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This is a collection of scripts to make downloading and building mpv, ffmpeg and libass easier. ffmpeg and libass get special treatment, because they are essential, and distribution packages are often too old or too broken.

See below for instructions for building Debian packages.

If you are running Mac OSX and using homebrew we provide homebrew-mpv, an up to date formula that compiles mpv with sensible dependencies and defaults for OSX.

Make sure git is installed. E.g. on Debian or Ubuntu:

apt-get install git

Also check that the dependencies listed at the end of this file are installed.

Checkout the build repo:

git clone https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build.git

cd mpv-build

Get the ffmpeg, libass and mpv sources with the following command:

./update

(This is always needed before doing the first build after the initial checkout, and can be used to update ffmpeg/libass/mpv later.)

Build mpv and ffmpeg/libass with:

make clean # sometimes needed to build successfully

make

Install mpv with:

sudo make install

Or if you don't want debugging symbols (smaller binaries):

sudo make install-strip

mpv doesn't need to be installed. The binary ./mpv/mpv can be used as-is. Note that libass and ffmpeg will be statically linked with mpv when using the provided scripts, and no ffmpeg or libass libraries are/need to be installed.

Essential dependencies (incomplete list):

• gcc or clang, yasm, git
• X development headers (xlib, X extensions, vdpau, GL, Xv, ...)
• Audio output development headers (libasound, pulseaudio)
• fribidi, freetype, fontconfig development headers (for libass)
• libjpeg
• libquvi if you want to play Youtube videos directly
• libx264/libmp3lame/libfdk-aac if you want to use encoding (you have to add these options explicitly to the ffmpeg options, as ffmpeg won't autodetect these libraries; see next section)

Note: most dependencies are optional and autodetected. If they're missing, these features will be disabled silently. This includes some dependencies which could be considered essential.

ffmpeg doesn't autodetect many dependencies. Instead, it requires you to enable them explicitly at configuration time. (And it will simply fail if the dependencies are not available.)

You can put additional ffmpeg configure flags into ffmpeg_options. For example, to enable some dependencies needed for encoding:

echo --enable-libx264 >> ffmpeg_options

echo --enable-libmp3lame >> ffmpeg_options

echo --enable-libfdk-aac >> ffmpeg_options

echo --enable-nonfree >> ffmpeg_options

(Do this in the mpv-build toplevel directory, the same that contains the Makefile and this readme file.)

On Debian or Ubuntu systems, you can try to run this command in the mpv-build directory to install most of the required dependencies:

sudo apt-get install devscripts

mk-build-deps -s sudo -ir

This will generate and install a dummy package with the required dependencies. (mk-build-deps is part of devscripts.)

If you don't want to use sudo, you can also try:

mk-build-deps

dpkg -i mpv-build-deps_1.0_all.deb

dpkg -i will require root rights of course.

You can build a full mpv Debian package with the following command:

debuild -uc -us -b -j4

The .deb file will be created in the parent directory. (4 is the number of jobs running in parallel - you can change it.)

The following command can be used to delete all local changes, and to checkout the current master versions for all parts (libass, ffmpeg, mpv, as well as mpv-build itself):

sh ./force-head

All local modifications are overwritten (including changes to the scripts), and git master versions are checked out. Breakages/bugs are to be expected, because these are untested bleeding-edge development versions of the code.

Use on your own risk.

You can find us on IRC in #mpv-player on irc.freenode.net

Report bugs to the issues tracker provided by GitHub to send us bug reports or feature requests.