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Install mplayershell with Homebrew, Nix, scoop

Improved visual experience for MPlayer on macOS. Version 0.9.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mplayershell

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mps

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mp/mps/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install extras/mps

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/mps.json · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Improved visual experience for MPlayer on macOS

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.

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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 11 platform targets.
  • Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

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

CommandKindExposureNote
mpscliglobal executable

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 generated2026-07-08
manager version0.9.3
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected0.9.3

https://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:mplayershell
Version0.9.3
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mplayershell
Homepagehttps://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell
Repositoryhttps://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell
Upstream docshttps://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell#readme
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/lisamelton/MPlayerShell/archive/refs/tags/0.9.3.tar.gz
Dependenciesmplayer
Bottleavailable (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namemplayershell
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Requirements
  • macos
  • xcode
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

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
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mp/mps/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop92%

extras/mps

scoop install extras/mps
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Mps
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mps.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • mplayerRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.

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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.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment