I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and figured I should warn others.
As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support. Those of us stuck with older remotes (or in my case I use irexec to do other things with the remote besides sending keypresses to whatever has focus) there's no longer any way to control mpv any more. Their answer is to use evdev, but I can't as I use irexec: "Very unclean code, the inability to test it, and availability of supposedly better methods." [1] I also noticed that mplayer2 is gone from the tree, which is too bad, I'd much prefer it without updates versus a player that can't be controlled with a remote. I guess I'm going to have to switch back to mplayer and hope whatever issue I had with it way back when has been resolved. Or maybe just go back to xbmc's internal player. I dunno. mpv was a good player but it's going to become rather useless for quite a few people. Dan [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/1866
