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I am excited to share a lightweight yet powerful 4K video player that I built using AutoIt and the MPV engine. This project is the first step in my efforts to find a viable way to migrate the engine of my zPlayer from the legacy winmm.dll to the modern libmpv-2.dll which has hardware acceleration and supports high resolutions. I was especially interested in finding a way to play 4K video files. I have high expectations for @MattyD's efforts to bring WinRT functionalities to AutoIt. In the meantime, I looked into libvlc.dll and libmpv-2.dll, but frankly, I found both to be very difficult to learn. I was inclined to use MPV because it seemed oriented toward developers, whereas VLC was for users. This player has only rudimentary functions, but it uses most of the basic MPV commands and functions to support my migration. Any comments or suggestions would be most welcome. PS: I started out with libmpv-2.dll and I found that it was almost impossible for me to implement what I wanted with dll. After several weeks of struggle with dll, I turned to mpv.exe and I am happy to report that I have accompished what I wanted. mpv.exe can be downloaded from sourceforge.net . Download the latest version of mpv-x86_64-YYYYMMDD-git-xxxxxxx.7z file, extract mpv.exe only, and copy it to the script directory. - June 27, 2016 File updated on August 10, 2026 The latest version can be downloaded HERE.