[Solved] Re: mpv flags slightly broken

[Bob Newell]

Ok, what happened between mpv versions is this.  In my emms startup code, I had emms-player-mpv-ipc-method set to nil.  This means emms detects the input method.

In the previous mpv version this came back as 'ipc-socket and everything was fine.  In the current mpv version it came back as 'file which wasn't fine at all and couldn't work as in emms startup I set command line optons for 'ipc-socket.

However merely changing 'nil' to 'ipc-socket' (for emms-plaer-mpv-ipc-method) didn't work either and resulted in mpv never even starting (from emms).

So I had to create ~/.config/emms/mpv.conf and add the line

input-ipc-server=/home/bnewell/.emacs.d/emms/mpv-ipc.sock

which is specific to my configuration --- the path to the socket is actually what's required here.

So no, this is not an emms problem per se.  No bug but mpv now works differently so I had to slightly change my emms setup.

Mahalo to everyone for their advice and ideas.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 5:30 PM Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> wrote:

I'll try the various suggestions and post back.  Hadn't thought to try -no-config.

mpv on its own plays perfectly, but then again that's not using sockets to communicate which of course complicates the issue.

Thanks everyone for the ideas.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 3:48 PM Aleksas Tunikas <mail@aleksas.ru> wrote:

Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

> This is surely not an emms bug per se, but somehow the way emms needs to interact with mpv may have changed.  I haven't as yet been
> able to trace this down any further.  Of course, there could be a new problem strictly in mpv which emms can't fix.  I don't know at this
> time.

Ok sorry I was replying to Mike message without understanding clearly
what you having. Let me update everything and test it out, yep
everything work. I am pasting my MPV parameters, maybe it will work. I
drifted away slightly from the problem and don't remember the concrete
steps it took me to solve mine. But I keep it in the back of my head and
report back when it pops.

[INS] [DEL] String: --quiet
[INS] [DEL] String: --really-quiet
[INS] [DEL] String: --no-audio-display
[INS] [DEL] String: --no-config

Think I added --no-config here myself, as new MPV version was
overlapping some settings I manually defined with what EMMS using to
manipulate it or somethnig.

Hope it helps and merry Christmas,
Aleksas
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Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

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Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i