Alex Vong <[email protected]> writes: > Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> 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!).
I went ahead and tried that because it sounds great. Unfortunately on my trisquel install my /tmp doesn't have enough room for guix to compile anything successfully. I'll come back to this on a different machine, or if I figure out how to get guix to compile somewhere other than /tmp. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" _______________________________________________ Emms-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emms-help
