Flatsonar

mpv

by smplayer-dev

a free, open source, and cross-platform media player

Dangerous permissions Unverified publisher GPL-2.0+ AND LGPL-2.0-or-later v0.33.1
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About

Mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Special input URL types are available to read input from a variety of sources other than disk files. Depending on platform, a variety of different video and audio output methods are supported. Features: - Drag and drop playlist - Loading external configuration files

Permissions

4 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • unrestricted access to the session D-Bus (all your running apps)
    --socket=session-bus
  • full access to your entire file system
    --filesystem=host
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • dconf: all GNOME settings
    --talk-name=ca.desrt.dconf
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • screensaver inhibit
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver
  • sets environment variable DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR
    --env=DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR=.config/dconf
  • sets environment variable LC_NUMERIC
    --env=LC_NUMERIC=C

Who publishes this

Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.

  • info.smplayer.Test claims the domain smplayer.info; only its owner can prove that
    publisher:namespace
  • same name as io.mpv.Mpv on Flathub but from a different repository
    publisher:lookalike

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.