I personally use MPV to play my music libraries containing mainly FLAC file and I wrote a plugin [1] using JS to send my listens to listenbrainz.org . It's damn simple, but it worked for the past few months!
it also has a robust Lua scripting interface. I made a tool in Golang and Lua that allows Mpv to treat torrent files and magnet links as if they were http links. You can then stream a torrent directly.
People also don't realize that mpv not only has the ability to stream youtube videos but you can also search youtube on the CLI using mpv `mpv ytdl://ytsearch:query`
it can also play videos directly in the terminal using ascii, sixel or kitty image protocol (which is by far the highest quality)
> I made a tool in Golang and Lua that allows Mpv to treat torrent files and magnet links as if they were http links. You can then stream a torrent directly.
Increíble. Consider putting this up somewhere folks can find it.-
> it can also play videos directly in the terminal using ascii
it's crazy what you can do with its plugin scripts. MPV Android also supports them.
I wrote one which turns off keyboard backlight and maxes brightness for HDR.
Also I'm using it to stream from Gerbera and to sync progress seamlessly between phone and PC.
You can also introduce hotkeys for functionalities I have never seen in another player.
I use this (input.conf) sometimes to normalize the brightness and colors of a scene I'm watching (may not work when using hardware decoding):
Or rotate a video: [1] <https://github.com/occivink/mpv-scripts>