Re: [emms-help] No mpv support for now

[Alex Vong]

Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:

> Today I had a look at adding mpv as a player to Emms.
>
> According to the mpv developers, the right way to use mpv would be via
> it's IPC communication mechanism using JSON. However, the version of mpv
> which comes on my system is too old (0.3.4), the version with the stable
> command-line option to do the communication (--input-ipc-server) was
> introduced in 0.17.0, and on my system I can't even compile that version
> since my libavcodec is too old.
>
> In other words, I can't add mpv support at this time.
>
> Too bad.

If you have time, you can try install GNU Guix on top of your base
distro and install Guix's mpv. This is how I run Debian stable while
still get latest version of software I used (best from both world!).

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