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mpv vs Baka MPlayer: catalog facts
mpv	Baka MPlayer
Free Free software with no paid version.	Free Free and open source under the GPL 2.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, Linux
High quality video output through OpenGL, Vulkan and D3D11, with scaling, colour management, frame timing… Hardware decoding on most platforms, switchable at runtime with --hwdec	Uses libmpv for wide format support Simple, uncluttered interface
There is no real graphical interface, only a small on-screen controller over the video Configuration means editing mpv.conf and input.conf by hand	No releases published on the GitHub repository Building from source requires Qt 5 and libmpv development packages
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0-or-later	License: GPL-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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