The "MPC" version of MPV. Seen as MPC is no long in active development, MPV is becoming, and should have become, your go to player.
mpv.conf
).One of the nicest features of MPV is that it requires no installation and can be run from its own folder (portable).
youtube-dl
OR yt-dlp
if you pressed 'y' when prompted).Hexchats latest version (2.16.1) doesn't have any built in "now playing" plugins to use. And as of this version, the default MPC-HC "now-playing" script doesn't function. I have included a modified version of an MPV now playing script from github user, FichteFoll, in this pack. Note: This has been modified with some QOL adjustments and pretifying. Not to mention this will also work when streaming video. A prerequisite, Python 3.6 needs to be enabled/selected when you install Hexchat. If you have Hexchat already installed, no problem, just re-run the installer and choose Python 3.x from the Custom Installation screen (right at the bottom).
mpv_np.py
(located in Hexchat addon
folder) from the downloaded pack.%APPDATA%\HexChat
and press enter.addons
folder.mpv_np.py
. Normally this is C:\Users\moodkiller\AppData\Roaming\HexChat\addons
GUI build: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/
Collection of user scripts: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts
MPV properties page: https://mpv.io/manual/master/#synopsis
Thanks goes to all those involved for testing and their inputs for getting stuff running.