Install the player on Linux
Mydia Player is distributed as a Flatpak. The Flatpak bundles its own media stack, so nothing else needs installing.
Stable
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --from mydia https://flatpak.mydia.dev/mydia.flatpakrepo
flatpak install mydia dev.mydia.player
flatpak run dev.mydia.player
Updates arrive with flatpak update, alongside everything else on your system.
Beta
Beta tracks prereleases. It is the same application under a different remote, so pick one channel or the other rather than adding both.
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --from mydia-beta https://flatpak.mydia.dev/mydia-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak install mydia-beta dev.mydia.player
To move back to stable:
flatpak uninstall dev.mydia.player
flatpak remote-delete mydia-beta
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --from mydia https://flatpak.mydia.dev/mydia.flatpakrepo
flatpak install mydia dev.mydia.player
Tarball
Every release also carries mydia-player-linux-vX.Y.Z.tar.gz for systems
without Flatpak. Unlike the Flatpak, it links your system libmpv, so install
that first or the binary will not start.
# Debian and Ubuntu
sudo apt install libmpv2
# Fedora
sudo dnf install mpv-libs
# Arch
sudo pacman -S mpv
Then unpack the archive and run ./mydia-player.
Troubleshooting
If the application starts and immediately exits, run it from a terminal. A message naming a missing shared library means you are on the tarball without libmpv installed, and the Flatpak is the fix.
If video plays but a particular file shows a black screen, the codec extension may not have installed. Check for it and add it if missing: