EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-MPV(1)

📦 version 3.8.18, in ubuntu stonking

🎬 EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-MPV(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section of the vibe, and today's main character is edbrowse-plugin-mpv 💅 she's a little helper script, she's lowkey iconic, and she does exactly one job and does it flawlessly. no notes.

🌸 NAME 🌸

edbrowse-plugin-mpv — play a media stream for edbrowse using mpv 🎵

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

edbrowse-plugin-mpv [mpv-option...]  file-or-url

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, edbrowse-plugin-mpv is a helper that gets invoked by edbrowse(1) through the plugin config fragments that are installed in /usr/share/edbrowse/plugins. 🫶 it's not normally run by hand — it's giving backstage crew, not front of house, yk?

the script passes all its arguments on to mpv(1). literally all of them, no gatekeeping. 👑

and here's the cute part: if the environment variable PLUGINHEADERS is set, its value is handed to mpv as --http-header-fields, so that cookies and other headers edbrowse used to reach the resource are reused for the media request. it's giving sharing is caring, and honestly? obsessed. 🔥

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

  • PLUGINHEADERS — HTTP headers to forward to mpv, as set by edbrowse. 🌈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution. 💖

no cap, if you're reading this trying to figure out how to run it manually, bestie... it's not normally run by hand. let edbrowse do the driving. 🚗✨

and that's the whole page, periodt 💅 this was edbrowse-plugin-mpv, from the General Commands Manual, brought to you by edbrowse 3.8.18 on 2026-08-17 🎀 mwah, go stream something 🍓🧚

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