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

[Yoni Rabkin]

Ian Dunn <address@hidden> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin writes:
>
>> Alex Vong <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've just found <https://github.com/dochang/emms-player-mpv/>, which
>>> adds mpv support to emms. I haven't tried it before though.
>>
>> This is something that we can do as well, but uses an obsolete method of
>> communicating with mpv. The right way is to use --input-ipc-server, but
>> a more recent version of mpv is needed for it.
>>
>> The right thing for Emms going forward to do is to support mpv's
>> --input-ipc-server. I'll try to get guix running so that I can write
>> that (unless someone beats me to it of course.)
>>
>
> There's also this: https://github.com/momomo5717/emms-player-simple-mpv
>
> It uses the JSON IPC interface, but something about it messes with the EMMS 
> play time display.

I haven't reviewed the code beyond skimming over it, but the JSON IPC
(--input-ipc-server) is the right way to do it. We'll eventually end up
having something similar to that in Emms.

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