mpv-rs

safe libmpv bindings for Rust.

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.

The crate is a safe libmpv API binding in Rust. For more info about mpv, see here.

Online documentation for version 0.2.1 (19 July 2016) of this crate is available at this location

If the documentation is outdated and/or the crate is outdated (major changes to master), please submit an issue.

Installing

[dependencies]
mpv = "0.2"

the mpv package is needed for this to run.

Linux

On linux, you can ask your package manager to install it for you.

Arch

# pacman -S mpv

Debian-based systems

# apt-get install libmpv1

Windows

libmpv can be found here for windows. You need to copy the library into your rust binaries folder for it to be linked properly.

Running

2 examples are available from the get go in this crate.

simple.rs will alow you to display a standard mpv player in a new window. Controls will be available.

$ cargo run --example simple

sdl2.rs will embed mpv in an sdl2 window. Controls will not be available and cannot be. If you want an interface on top of this player, you must draw your own with OpenGL calls or SDL2 calls.

$ cargo run --example sdl2

Contributing

Any contribution is welcome, as well as any code review !

What is left to implement

Events :

• ClientMessage

Formats :

• Node
• NodeList
• NodeMap
• ByteArray

MpvHandler impls :

• resume / suspend core (not pause/unpause !)
• load_config_file
• detach_destroy (if only I knew what this was for ?)
• client_name
• set_wakeup_callback
• get_wakeup_pipe
• request_log_messages
• request_event

MpvHandlerWithGl impls :

• raw_opengl_ctx() : return the raw opengl context
• report_flip
• set_update_callback (partially implemented via update_available)

API breaks and version numbers

• Minor beta changes (0.X.0) -> (0.X.1) are non-breaking changes.
• Major beta changes (0.1.X) -> (0.2.0) will probably break the API.
• Once this binding is finished, this crate will be released as 1.0.0

Submitting an issue

Any question concerning the mpv-rs API is welcome in the issues.

If your mpv crashes, please make sure it's coming from this Rust binding and not from the mpv player itself.

License

mpv is globally licensed under GPLv2+ (see here), but this crate is licensed under the zlib license.

Relicensing is possible if it can be properly justified for whatever reason.