Tauri Plugin libmpv

A Tauri plugin for embedding the mpv player in your app via libmpv.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Setup libmpv development environment.
• Tauri v2.x
• Node.js 18+

Install the Plugin

npm run tauri add libmpv

Configure Window Transparency

For mpv to properly embed into your Tauri window, you need to configure transparency:

1. Set window transparency in tauri.conf.json

{
  "app": {
    "windows": [
      {
        "title": "Your App",
        "width": 1280,
        "height": 720,
        "transparent": true  // Add this line
      }
    ]
  }
}

2. Set web page background to transparent in your CSS

/* In your main CSS file */
html,
body {
  background: transparent;
}

Quick Start

import { destroy, init, MpvConfig, observeProperties, command, MpvObservableProperty } from 'tauri-plugin-libmpv-api';

// Properties to observe
const OBSERVED_PROPERTIES = [
  ['pause', 'flag'],
  ['time-pos', 'double'],
  ['duration', 'double'],
  ['filename', 'string'],
] as const satisfies MpvObservableProperty[];

// mpv configuration
const mpvConfig: MpvConfig = {
  initialOptions: {
    'vo': 'gpu-next',
    'hwdec': 'auto-safe',
    'keep-open': 'yes',
    'force-window': 'yes',
    'pause': 'yes',
  },
  observedProperties: OBSERVED_PROPERTIES,
};

// Initialize mpv
try {
  await init(mpvConfig);
  console.log('mpv initialization completed successfully!');
} catch (error) {
  console.error('mpv initialization failed:', error);
}

// Observe properties
const unlisten = await observeProperties(
  OBSERVED_PROPERTIES,
  ({ name, change }) => {
    switch (name) {
      case 'pause':
        console.log('Playback paused state:', change);
        break;
      case 'time-pos':
        console.log('Current time position:', change);
        break;
      case 'duration':
        console.log('Duration:', change);
        break;
      case 'filename':
        console.log('Current playing file:', change);
        break;
    }
  });

// Unlisten when no longer needed
unlisten();

// Load and play a file
await command('loadfile', ['/path/to/video.mp4']);

// Destroy mpv when no longer needed
await destroy();

Platform Support

• ✅ Windows - Fully tested and supported
• ⚠️ Linux - Not tested
• ⚠️ macOS - Not tested

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the LGPL-2.1 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

This plugin utilizes the libmpv2 and libmpv2-sys crate, which is also licensed under the LGPL-2.1 license.