“mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.”
it is also not the most straightforward thing to install on ubuntu!
i am neither smart nor motivated enough to manually update from the github every single time there is an update (though come to think of it i’m not sure the method i used is actually that much different. anyways.). i do however enjoy a bit of a challenge and i’ve been meaning to mess around with mpv for a while. therefore i went onto the website to see where to start and i was directed here.
however, i am not running debian, and my computer skills are approximately one and a half steps above a box of rocks. so i turned to good old google for answers and found this post. technically it’s for mint but mint and ubuntu are similar enough that it really didn’t end up mattering.
as always, in case of deletion, i will copypaste the solution here. enter the following commands into the terminal:
sudo apt install ffmpeg
sudo curl --output-dir /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d -O https://apt.fruit.je/fruit.gpg
echo 'deb https://apt.fruit.je/ubuntu jammy mpv'|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fruit.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install mpv libaacs0
(note: you need to install ffmpeg because that’s what mpv relies on.)
if you want to undo what you just did:
sudo apt remove mpv ffmpeg
sudo rm -v /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fruit.list /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/fruit.gpg
sudo apt update
i have yet to actually attempt to configure mpv, but that’s another adventure for another day.