Installed mpv with Brew, but nothing in Applications

I'm trying to play anime with mpv. I have heard that it's the best player for anime.

https://mpv.io/installation/

I go to the website and I see that there's homebrew.

I run brew install mpv. It seems to complete successfully. Now what?

There doesn't seem to be an mpv app I can use to open my video files in my /Applications.

Solution 1:

If you want to have the application linked to ~/Applications, have homebrew do that.

brew linkapps mpv

Since "linkapps" is being removed (for reasons) across all brew recipes, you might instead tap the cask which drops a functioning mpv into Applications and runs more like an app than a command line tool.

brew install mpv --cask

Solution 2:

As brew linkapps is now deprecated, the correct way to do this is to use the --with-bundle option when installing mpv.

brew install mpv --with-bundle

Because you said you have mpv installed with brew already, it's better to uninstall mpv first with brew uninstall mpv --force After that, run the installation command above.

When the installation is finished, go to your mpv installation folder:

/usr/local/Cellar/mpv/[version]/

You will see an mpv.app in there. Right-click mpv.app > Make Alias. Copy/move the mpv.app alias into your Applications folder. Remove the 'alias' from the filename, so you'll have "mpv.app" in your Applications :)

Reference: mpv formula in homebrew's repository - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/mpv.rb#L14

I prefer using --with-bundle rather than cask install as it allows me to use more compile options and to install different versions of mpv (e.g. --HEAD) as opposed to the pre-built package that cask install uses. Hope this helps!

Solution 3:

Most of the suggestions here no longer work, the current one as of Dec 2020 is:

brew install --cask mpv