diff --git a/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/tasks/virtualenv/packages.yml b/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/tasks/virtualenv/packages.yml
index 739214fd..344014cb 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/tasks/virtualenv/packages.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/tasks/virtualenv/packages.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
       - sox
       - libsox-fmt-all
       - flac
-      - vlc
+      - mpv
       - libxslt1-dev
       - libopenblas-dev
       - pkg-config
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
       - mpg123
       - sox
       - flac
-      - vlc
+      - mpv
       - openblas-serial
       - pkgconf-pkg-config
       - libicu-devel
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
       - mpg123
       - sox
       - flac
-      - vlc
+      - mpv
       - libopenblas_serial-devel
       - portaudio-devel
     state: "{{ ovos_installer_uninstall }}"
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
       - mpg123
       - sox
       - flac
-      - vlc
+      - mpv
       - libxslt
       - openblas
     state: "{{ ovos_installer_uninstall }}"
diff --git a/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/templates/virtualenv/core-requirements.txt.j2 b/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/templates/virtualenv/core-requirements.txt.j2
index 9b99bae3..92847b63 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/templates/virtualenv/core-requirements.txt.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/templates/virtualenv/core-requirements.txt.j2
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 ovos-audio[extras]
+ovos-audio-plugin-mpv
 ovos-audio-plugin-simple
 {% if (ansible_architecture == "x86_64") or (ansible_architecture == "aarch64") %}
 ovos-audio-transformer-plugin-ggwave
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@ ovos-PHAL-plugin-alsa
 ovos-PHAL-plugin-system
 ovos-PHAL-plugin-ipgeo
 ovos-plugin-manager[offline]
-ovos-plugin-vlc
 ovos-translate-server-plugin
 ovos-stt-plugin-vosk
 {% if (ansible_architecture == "x86_64") or (ansible_architecture == "aarch64") %}
diff --git a/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/templates/virtualenv/satellite-requirements.txt.j2 b/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/templates/virtualenv/satellite-requirements.txt.j2
index 06003d58..ddaff01d 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/templates/virtualenv/satellite-requirements.txt.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/ovos_installer/templates/virtualenv/satellite-requirements.txt.j2
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+ovos-audio-plugin-mpv
 ovos-audio-plugin-simple
 ovos-backend-client
 ovos-classifiers