embeddable libmpv (minimalistic)?

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I am using mpv quite a lot; basically for everything related to multimedia.

On my current setup, getting libplacebo was actually a bit difficult, but now it is working again. Wish we could have a super-lean variant of mpv too, such as "core-mpv". Anyway, that's not the main issue here.

I am also using libui-ng, which works on linux (via gtk) and on windows. It's quite small, but the benefit here is that it is super-fast and trivial to get GUIs up and working.

My idea was to also have this in a minimalistic GUI, that basically is just a minimal front-end over mpv. I assume for this I have to embed mpv somehow. I know only very little C, so I am a slow learner, but given enough time, perhaps I can have a minimal mpv on windows (mpv.exe works fine, so mpv works on windows too, I tested this some time ago already).

Do we have something like an embeddable libmpv? Something that we can call API-wise and it would just play a video? Naturally we may have to embed that window in, say, that gtk-widget or whatever libui-ng would be using internally. Has anyone had this idea and perhaps implemented something? Perhaps even in simpler languages such as python, lua or crystal? I am not even sure how to go about this process either. Would current mpv work for this? Is there anyone on the mpv team that has a similar idea, e. g. embedded use of mpv? Could also be for mpv via the browser, for instance. I can play .mp4 files fine but older .avi files I can not play in the browser, but mpv plays it fine on my local system, so the browser is limited, but I don't understand why it is limited if it could, in theory, just shell out to mpv. Anyway these were just some semi-random thoughts I had.