How to Install MPV 0.23.0 Media Player in Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

   MPV is a free and open-source media player forked from MPlayer2. It was started to modernize MPlayer by adding modern features, and removing unmaintainable code and dropping support for very old systems.

MPV 0.23.0 changelog

• Features
• vo_rpi: partially undeprecate
• Added
• vo_opengl: hwdec_cuda: Support P016 output surfaces
• Removed
• charset_conv: drop enca and libguess support in favor of uchardet
• vf_vdpaurb: remove this filter in favor of --hwdec=vdpau-copy

     Options and Commands

• Added
• TOOLS/autoload: allow disabling through script-opts
• demux, stream: add --access-references to prevent opening referenced files
• Deprecated
• options: deprecate codec family selection in --vd/--ad
• Removed
• macOS: remove --fs-black-out-screens
• options: remove deprecated sub-option handling for --vo and --ao
• Fixes and Minor Enhancements
• Windows: window styles improvements (allow minimizing borderless/fullscreen window)
• ad_spdif: Fix crash when spdif muxer is not available
• audio: fix --audio-stream-silence with ao_alsa
• audio: fix --audio-stream-silence with ao_wasapi
• build: drop build-time dependency on Perl
• build: support linking ANGLE (previously loaded dynamically)
• d3d11va: unconditionally load D3D DLLs
• demux_mkv: fix seeking in some broken files
• hwdec_cuda: allow building without CUDA SDK (load CUDA dynamically)
• macOS: fix dropping of URLs containing query strings on the window
• macOS: fullscreen refactoring
• macOS: support append file to paylist on drop
• macOS: update the menu and remove conflicting “Quit & remember position” item
• osc: don't hide playlist buttons, just disable
• osc: fix possible race condition in right timecode
• osc: topbar: use same styles as bottombar
• player: don't print format detection error when aborting loading
• vdpau: fix vaapi probing if libvdpau-va-gl1 is present
• video: use demuxer-signaled duration for last video frame

See release notes for full details

Installation instructions: 
 
We can add this PPA to Ubuntu Operating  Systems and install MPV Media Player with few easy commands.

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/mpv-tests $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install mpv

 (Optional) To remove the PPA And remove mpv via command:

$ sudo apt-get remove mpv && sudo apt-get autoremove