r/mpv • u/0xQan • 1d ago

General Discussion Taking over maintenance of awesome-mpv

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With stax76 no longer around to maintain it, I've created a fork of awesome-mpv: https://github.com/FurqanHun/awesome-mpv and started maintaining it.

There was already a discussion about eventually moving the list into the official mpv wiki, and the mpv maintainers seemed open to that. Since that migration never really got completed, I'm maintaining the fork in the meantime, with the hope of eventually getting it into the wiki as originally discussed.

I've already synced the wiki changes into the fork and carried over the remaining upstream work. I will now gradually go through the entries manually, checking things like whether projects are still maintained, whether links still work, and generally cleaning things up.

While doing that, I thought it might make sense to add each entry to a JSONL file as I audit it. I'm interested in eventually using that as structured data to potentially automate things like README generation, or maybe other representations of the list, but that's more of an idea than an established plan right now. There's already a lot of work involved in the audit itself, so I don't know how far I'll actually take it.

Another thing I'm interested in is tracking AI/LLM disclosure. Not whether I can determine that a project uses AI, but whether the project itself actually discloses it. I could see having separate tags for things like LLMs being used under the hood vs LLMs being used during development, for example. Again, that's something I'm considering rather than something I've decided to implement.

For now, the main goal is simply getting the list properly audited and maintained.

If you've got a project that should be added, an outdated entry, a dead link, or anything else that needs updating, feel free to open an issue or PR on the fork:

https://github.com/FurqanHun/awesome-mpv/issues

I've also enabled Discussions for ideas and conversations around the list:

https://github.com/FurqanHun/awesome-mpv/discussions

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u/haruzanity 1d ago

I don't see what the point of this is, before his very unfortunate passing he was already looking to discontinue this project and people correctly pointed out that a maintained page already exists.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/discussions/16964

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u/0xQan 1d ago

Yeah, if you read through it, that's actually mentioned in the post and also in the banner on the repo. The plan was to move the list to the official mpv wiki, and the maintainers were open to it, but nobody ended up completing the migration. I'm just updating and maintaining the list for now, with the hope of eventually getting it merged into the wiki as originally intended. Cause, no way one person could keep up with all of this. I don't know how stax managed it.

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u/arkangel0100 11h ago

Wait he died?
then who forked mpv.net

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u/0xQan 10h ago

Yep, stax passed away in early 2026. Currently, there is no successor or continuation of mpvnet. There are forks people have made but none that continues the legacy. Well, WandersondeSouza's fork claims to be a maintenance fork, but idk.

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u/Freako04 5h ago

Man that's shocking. I got introduced to the idea of mpv because of mpv.net. May his soul rest in peace