Alex Vong <[email protected]> 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.) > Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> writes: > >> 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
