Published: October 25, 2025
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@theo @FFmpeg 13:54 - "mpv is a light wrapper around ffplay which is part of ffmpeg" This is just incorrect. mpv has nothing to do with ffplay. Go grep mpv's codebase for "ffplay", you won't find a single result.

@theo @FFmpeg mpv is its own player. It uses ffmpeg's libavformat/codec/etc libraries among others for decoding, yes, but its rendering code, for example, is completely independent from ffmpeg. Calling it a light wrapper is also quite the understatement.

@aegisub_man @theo Yep, it's analogous to saying Android is a wrapper around the Linux kernel

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