Re: [emms-help] [PATCH] mpv player

[Petteri Hintsanen]

On 16.09.2017 18:37, Yoni Rabkin wrote:
> Which version of mpv is currently being widely distributed? I know that
> previous versions (for instance the version I have) don't yet support
> the --input-ipc-server command. This also means that at the moment I
> can't test this patch.

Unfortunately I have no idea which versions are being used.  It seems 
that mpv is a moving target, releasing new version every few months. 
The project recommends to either build from sources, or use third party 
distro packages instead of official distro packages.

This machine (Debian stable) has 0.23.0, which is relatively new.  Well, 
Debian 9 was released last June.

It looks like that in version 0.17.0 they changed the option from 
--input-unix-socket to --input-ipc-server

    https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases/tag/v0.17.0

Does your version accept --input-unix-socket?

Of course I could add a check that if version is earlier than 0.17.0, 
use --input-unix-socket, otherwise go with --input-ipc-server.

> I would also be happy for a documentation patch
> which, among other things, describes what is the minimum version of mpv
> that would work.

This is certainly doable.

Regards,
Petteri