macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mplayershelllocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / rank 10951
Install mplayershell with Homebrew, Nix, scoop
Improved visual experience for MPlayer on macOS. Version 0.9.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#mps.
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Additional install commands
Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mpsnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mp/mps/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Windows
Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install extras/mpsScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/mps.json · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Improved visual experience for MPlayer on macOS
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mps
history
Project history and usage
MPlayerShell is Lisa Melton's small macOS wrapper around MPlayer and mplayer2. The project README says she wrote it because she was unhappy with the visual experience of using the command-line players on OS X, especially window behavior, menu handling, full-screen quirks, and other Cocoa-interface rough edges.
Project history
Technically, MPlayerShell launches MPlayer as a background process, captures its output, and presents a new application interface while keeping a command-line interface that is essentially identical to MPlayer. It adds explicit full-screen and float-on-top menu commands, tunes MPlayer's cache and threading defaults for large video, and exposes the mps executable when installed through Homebrew.
How it is used
Its package-manager niche is therefore a wrapper niche rather than a codec or playback engine niche. Users install mplayershell when they want MPlayer's command-line power with a more native OS X visual shell, while still depending on the underlying MPlayer family for actual playback.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: yellow
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
Risk classifier
yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime
Why
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
Signals
- text:shell
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mps | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.9.3
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mplayershell |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.3 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell |
| Repository | https://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix92%
mps
nix profile install nixpkgs#mps- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Mps
Scoop92%
extras/mps
scoop install extras/mps- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Mps
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation