{"id":2766,"date":"2025-06-16T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:13:08","slug":"mpv-video-player-config","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/mpv-video-player-config\/","title":{"rendered":"MPV video player config"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Configuration settings for MPV video player that I use &#8212; put into mpv.conf alongside the executable.<\/p>\n<pre>pause\r\nidle=yes\r\nkeep-open=yes<\/pre>\n<p>If installed from the Microsoft Store, need to seek out putting the mpv.conf into the user profile folder.<\/p>\n<p>On win32 (if compiled with MinGW, but not Cygwin), the default config file locations are different. They are generally located under\u00a0<tt class=\"docutils literal\"><span class=\"pre\">%APPDATA%\/mpv\/<\/span><\/tt>. For example, the path to mpv.conf is\u00a0<tt class=\"docutils literal\"><span class=\"pre\">%APPDATA%\/mpv\/mpv.conf<\/span><\/tt>, which maps to a system and user-specific path, for example<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt class=\"docutils literal\"><span class=\"pre\">C:\\users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Roaming\\mpv\\mpv.conf<\/span><\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find the exact path by running\u00a0<tt class=\"docutils literal\">echo\u00a0<span class=\"pre\">%APPDATA%\\mpv\\mpv.conf<\/span><\/tt>\u00a0in cmd.exe.<\/p>\n<p>Other config files (such as\u00a0<tt class=\"docutils literal\">input.conf<\/tt>) are in the same directory. See the\u00a0<a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"https:\/\/mpv.io\/manual\/stable\/#files\">FILES<\/a>\u00a0section above.<\/p>\n<p>The cache directory is located at\u00a0<tt class=\"docutils literal\"><span class=\"pre\">%LOCALAPPDATA%\/mpv\/cache<\/span><\/tt>.<\/p>\n<p>The watch_later directory is located at\u00a0<tt class=\"docutils literal\"><span class=\"pre\">%LOCALAPPDATA%\/mpv\/watch_later<\/span><\/tt>.<\/p>\n<p>The environment variable\u00a0<tt class=\"docutils literal\">$MPV_HOME<\/tt>\u00a0completely overrides these, like on UNIX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Configuration settings for MPV video player that I use &#8212; put into mpv.conf alongside the executable. pause idle=yes keep-open=yes If installed from the Microsoft Store, need to seek out putting the mpv.conf into the user profile folder. On win32 (if compiled with MinGW, but not Cygwin), the default config file locations are different. They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}