# 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.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mplayershell
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mplayershell
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mps
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mp/mps/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/mps
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mps.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mplayershell
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9.3
- **Source summary:** Improved visual experience for MPlayer on macOS
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mps (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.9.3
## 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

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mplayershell>
- <https://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell>


## Security Notes

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - mps: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mp/mps/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - extras/mps: installed executable or alias match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mps.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mplayershell.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mplayershell.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph