MPlug – a Plugin Manager for MPV

A plugin manager for mpv to easy install and uninstall mpv scripts and more.

Motivation

Mpv is a great, free and open source video player. It has interfaces to extend it with different types of scripts and filters. There is a large number of awesome plugins: Watch Youtube, remove black bars, improve the quality of Anime, remove noise from lecture recordings, skip adds… The possibilities are endless.

MPlug tries to make finding, installing and updating plugins as easy as possible.

Note: The underlying repository of plugins is not (yet) complete, therefore not all plugins can be installed automatically so far. Please help filling it.

Installation

You can install it via pip:

$ pip3 install mplug

Alternatively you can run it from the source:

• Install dependencies: python3, GitPython
• Clone this repository
• Run with run.py

Usage

• You can find plugins in the WebUI of the mpv script directory
• To install a plugin mplug install plugin_name
• To update all plugins: mplug upgrade
• To upgrade database: mplug update
• To uninstall a plugin: mplug uninstall plugin_id
• To disable a plugin without uninstalling it: mplug disable plugin_id
• To search for a plugin mplug search term
• To list all installed plugins mplug list-installed

Status & Todo

• Populate mpv script directory, by scraping wiki
• First version of plugin manager
• Write a Webinterface to browse plugins
• Add install instructions for all plugins to the mpv script directory
• Write a TUI?
• Write a GUI?