On Monday, 29 September 2025 06:00:40 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Michael wrote: > >> I'll guess mpv is trying to play a stream and it finds some inconsistency > >> in the data chunks of the stored stream. I can think of two ways to ask > >> it to shut up and not bother you. Check the man page for mpv, it > >> mentions: > >> > >> --msg-level=<module1=level1,module2=level2,...> > >> > >> where you can set the level as "no" to silence it completely, or specify > >> the module which is causing all these STSC messages and just silence > >> that alone. > >> > >> The second potential entry is the path to store its log. Perhaps if you > >> set this to /dev/null it will not print anything out. > >> > >> --log-file=<path> > >> > >> Once you find something which works on a terminal, try modifying your > >> ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file options to achieve the same. > >> > >> You may find this useful: > >> > >> https://deepwiki.com/hooke007/mpv_doc-CN/2.1-configuration-options > > > > I'm going to try the /dev/null option. If I can't fix what it is > > complaining about, I'll just shut it up. ROFL > > > > Works for me. ;-) > > > > Thanks. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > I tried the /dev/null option for mpv and the file is back and already > north of 1Gbs.
Can you please show the content of your ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf > Either it isn't mpv, seems to me it is, then what else > can I do to stop this file from getting so large? I might add, I have > other options in the mpv file and they work. So, I'm dealing with the > right file at least. > > Any other ideas? I'm thinking I need to do something with sddm itself. > It does seem to be the one writing to this file. My google searches > turned up nothing like this. Is this a Gentoo thing? And maybe just > affecting me for some reason???? > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) As I understand it, sddm captures what applications are reporting within the desktop session. I'm thinking if you silence the application, it will stop printing logs. Did you try to find out in the terminal which mpv module is responsible for these errors you see in the sddm log and silence that one specifically, or silence them all if you are not bothered to catch any problems reported by mpv? For example when I silence messages from the vo/gpu and osd/libass my terminal output is *very* quiet.
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