Re: [emms-help] Disable mpv "--no-audio-display" while playing

[Mohamed Aziz Knani]

Mike Kazantsev writes:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:19:07 +0100
> Mohamed Aziz Knani <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I apologize if my question isn't clear, but I want to be toggle
>> "--no-audio-display" while the mpv process is running, i.e is there a
>> command that lets me do that without having to restart mpv. If not a
>> quick restart of the mpv process shouldn't be a a big of an issue.
>
> Hey,
>
> Yeah, you can generally change any mpv options via something like:
>
>   (emms-player-mpv-cmd `(set_property options/ontop yes))
>
> And they mostly available outside of "options/" namespace as properties
> ("property-list" returns full list of top-level ones).
>
> Two useful properties for what I think you want to do might be "vid"
> and "audio-display".
>
> To disable displaying cover art for current and all future tracks,
> hiding the window immediately (if any):
>
>   (emms-player-mpv-cmd `(set_property vid 0))
>
> (vid corresponds to --vid option, where cover art would be --vid=1)
>
> To only disable "audio-display" option for future played tracks, you can
> also set "audio-display" to "no" that way, but setting vid to 0 will
> effectively do same thing too.
>
> If you have --force-window=yes (or "immediate"), you'd probably also
> need to do "(set_property force-window no)" to disable empty window
> hanging around.
>
> And if you want to have some logic to only disable window if it is an
> album art, can probably check "albumart" on tracks:
>
>   (emms-player-mpv-cmd-prog
>     `(get_property track-list/1/albumart)
>     (message "Album art present: %s" (if mpv-data "yes" "no")))
>
> (though maybe checking track-list/count and iterating through these
> might be more robust for more complicated media container files)
>
> Note that it's all mpv features, and not really related to how emms
> interacts with it, so more in-depth info should be available on mpv
> site, docs, MLs, repo script examples, etc.
>
> Cheers!

Wow this is so cool! Thanks Mike.

-- 
Mohamed Aziz Knani
http://www.aziz.tn/

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