\ expands to \

   Raw and Formatted Properties
       Normally, properties are formatted as human-readable text, meant to be displayed on OSD or
       on the terminal. It is possible to retrieve an unformatted (raw) value from a property  by
       prefixing its name with =. These raw values can be parsed by other programs and follow the
       same conventions as the options associated with the properties.

          Examples

          • ${time-pos} expands to 00:14:23 (if playback position is at 14 minutes 23 seconds)

          • ${=time-pos} expands to 863.4 (same time, plus 400 milliseconds  -  milliseconds  are
            normally not shown in the formatted case)

       Sometimes,  the  difference in amount of information carried by raw and formatted property
       values can be rather big. In some cases, raw values have  more  information,  like  higher
       precision than seconds with time-pos. Sometimes it is the other way around, e.g. aid shows
       track title and language in the formatted case, but only the track number if it is raw.

ON SCREEN CONTROLLER

       The On Screen Controller (short: OSC) is a minimal GUI integrated with mpv to offer  basic
       mouse-controllability.  It  is  intended  to  make interaction easier for new users and to
       enable precise and direct seeking.

       The OSC is enabled by default if mpv was compiled with Lua support.  It  can  be  disabled
       entirely using the --osc=no option.

   Using the OSC
       By  default, the OSC will show up whenever the mouse is moved inside the player window and
       will hide if the mouse is not moved outside the OSC for 0.5 seconds or if the mouse leaves
       the window.

   The Interface
          +------------------+-----------+--------------------+
          | playlist prev    |   title   |      playlist next |
          +-------+------+---+--+------+-+----+------+--------+
          | audio | skip | seek |      | seek | skip |  full  |
          +-------+ back | back | play | frwd | frwd | screen |
          | sub   |      |      |      |      |      |        |
          +-------+------+------+------+------+------+--------+
          |                     seekbar                       |
          +----------------+--------------+-------------------+
          | time passed    | cache status |    time remaining |
          +----------------+--------------+-------------------+

       playlist prev

                               ┌──────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
                               │left-click    │ play previous file in playlist │
                               ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
                               │shift+L-click │ show playlist                  │
                               └──────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

       title
              Displays current media-title or filename

                               ┌────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                               │left-click  │ show   playlist   position   and │
                               │            │ length and full title            │
                               ├────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                               │right-click │ show filename                    │
                               └────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

       playlist next

                                 ┌──────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
                                 │left-click    │ play next file in playlist │
                                 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
                                 │shift+L-click │ show playlist              │
                                 └──────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

       audio and sub
              Displays selected track and amount of available tracks

                              ┌──────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                              │left-click    │ cycle audio/sub tracks forward   │
                              ├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                              │right-click   │ cycle audio/sub tracks backwards │
                              ├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                              │shift+L-click │ show available audio/sub tracks  │
                              └──────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

       skip back

                              ┌──────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                              │left-click    │ go to  beginning  of  chapter  / │
                              │              │ previous chapter                 │
                              ├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
                              │shift+L-click │ show chapters                    │
                              └──────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

       seek back

                                    ┌──────────────┬──────────────────────┐
                                    │left-click    │ skip back  5 seconds │
                                    ├──────────────┼──────────────────────┤
                                    │right-click   │ skip back 30 seconds │
                                    ├──────────────┼──────────────────────┤
                                    │shift-L-click │ skip back  1 frame   │
                                    └──────────────┴──────────────────────┘

       play

                                       ┌───────────┬───────────────────┐
                                       │left-click │ toggle play/pause │
                                       └───────────┴───────────────────┘

       seek frwd

                                   ┌──────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
                                   │left-click    │ skip forward 10 seconds │
                                   ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
                                   │right-click   │ skip forward 60 seconds │
                                   ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
                                   │shift-L-click │ skip forward  1 frame   │
                                   └──────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

       skip frwd

                                     ┌──────────────┬────────────────────┐
                                     │left-click    │ go to next chapter │
                                     ├──────────────┼────────────────────┤
                                     │shift+L-click │ show chapters      │
                                     └──────────────┴────────────────────┘

       fullscreen

                                       ┌───────────┬───────────────────┐
                                       │left-click │ toggle fullscreen │
                                       └───────────┴───────────────────┘

       seekbar
              Indicates current playback position and position of chapters

                                        ┌───────────┬──────────────────┐
                                        │left-click │ seek to position │
                                        └───────────┴──────────────────┘

       time passed
              Shows current playback position timestamp

                                ┌───────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                                │left-click │ toggle displaying timecodes with │
                                │           │ milliseconds                     │
                                └───────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

       cache status
              Shows current cache fill status (only visible when below 45%)

       time remaining
              Shows remaining playback time timestamp

                                ┌───────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                                │left-click │ toggle   between    total    and │
                                │           │ remaining time                   │
                                └───────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

   Key Bindings
       These  key  bindings are active by default if nothing else is already bound to these keys.
       In case of collision, the function needs to be bound to a different key.  See  the  Script
       Commands section.

                                ┌────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
                                │del │ Hide  the  OSC permanently until │
                                │    │ mpv is restarted.                │
                                └────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

   Configuration
       The OSC offers limited configuration through a config file lua-settings/osc.conf placed in
       mpv's user dir and through the --script-opts command-line option. Options provided through
       the command-line will override those from the config file.

   Config Syntax
       The config file must exactly follow the following syntax:

          # this is a comment
          optionA=value1
          optionB=value2

       # can only be used at the beginning of a line and there may be no spaces around the  =  or
       anywhere else.

   Command-line Syntax
       To avoid collisions with other scripts, all options need to be prefixed with osc-.

       Example:

          --script-opts=osc-optionA=value1,osc-optionB=value2

   Configurable Options
       showwindowed
              Default: yes
              Enable the OSC when windowed

       showfullscreen
              Default: yes
              Enable the OSC when fullscreen

       scalewindowed
              Default: 1.0
              Scale factor of the OSC when windowed

       scalefullscreen
              Default: 1.0
              Scale factor of the OSC when fullscreen

       scaleforcedwindow
              Default: 2.0
              Scale factor of the OSC when rendered on a forced (dummy) window

       vidscale
              Default: yes
              Scale the OSC with the video
              no tries to keep the OSC size constant as much as the window size allows

       valign
              Default: 0.8
              Vertical alignment, -1 (top) to 1 (bottom)

       halign
              Default: 0.0
              Horizontal alignment, -1 (left) to 1 (right)

       boxalpha
              Default: 80
              Alpha of the background box, 0 (opaque) to 255 (fully transparent)

       hidetimeout
              Default: 500
              Duration in ms until the OSC hides if no mouse movement, negative value
              disables auto-hide

       fadeduration
              Default: 200
              Duration of fade out in ms, 0 = no fade

       deadzonesize
              Default: 0
              Size of the deadzone. The deadzone is an area that makes the mouse act
              like leaving the window. Movement there won't make the OSC show up and
              it will hide immediately if the mouse enters it. The deadzone starts
              at the window border opposite to the OSC and the size controls how much
              of the window it will span. Values between 0 and 1.

       minmousemove
              Default: 3
              Minimum amount of pixels the mouse has to move between ticks to make
              the OSC show up

       layout
              Default: box
              The layout for the OSC. Currently available are: box, slimbox,
              bottombar and topbar.

       seekbarstyle
              Default: slider
              Sets the style of the seekbar, slider (diamond marker) or bar (fill)

       timetotal
              Default: no
              Show total time instead of time remaining

       timems
              Default: no
              Display timecodes with milliseconds

   Script Commands
       The OSC script listens to certain script commands. These commands can bound in input.conf,
       or sent by other scripts.

       enable-osc
              Undoes disable-osc or the effect of the del key.

       disable-osc
              Hide the OSC permanently. This is also what the del key does.

       osc-message
              Show a message on screen using the OSC. First argument is the message,  second  the
              duration in seconds.

       Example

       You could put this into input.conf to hide the OSC with the a key and to unhide it with b:

          a script_message disable-osc
          b script_message enable-osc

LUA SCRIPTING

       mpv  can  load Lua scripts. Scripts passed to the --script option, or found in the scripts
       subdirectory of the mpv configuration directory (usually ~/.config/mpv/scripts/)  will  be
       loaded  on  program  start.  mpv also appends the scripts subdirectory to the end of Lua's
       path so you can import scripts from there too. Since it's added to  the  end,  don't  name
       scripts  you want to import the same as Lua libraries because they will be overshadowed by
       them.

       mpv provides the built-in module mp, which contains functions to send commands to the  mpv
       core  and  to  retrieve information about playback state, user settings, file information,
       and so on.

       These scripts can be used to control mpv in a similar way to slave mode.  Technically, the
       Lua code uses the client API internally.

   Example
       A script which leaves fullscreen mode when the player is paused:

          function on_pause_change(name, value)
              if value == true then
                  mp.set_property("fullscreen", "no")
              end
          end
          mp.observe_property("pause", "bool", on_pause_change)

   Details on the script initialization and lifecycle
       Your  script  will be loaded by the player at program start from the scripts configuration
       subdirectory, or from a path specified with the --script option. Some scripts  are  loaded
       internally  (like --osc). Each script runs in its own thread. Your script is first run "as
       is", and once that is done, the event loop is  entered.  This  event  loop  will  dispatch
       events  received  by  mpv  and call your own event handlers which you have registered with
       mp.register_event, or timers added with mp.add_timeout or similar.

       When the player quits, all scripts will be asked to terminate. This happens via a shutdown
       event,  which  by  default  will  make  the  event loop return. If your script got into an
       endless loop, mpv will  probably  behave  fine  during  playback  (unless  the  player  is
       suspended,  see mp.suspend), but it won't terminate when quitting, because it's waiting on
       your script.

       Internally, the C code will call the  Lua  function  mp_event_loop  after  loading  a  Lua
       script. This function is normally defined by the default prelude loaded before your script
       (see player/lua/defaults.lua in the mpv sources).  The event loop will wait for events and
       dispatch  events  registered with mp.register_event. It will also handle timers added with
       mp.add_timeout and similar (by waiting with a timeout).

       Since mpv 0.6.0, the player will wait until the script is fully loaded  before  continuing
       normal  operation.  The  player  considers  a  script as fully loaded as soon as it starts
       waiting for mpv events (or it exits). In practice this means the player will more or  less
       hang  until  the  script returns from the main chunk (and mp_event_loop is called), or the
       script calls mp_event_loop or  mp.dispatch_events  directly.  This  is  done  to  make  it
       possible  for a script to fully setup event handlers etc. before playback actually starts.
       In older mpv versions, this happened asynchronously.

   mp functions
       The mp module is preloaded, although it can be  loaded  manually  with  require  'mp'.  It
       provides the core client API.

       mp.command(string)
              Run  the  given  command.  This is similar to the commands used in input.conf.  See
              List of Input Commands.

              By default, this will show something on the OSD (depending on the command),  as  if
              it  was  used  in input.conf. See Input Command Prefixes how to influence OSD usage
              per command.

              Returns true on success, or nil, error on error.

       mp.commandv(arg1, arg2, ...)
              Similar to mp.command, but pass each command argument as separate  parameter.  This
              has  the  advantage  that you don't have to care about quoting and escaping in some
              cases.

              Example:

                 mp.command("loadfile " .. filename .. " append")
                 mp.commandv("loadfile", filename, "append")

              These two commands are equivalent, except that the  first  version  breaks  if  the
              filename contains spaces or certain special characters.

              Note  that  properties  are  not  expanded.   You  can  use  either mp.command, the
              expand-properties prefix, or the mp.get_property family of functions.

              Unlike mp.command, this will not  use  OSD  by  default  either  (except  for  some
              OSD-specific commands).

       mp.command_native(table [,def])
              Similar to mp.commandv, but pass the argument list as table. This has the advantage
              that in at least some cases, arguments can be passed as native types.

              Returns a result table on success (usually empty), or def, error on error.  def  is
              the second parameter provided to the function, and is nil if it's missing.

       mp.get_property(name [,def])
              Return  the value of the given property as string. These are the same properties as
              used in input.conf. See Properties for a list of properties. The returned string is
              formatted similar to ${=name} (see Property Expansion).

              Returns  the string on success, or def, error on error. def is the second parameter
              provided to the function, and is nil if it's missing.

       mp.get_property_osd(name [,def])
              Similar to mp.get_property, but return the property value formatted for  OSD.  This
              is the same string as printed with ${name} when used in input.conf.

              Returns  the string on success, or def, error on error. def is the second parameter
              provided to  the  function,  and  is  an  empty  string  if  it's  missing.  Unlike
              get_property(),  assigning  the  return value to a variable will always result in a
              string.

       mp.get_property_bool(name [,def])
              Similar to mp.get_property, but return the property value as Boolean.

              Returns a Boolean on success, or def, error on error.

       mp.get_property_number(name [,def])
              Similar to mp.get_property, but return the property value as number.

              Note that while Lua does not distinguish between integers and floats, mpv internals
              do.  This  function  simply  request  a double float from mpv, and mpv will usually
              convert integer property values to float.

              Returns a number on success, or def, error on error.

       mp.get_property_native(name [,def])
              Similar to mp.get_property, but return the property value using the best  Lua  type
              for  the  property.  Most time, this will return a string, Boolean, or number. Some
              properties (for example chapter-list) are returned as tables.

              Returns a value on success, or def, error on  error.  Note  that  nil  might  be  a
              possible, valid value too in some corner cases.

       mp.set_property(name, value)
              Set  the  given  property  to  the  given  string  value.  See  mp.get_property and
              Properties for more information about properties.

              Returns true on success, or nil, error on error.

       mp.set_property_bool(name, value)
              Similar to mp.set_property, but set the given property to the given Boolean value.

       mp.set_property_number(name, value)
              Similar to mp.set_property, but set the given property to the given numeric value.

              Note that while Lua does not distinguish between integers and floats, mpv internals
              do.  This  function will test whether the number can be represented as integer, and
              if so, it will pass an integer value to mpv, otherwise a double float.

       mp.set_property_native(name, value)
              Similar to mp.set_property, but set the given property using its native type.

              Since there are several data types which can not represented natively in Lua,  this
              might  not  always work as expected. For example, while the Lua wrapper can do some
              guesswork to decide whether a Lua table is an array or a map, this would fail  with
              empty  tables.  Also, there are not many properties for which it makes sense to use
              this, instead of set_property, set_property_bool, set_property_number.   For  these
              reasons,  this  function  should probably be avoided for now, except for properties
              that use tables natively.

       mp.get_time()
              Return the current mpv internal time in seconds as a number. This is basically  the
              system time, with an arbitrary offset.

       mp.add_key_binding(key, name|fn [,fn [,flags]])
              Register  callback  to  be  run on a key binding. The binding will be mapped to the
              given key, which is a string describing the physical key. This uses  the  same  key
              names as in input.conf, and also allows combinations (e.g. ctrl+a).

              After  calling  this  function, key presses will cause the function fn to be called
              (unless the user remapped the key with another binding).

              The name argument should be a short symbolic string. It allows the  user  to  remap
              the  key  binding  via input.conf using the script_message command, and the name of
              the key binding (see below for an example). The name should be unique across  other
              bindings  in the same script - if not, the previous binding with the same name will
              be overwritten. You can omit the name, in which case a  random  name  is  generated
              internally.

              The  last  argument is used for optional flags. This is a table, which can have the
              following entries:

                 repeatable
                        If set to true, enables key repeat for this specific binding.

                 complex
                        If set to true, then fn is called on both key up and down events (as well
                        as  key  repeat, if enabled), with the first argument being a table. This
                        table has an event entry, which is  set  to  one  of  the  strings  down,
                        repeat,  up  or  press  (the  latter if key up/down can't be tracked). It
                        further has an is_mouse entry, which tells whether the event  was  caused
                        by a mouse button.

              Internally, key bindings are dispatched via the script_message_to or script_binding
              input commands and mp.register_script_message.

              Trying to map multiple commands to a key will essentially prefer a random  binding,
              while  the  other  bindings  are  not  called.  It  is guaranteed that user defined
              bindings in the central input.conf are preferred  over  bindings  added  with  this
              function (but see mp.add_forced_key_binding).

              Example:

                 function something_handler()
                     print("the key was pressed")
                 end
                 mp.add_key_binding("x", "something", something_handler)

              This will print the message the key was pressed when x was pressed.

              The  user can remap these key bindings. Then the user has to put the following into
              his input.conf to remap the command to the y key:

                 y script_binding something

              This will print the message when the key y is pressed. (x will still  work,  unless
              the user remaps it.)

              You  can  also  explicitly  send a message to a named script only. Assume the above
              script was using the filename fooscript.lua:

                 y script_binding fooscript.something

       mp.add_forced_key_binding(...)
              This works almost the same as mp.add_key_binding, but registers the key binding  in
              a   way  that  will  overwrite  the  user's  custom  bindings  in  his  input.conf.
              (mp.add_key_binding overwrites default key bindings only,  but  not  those  by  the
              user's input.conf.)

       mp.remove_key_binding(name)
              Remove  a  key  binding added with mp.add_key_binding or mp.add_forced_key_binding.
              Use the same name as you used when adding the bindings. It's not possible to remove
              bindings for which you omitted the name.

       mp.register_event(name, fn)
              Call a specific function when an event happens. The event name is a string, and the
              function fn is a Lua function value.

              Some events have associated data. This is put  into  a  Lua  table  and  passed  as
              argument  to  fn. The Lua table by default contains a name field, which is a string
              containing the event name. If the event has an error associated, the error field is
              set to a string describing the error, on success it's not set.

              If  multiple  functions  are  registered  for  the  same  event,  they  are  run in
              registration order, which the first registered  function  running  before  all  the
              other ones.

              Returns true if such an event exists, false otherwise.

              See Events and List of events for details.

       mp.unregister_event(fn)
              Undo  mp.register_event(..., fn). This removes all event handlers that are equal to
              the fn parameter. This uses normal Lua == comparison, so be  careful  when  dealing
              with closures.

       mp.observe_property(name, type, fn)
              Watch  a  property  for changes. If the property name is changed, then the function
              fn(name) will be called. type can be nil, or be set to one of none,  native,  bool,
              string, or number.  none is the same as nil. For all other values, the new value of
              the property will be passed as second argument to fn, using  mp.get_property_<type>
              to  retrieve  it. This means if type is for example string, fn is roughly called as
              in fn(name, mp.get_property_string(name)).

              If possible, change events are coalesced. If a property is changed a bunch of times
              in  a  row,  only the last change triggers the change function. (The exact behavior
              depends on timing and other things.)

              In some cases the function is not called even if  the  property  changes.   Whether
              this can happen depends on the property.

              If  the  type  is  none  or nil, sporadic property change events are possible. This
              means the change function fn can be called even if the  property  doesn't  actually
              change.

       mp.unobserve_property(fn)
              Undo  mp.observe_property(...,  fn).  This  removes  all property handlers that are
              equal to the fn parameter. This uses normal Lua == comparison, so be  careful  when
              dealing with closures.

       mp.add_timeout(seconds, fn)
              Call the given function fn when the given number of seconds has elapsed.  Note that
              the number of seconds can be fractional. For now, the timer's resolution may be  as
              low as 50 ms, although this will be improved in the future.

              This is a one-shot timer: it will be removed when it's fired.

              Returns a timer object. See mp.add_periodic_timer for details.

       mp.add_periodic_timer(seconds, fn)
              Call the given function periodically. This is like mp.add_timeout, but the timer is
              re-added after the function fn is run.

              Returns a timer object. The timer object provides the following methods:

                     stop() Disable the timer. Does nothing if the  timer  is  already  disabled.
                            This  will  remember  the current elapsed time when stopping, so that
                            resume() essentially unpauses the timer.

                     kill() Disable the timer. Resets the elapsed time. resume() will restart the
                            timer.

                     resume()
                            Restart  the  timer. If the timer was disabled with stop(), this will
                            resume at the time it was stopped. If the  timer  was  disabled  with
                            kill(),  or  if  it's  a  previously fired one-shot timer (added with
                            add_timeout()), this starts the timer from the beginning,  using  the
                            initially configured timeout.

                     timeout (RW)
                            This  field  contains  the  current timeout period. This value is not
                            updated as time progresses. It's only  used  to  calculate  when  the
                            timer should fire next when the timer expires.

                            If  you  write  this, you can call t:kill() ; t:resume() to reset the
                            current timeout to the new one. (t:stop() won't use the new timeout.)

                     oneshot (RW)
                            Whether the timer is periodic (false) or fires just once (true). This
                            value  is  used when the timer expires (but before the timer callback
                            function fn is run).

              Note that these are method, and you have to call them using : instead of  .  (Refer
              to http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.4.9 .)

              Example:

                 seconds = 0
                 timer = mp.add_periodic_timer(1, function()
                     print("called every second")
                     # stop it after 10 seconds
                     seconds = seconds + 1
                     if seconds >= 10 then
                         timer:kill()
                     end
                 end)

       mp.get_opt(key)
              Return  a setting from the --script-opts option. It's up to the user and the script
              how this mechanism is used. Currently, all scripts can access this equally, so  you
              should be careful about collisions.

       mp.get_script_name()
              Return  the name of the current script. The name is usually made of the filename of
              the script, with directory and file extension removed. If there are several  script
              which would have the same name, it's made unique by appending a number.

                 Example

                        The script /path/to/fooscript.lua becomes fooscript.

       mp.osd_message(text [,duration])
              Show  an  OSD  message on the screen. duration is in seconds, and is optional (uses
              --osd-duration by default).

   Advanced mp functions
       These also live in the mp module, but are documented separately as they are useful only in
       special situations.

       mp.suspend()
              Suspend  the mpv main loop. There is a long-winded explanation of this in the C API
              function mpv_suspend(). In short, this prevents the player from displaying the next
              video frame, so that you don't get blocked when trying to access the player.

              This is automatically called by the event handler.

       mp.resume()
              Undo  one  mp.suspend()  call.  mp.suspend()  increments  an  internal counter, and
              mp.resume() decrements it. When 0 is reached, the player is actually resumed.

       mp.resume_all()
              This resets the internal suspend counter and resumes the player. (It's like calling
              mp.resume() until the player is actually resumed.)

              You might want to call this if you're about to do something that takes a long time,
              but doesn't really need access to the player (like a network operation). Note  that
              you still can access the player at any time.

       mp.get_wakeup_pipe()
              Calls  mpv_get_wakeup_pipe()  and  returns  the  read  end of the wakeup pipe. (See
              client.h for details.)

       mp.get_next_timeout()
              Return the relative time  in  seconds  when  the  next  timer  (mp.add_timeout  and
              similar) expires. If there is no timer, return nil.

       mp.dispatch_events([allow_wait])
              This can be used to run custom event loops. If you want to have direct control what
              the Lua script does (instead of being called by the default event  loop),  you  can
              set  the global variable mp_event_loop to your own function running the event loop.
              From your event loop, you should call mp.dispatch_events() to dequeue and  dispatch
              mpv events.

              If  the allow_wait parameter is set to true, the function will block until the next
              event is received or the next timer expires. Otherwise (and  this  is  the  default
              behavior),  it  returns  as  soon  as  the  event  loop  is  emptied. It's strongly
              recommended  to  use  mp.get_next_timeout()  and  mp.get_wakeup_pipe()  if   you're
              interested in properly working notification of new events and working timers.

              This function calls mp.suspend() and mp.resume_all() on its own.

       mp.enable_messages(level)
              Set  the  minimum  log level of which mpv message output to receive. These messages
              are normally printed to the terminal. By calling this function,  you  can  set  the
              minimum  log level of messages which should be received with the log-message event.
              See the description of this event for details.  The level is a string, see  msg.log
              for allowed log levels.

       mp.register_script_message(name, fn)
              This is a helper to dispatch script_message or script_message_to invocations to Lua
              functions. fn is called if script_message or script_message_to (with this script as
              destination)  is  run with name as first parameter. The other parameters are passed
              to fn.  If a message with the given name is already registered, it's overwritten.

              Used by mp.add_key_binding, so be careful about name collisions.

       mp.unregister_script_message(name)
              Undo a previous registration with mp.register_script_message. Does nothing  if  the
              name wasn't registered.

   mp.msg functions
       This  module  allows  outputting  messages to the terminal, and can be loaded with require
       'mp.msg'.

       msg.log(level, ...)
              The level parameter is the message priority. It's a string and one of fatal, error,
              warn,  info,  v,  debug. The user's settings will determine which of these messages
              will be visible. Normally, all messages are visible, except v and debug.

              The parameters after that are all converted to  strings.  Spaces  are  inserted  to
              separate multiple parameters.

              You don't need to add newlines.

       msg.fatal(...),    msg.error(...),    msg.warn(...),    msg.info(...),   msg.verbose(...),
       msg.debug(...)
              All of these are shortcuts and equivalent to the corresponding msg.log(level,  ...)
              call.

   mp.options functions
       mpv comes with a built-in module to manage options from config-files and the command-line.
       All you have to do is to supply a table with default options to the read_options function.
       The  function  will  overwrite the default values with values found in the config-file and
       the command-line (in that order).

       options.read_options(table [, identifier])
              A table with key-value pairs. The type of  the  default  values  is  important  for
              converting  the  values  read from the config file or command-line back. Do not use
              nil as a default value!

              The identifier is used to identify the config-file and  the  command-line  options.
              These  needs  to  unique  to  avoid  collisions  with  other  scripts.  Defaults to
              mp.get_script_name().

       Example implementation:

          require 'mp.options'
          local options = {
              optionA = "defaultvalueA",
              optionB = -0.5,
              optionC = true,
          }
          read_options(options, "myscript")
          print(options.optionA)

       The config file will be stored  in  lua-settings/identifier.conf  in  mpv's  user  folder.
       Comment lines can be started with # and stray spaces are not removed.  Boolean values will
       be represented with yes/no.

       Example config:

          # comment
          optionA=Hello World
          optionB=9999
          optionC=no

       Command-line options are read from the --script-opts parameter. To avoid  collisions,  all
       keys have to be prefixed with identifier-.

       Example command-line:

          --script-opts=myscript-optionA=TEST,myscript-optionB=0,myscript-optionC=yes

   mp.utils options
       This built-in module provides generic helper functions for Lua, and have strictly speaking
       nothing to do with mpv or video/audio playback. They are provided  for  convenience.  Most
       compensate for Lua's scarce standard library.

       Be warned that any of these functions might disappear any time. They are not strictly part
       of the guaranteed API.

       utils.getcwd()
              Returns the directory that mpv was launched from. On error, nil, error is returned.

       utils.readdir(path [, filter])
              Enumerate all entries at the given path on  the  filesystem,  and  return  them  as
              array.  Each  entry  is a directory entry (without the path).  The list is unsorted
              (in whatever order the operating system returns it).

              If the filter argument is given, it must be one of the following strings:

                 files  List regular files only. This excludes directories, special  files  (like
                        UNIX device files or FIFOs), and dead symlinks. It includes UNIX symlinks
                        to regular files.

                 dirs   List directories only, or symlinks to directories.  .  and  ..   are  not
                        included.

                 normal Include the results of both files and dirs. (This is the default.)

                 all    List  all entries, even device files, dead symlinks, FIFOs, and the . and
                        .. entries.

              On error, nil, error is returned.

       utils.split_path(path)
              Split a path into directory component and filename component, and return them.  The
              first return value is always the directory. The second return value is the trailing
              part of the path, the directory entry.

       utils.join_path(p1, p2)
              Return the concatenation of the 2 paths. Tries to be clever. For example, if `p2 is
              an absolute path, p2 is returned without change.

       utils.subprocess(t)
              Runs  an  external process and waits until it exits. Returns process status and the
              captured output.

              The parameter t is a table. The function reads the following entries:

                 args   Array of strings. The first array entry is the executable.  This  can  be
                        either  an absolute path, or a filename with no path components, in which
                        case the PATH environment variable is used to resolve the executable. The
                        other array elements are passed as command line arguments.

                 cancellable
                        Optional.  If  set  to true (default), then if the user stops playback or
                        goes to the next file while the process is running, the process  will  be
                        killed.

                 max_size
                        Optional. The maximum size in bytes of the data that can be captured from
                        stdout. (Default: 16 MB.)

              The function returns a table as result with the following entries:

                 status The raw exit status of the process. It will be negative on error.

                 stdout Captured output stream as string, limited to max_size.

                 error  nil on success. The string killed if the process  was  terminated  in  an
                        unusual way. The string init if the process could not be started.

                        On  Windows,  killed is only returned when the process has been killed by
                        mpv as a result of cancellable being set to true.

                 killed_by_us
                        Set to true if the process  has  been  killed  by  mpv  as  a  result  of
                        cancellable being set to true.

              In all cases, mp.resume_all() is implicitly called.

       utils.parse_json(str [, trail])
              Parses  the given string argument as JSON, and returns it as a Lua table. On error,
              returns nil, error. (Currently, error is just a string reading error, because there
              is no fine-grained error reporting of any kind.)

              The   returned  value  uses  similar  conventions  as  mp.get_property_native()  to
              distinguish empty objects and arrays.

              If the trail parameter is  true  (or  any  value  equal  to  true),  then  trailing
              non-whitespace text is tolerated by the function, and the trailing text is returned
              as 3rd return value. (The 3rd return value is always there, but with trail set,  no
              error is raised.)

       utils.format_json(v)
              Format  the  given  Lua  table (or value) as a JSON string and return it. On error,
              returns nil, error. (Errors usually only happen on value  types  incompatible  with
              JSON.)

              The   argument  value  uses  similar  conventions  as  mp.set_property_native()  to
              distinguish empty objects and arrays.

       utils.to_string(v)
              Turn the given value into a string. Formats tables and their contents. This doesn't
              do anything special; it is only needed because Lua is terrible.

   Events
       Events  are  notifications  from player core to scripts. You can register an event handler
       with mp.register_event.

       Note that all scripts (and other parts of the player) receive events equally, and  there's
       no such thing as blocking other scripts from receiving events.

       Example:

          function my_fn(event)
              print("start of playback!")
          end

          mp.register_event("file-loaded", my_fn)

   List of events
       start-file
              Happens  right  before  a  new file is loaded. When you receive this, the player is
              loading the file (or possibly already done with it).

       end-file
              Happens after a file was unloaded. Typically, the player will load  the  next  file
              right away, or quit if this was the last file.

              The event has the reason field, which takes one of these values:

              eof    The  file has ended. This can (but doesn't have to) include incomplete files
                     or broken network connections under circumstances.

              stop   Playback was ended by a command.

              quit   Playback was ended by sending the quit command.

              error  An error happened. In this case, an error field is present  with  the  error
                     string.

              redirect
                     Happens with playlists and similar. Details see MPV_END_FILE_REASON_REDIRECT
                     in the C API.

              unknown
                     Unknown. Normally doesn't happen, unless the Lua API is out of sync with the
                     C  API. (Likewise, it could happen that your script gets reason strings that
                     did not exist yet at the time your script was written.)

       file-loaded
              Happens after a file was loaded and begins playback.

       seek   Happens on seeking. (This might include cases when  the  player  seeks  internally,
              even  without  user  interaction.  This  includes e.g. segment changes when playing
              ordered chapters Matroska files.)

       playback-restart
              Start of playback after seek or after file was loaded.

       idle   Idle mode is entered. This happens when playback ended, and the player was  started
              with --idle or --force-window. This mode is implicitly ended when the start-file or
              shutdown events happen.

       tick   Called after a video frame was displayed. This is a  hack,  and  you  should  avoid
              using  it.  Use  timers  instead  and maybe watch pausing/unpausing events to avoid
              wasting CPU when the player is paused.

       shutdown
              Sent when the player quits, and  the  script  should  terminate.  Normally  handled
              automatically. See Details on the script initialization and lifecycle.

       log-message
              Receives messages enabled with mp.enable_messages. The message data is contained in
              the table passed as first parameter to the event handler.  The table  contains,  in
              addition to the default event fields, the following fields:

              prefix The  module  prefix,  identifies the sender of the message. This is what the
                     terminal player puts in front of the message text when using the --v option,
                     and is also what is used for --msg-level.

              level  The  log  level  as  string. See msg.log for possible log level names.  Note
                     that later versions of mpv might add new  levels  or  remove  (undocumented)
                     existing ones.

              text   The  log  message.  The text will end with a newline character. Sometimes it
                     can contain multiple lines.

              Keep in mind that these messages are meant to be hints for humans. You  should  not
              parse them, and prefix/level/text of messages might change any time.

       get-property-reply
              Undocumented (not useful for Lua scripts).

       set-property-reply
              Undocumented (not useful for Lua scripts).

       command-reply
              Undocumented (not useful for Lua scripts).

       client-message
              Undocumented (used internally).

       video-reconfig
              Happens on video output or filter reconfig.

       audio-reconfig
              Happens on audio output or filter reconfig.

       The  following  events  also  happen,  but are deprecated: tracks-changed, track-switched,
       pause, unpause, metadata-update, chapter-change. Use mp.observe_property() instead.

   Extras
       This documents experimental features, or features that are "too special"  to  guarantee  a
       stable interface.

       mp.add_hook(type, priority, fn)
              Add  a  hook callback for type (a string identifying a certain kind of hook). These
              hooks allow the  player  to  call  script  functions  and  wait  for  their  result
              (normally,  the  Lua  scripting interface is asynchronous from the point of view of
              the player core). priority is an arbitrary integer that allows ordering among hooks
              of the same kind. Using the value 50 is recommended as neutral default value. fn is
              the function that will be called during execution of the hook.

              See Hooks for currently existing hooks and what they do - only  the  hook  list  is
              interesting;   handling   hook  execution  is  done  by  the  Lua  script  function
              automatically.

JSON IPC

       mpv can be controlled by external programs using the JSON-based IPC protocol.  It  can  be
       enabled  by  specifying  the  path  to a unix socket using the option --input-unix-socket.
       Clients can connect to this socket and send commands to the player or receive events  from
       it.

       WARNING:
          This  is not intended to be a secure network protocol. It is explicitly insecure: there
          is no authentication, no encryption, and the commands themselves are insecure too.  For
          example,  the  run  command  is  exposed,  which can run arbitrary system commands. The
          use-case is controlling the player locally. This is  not  different  from  the  MPlayer
          slave protocol.

   Socat example
       You  can  use the socat tool to send commands (and receive reply) from the shell. Assuming
       mpv was started with:

          mpv file.mkv --input-unix-socket=/tmp/mpvsocket

       Then you can control it using socat:

          > echo '{ "command": ["get_property", "playback-time"] }' | socat - /tmp/mpvsocket
          {"data":190.482000,"error":"success"}

       In this case, socat copies data between stdin/stdout and the mpv socket connection.

       See the --idle option how to make mpv start without exiting immediately or playing a file.

       It's also possible to send input.conf style text-only commands:

          > echo 'show_text ${playback-time}' | socat - /tmp/mpvsocket

       But you won't get a reply over the socket. (This particular  command  shows  the  playback
       time on the player's OSD.)

   Protocol
       Clients can execute commands on the player by sending JSON messages of the following form:

          { "command": ["command_name", "param1", "param2", ...] }

       where  command_name  is  the  name  of  the  command to be executed, followed by a list of
       parameters. Parameters must  be  formatted  as  native  JSON  values  (integers,  strings,
       booleans, ...). Every message must be terminated with \n. Additionally, \n must not appear
       anywhere inside the message. In practice this  means  that  messages  should  be  minified
       before being sent to mpv.

       mpv  will  then send back a reply indicating whether the command was run correctly, and an
       additional field holding the command-specific return data (it can also be null).

          { "error": "success", "data": null }

       mpv will also send events to clients with JSON messages of the following form:

          { "event": "event_name" }

       where event_name is the name of the event. Additional event-specific fields  can  also  be
       present. See List of events for a list of all supported events.

       Because  events  can  occur  at  any time, it may be difficult at times to determine which
       response goes with which command. Commands may optionally include a request_id  which,  if
       provided  in  the command request, will be copied verbatim into the response. mpv does not
       intrepret the request_id in any way; it is solely for the use of the requester.

       For example, this request:

          { "command": ["get_property", "time-pos"], "request_id": 100 }

       Would generate this response:

          { "error": "success", "data": 1.468135, "request_id": 100 }

       All commands, replies, and events  are  separated  from  each  other  with  a  line  break
       character (\n).

       If  the  first  character  (after  skipping  whitespace)  is  not  {,  the command will be
       interpreted  as  non-JSON  text  command,   as   they   are   used   in   input.conf   (or
       mpv_command_string()  in  the  client  API).  Additionally, line starting with # and empty
       lines are ignored.

       Currently, embedded 0 bytes terminate the current line, but you should not rely on this.

   Commands
       Additionally to  the commands described in List of Input Commands, a  few  extra  commands
       can also be used as part of the protocol:

       client_name
              Return  the  name of the client as string. This is the string ipc-N with N being an
              integer number.

       get_time_us
              Return the current mpv internal time in microseconds as a number. This is basically
              the system time, with an arbitrary offset.

       get_property
              Return the value of the given property. The value will be sent in the data field of
              the replay message.

              Example:

                 { "command": ["get_property", "volume"] }
                 { "data": 50.0, "error": "success" }

       get_property_string
              Like get_property, but the resulting data will always be a string.

              Example:

                 { "command": ["get_property_string", "volume"] }
                 { "data": "50.000000", "error": "success" }

       set_property
              Set the given property to the given value.  See  Properties  for  more  information
              about properties.

              Example:

                 { "command": ["set_property", "pause", true] }
                 { "error": "success" }

       set_property_string
              Like set_property, but the argument value must be passed as string.

              Example:

                 { "command": ["set_property_string", "pause", "yes"] }
                 { "error": "success" }

       observe_property
              Watch  a  property  for changes. If the given property is changed, then an event of
              type property-change will be generated

              Example:

                 { "command": ["observe_property", 1, "volume"] }
                 { "error": "success" }
                 { "event": "property-change", "id": 1, "data": 52.0, "name": "volume" }

       observe_property_string
              Like observe_property, but the resulting data will always be a string.

              Example:

                 { "command": ["observe_property_string", 1, "volume"] }
                 { "error": "success" }
                 { "event": "property-change", "id": 1, "data": "52.000000", "name": "volume" }

       unobserve_property
              Undo observe_property or observe_property_string.  This  requires  the  numeric  id
              passed to the observe command as argument.

              Example:

                 { "command": ["unobserve_property", 1] }
                 { "error": "success" }

       request_log_messages
              Enable  output  of mpv log messages. They will be received as events. The parameter
              to this command is the log-level (see mpv_request_log_messages C API function).

              Log message output is meant for humans only (mostly for debugging).  Attempting  to
              retrieve  information  by  parsing  these messages will just lead to breakages with
              future mpv releases. Instead, make a feature request, and ask for  a  proper  event
              that returns the information you need.

       enable_event, disable_event
              Enables  or disables the named event. Mirrors the mpv_request_event C API function.
              If the string all is used instead of an event  name,  all  events  are  enabled  or
              disabled.

              By default, most events are enabled, and there is not much use for this command.

       suspend
              Suspend  the mpv main loop. There is a long-winded explanation of this in the C API
              function mpv_suspend(). In short, this prevents the player from displaying the next
              video frame, so that you don't get blocked when trying to access the player.

       resume Undo  one  suspend  call.  suspend  increments  an  internal  counter,  and  resume
              decrements it. When 0 is reached, the player is actually resumed.

       get_version
              Returns the client API version the C API of the remote mpv instance provides. (Also
              see DOCS/client-api-changes.rst.)

   UTF-8
       Normally,  all  strings  are  in  UTF-8.  Sometimes it can happen that strings are in some
       broken encoding (often happens with file tags and such, and filenames on many  Unixes  are
       not  required to be in UTF-8 either). This means that mpv sometimes sends invalid JSON. If
       that is a problem for the client application's parser, it should filter the raw  data  for
       invalid  UTF-8  sequences  and perform the desired replacement, before feeding the data to
       its JSON parser.

       mpv will not attempt to construct invalid UTF-8 with broken escape sequences.

CHANGELOG

       There is no real changelog, but you can look at the following things:

       • The release changelog, which should contain most  user-visible  changes,  including  new
         features and bug fixes:

         https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases

       • The git log, which is the "real" changelog

       • The file mplayer-changes.rst in the DOCS sub directory on the git repository, which used
         to be in place of this section. It documents some changes that happened  since  mplayer2
         forked off MPlayer.

EMBEDDING INTO OTHER PROGRAMS (LIBMPV)

       mpv  can  be embedded into other programs as video/audio playback backend. The recommended
       way to to so is using libmpv. See libmpv/client.h in the mpv source code repository.  This
       provides a C API. Bindings for other languages might be available (see wiki).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       There  are  a  number of environment variables that can be used to control the behavior of
       mpv.

       HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME
              Used  to  determine  mpv  config  directory.  If  XDG_CONFIG_HOME   is   not   set,
              $HOME/.config/mpv is used.

              $HOME/.mpv  is  always  added  to  the  list  of  config  search paths with a lower
              priority.

       XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
              If set, XDG-style system configuration directories are used.  Otherwise,  the  UNIX
              convention (PREFIX/etc/mpv/) is used.

       TERM   Used to determine terminal type.

       MPV_HOME
              Directory  where  mpv  looks for user settings. Overrides HOME, and mpv will try to
              load the config file as $MPV_HOME/mpv.conf.

       MPV_VERBOSE (see also -v and --msg-level)
              Set the initial verbosity level across all message modules (default: 0).   This  is
              an  integer,  and  the resulting verbosity corresponds to the number of --v options
              passed to the command line.

       MPV_LEAK_REPORT
              If set to 1, enable internal talloc  leak  reporting.  Note  that  this  can  cause
              trouble with multithreading, so only developers should use this.

       LADSPA_PATH
              Specifies  the search path for LADSPA plugins. If it is unset, fully qualified path
              names must be used.

       DISPLAY
              Standard X11 display name to use.

       FFmpeg/Libav:
              This  library  accesses  various  environment  variables.  However,  they  are  not
              centrally  documented, and documenting them is not our job. Therefore, this list is
              incomplete.

              Notable environment variables:

              http_proxy
                     URL to proxy for http:// and https:// URLs.

              no_proxy
                     List of domain patterns for which no proxy should be used.  List entries are
                     separated by ,. Patterns can include *.

       libdvdcss:

              DVDCSS_CACHE
                     Specify  a  directory in which to store title key values. This will speed up
                     descrambling of DVDs which are in the cache. The DVDCSS_CACHE  directory  is
                     created  if it does not exist, and a subdirectory is created named after the
                     DVD's title or manufacturing date. If DVDCSS_CACHE is not set or  is  empty,
                     libdvdcss  will  use  the default value which is ${HOME}/.dvdcss/ under Unix
                     and the roaming application data directory (%APPDATA%)  under  Windows.  The
                     special value "off" disables caching.

              DVDCSS_METHOD
                     Sets  the  authentication  and  decryption method that libdvdcss will use to
                     read scrambled discs. Can be one of title, key or disc.

                     key    is the default method. libdvdcss will use a set of calculated  player
                            keys to try and get the disc key. This can fail if the drive does not
                            recognize any of the player keys.

                     disc   is a fallback method when key has failed.  Instead  of  using  player
                            keys,  libdvdcss  will  crack  the  disc  key  using  a  brute  force
                            algorithm. This process is CPU intensive and requires 64 MB of memory
                            to store temporary data.

                     title  is  the fallback when all other methods have failed. It does not rely
                            on a key exchange with the DVD drive, but rather uses a crypto attack
                            to  guess the title key. On rare cases this may fail because there is
                            not enough encrypted data  on  the  disc  to  perform  a  statistical
                            attack,  but  on  the  other hand it is the only way to decrypt a DVD
                            stored on a hard disc, or a DVD with the  wrong  region  on  an  RPC2
                            drive.

              DVDCSS_RAW_DEVICE
                     Specify  the  raw  device  to use. Exact usage will depend on your operating
                     system, the Linux utility to set up raw  devices  is  raw(8)  for  instance.
                     Please  note  that  on  most  operating systems, using a raw device requires
                     highly aligned buffers: Linux requires a 2048 bytes alignment (which is  the
                     size of a DVD sector).

              DVDCSS_VERBOSE
                     Sets the libdvdcss verbosity level.

                     0      Outputs no messages at all.

                     1      Outputs error messages to stderr.

                     2      Outputs error messages and debug messages to stderr.

              DVDREAD_NOKEYS
                     Skip retrieving all keys on startup. Currently disabled.

              HOME   FIXME: Document this.

EXIT CODES

       Normally  mpv  returns  0  as  exit code after finishing playback successfully.  If errors
       happen, the following exit codes can be returned:

          1      Error initializing mpv. This is also returned if unknown options are  passed  to
                 mpv.

          2      The  file  passed  to mpv couldn't be played. This is somewhat fuzzy: currently,
                 playback of a file is considered to be successful if initialization  was  mostly
                 successful, even if playback fails immediately after initialization.

          3      There were some files that could be played, and some files which couldn't (using
                 the definition of success from above).

          4      Quit due to a signal, Ctrl+c in a VO window (by default), or  from  the  default
                 quit key bindings in encoding mode.

       Note  that  quitting  the  player manually will always lead to exit code 0, overriding the
       exit code that would be returned normally. Also, the quit input command can take  an  exit
       code: in this case, that exit code is returned.

FILES

       For Windows-specifics, see FILES ON WINDOWS section.

       /etc/mpv/mpv.conf
              mpv  system-wide settings (depends on --prefix passed to configure - mpv in default
              configuration will use /usr/local/etc/mpv/ as config directory,  while  most  Linux
              distributions will set it to /etc/mpv/).

       ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
              mpv user settings (see CONFIGURATION FILES section)

       ~/.config/mpv/input.conf
              key bindings (see INPUT.CONF section)

       ~/.config/mpv/scripts/
              All  files  in  this  directory  are  loaded as if they were passed to the --script
              option. They are loaded in alphabetical order, and sub-directories and  files  with
              no  .lua extension are ignored. The --load-scripts=no option disables loading these
              files.

       ~/.config/mpv/watch_later/
              Contains temporary config files needed for resuming  playback  of  files  with  the
              watch  later  feature.  See  for example the Q key binding, or the quit_watch_later
              input command.

              Each file is a small config file which is loaded if the corresponding media file is
              loaded.  It  contains the playback position and some (not necessarily all) settings
              that were changed during playback. The filenames are hashed from the full paths  of
              the  media  files.  It's in general not possible to extract the media filename from
              this hash. However, you can set the --write-filename-in-watch-later-config  option,
              and  the  player  will  add the media filename to the contents of the resume config
              file.

       ~/.config/mpv/lua-settings/osc.conf
              This is loaded by the OSC script. See the ON SCREEN CONTROLLER docs for details.

              Other files in this directory are specific to the corresponding  scripts  as  well,
              and the mpv core doesn't touch them.

       Note  that  the  environment  variables  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME  and  $MPV_HOME can override the
       standard directory ~/.config/mpv/.

       Also, the old config location at ~/.mpv/ is still read, and if the XDG  variant  does  not
       exist, will still be preferred.

FILES ON WINDOWS

       On  win32  (if compiled with MinGW, but not Cygwin), the default config file locations are
       different. They are generally located under %APPDATA%/mpv/.   For  example,  the  path  to
       mpv.conf  is  %APPDATA%/mpv/mpv.conf,  which  maps to a system and user-specific path, for
       example
          C:\users\USERNAME\Application Data\mpv\mpv.conf

       You can find the exact path by running echo %APPDATA%\mpv\mpv.conf in cmd.exe.

       Other config files (such as input.conf) are in the same directory. See the  FILES  section
       above.

       The environment variable $MPV_HOME completely overrides these, like on UNIX.

       If a directory named portable_config next to the mpv.exe exists, all config will be loaded
       from this directory only. Watch later config files are written to this directory as  well.
       (This  exists  on  Windows only and is redundant with $MPV_HOME. However, since Windows is
       very scripting unfriendly, a wrapper script just setting $MPV_HOME, like you could  do  it
       on  other  systems,  won't work. portable_config is provided for convenience to get around
       this restriction.)

       Config files located in the same directory as mpv.exe are loaded with lower priority. Some
       config  files are loaded only once, which means that e.g. of 2 input.conf files located in
       two config directories, only the one from the  directory  with  higher  priority  will  be
       loaded.

       A  third  config  directory  with  lowest  priority is the directory named mpv in the same
       directory as mpv.exe. This used to be the directory with  highest  priority,  but  is  now
       discouraged to use and might be removed in the future.

       Note  that  mpv likes to mix / and \ path separators for simplicity.  kernel32.dll accepts
       this, but cmd.exe does not.

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