Re: [emms-help] mpv player alternative with json-ipc

[Yoni Rabkin]

Mike Kazantsev <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:00:17 +0500
> Mike Kazantsev <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Pushed new backend option now to mpv-json-ipc branch, with support for
>> both older mpv versions with one-pid-per-track + --input-file operation
>> and newer versions running as "mpv --idle".
>> 
>> Tried to address all the feedback and suggestions
>> (thanks again, let me know if I missed any).
>> 
>> Guess I'll leave it there until next release, and maybe ping about way
>> ahead for it afterwads, fixing any issues that might pop-up there in the
>> meantime.
>
> Did promise to send ping-mail after 5.0 release, here it is.

It works fine with my mpv 0.3.4. I currently don't have a machine with a
newer version of mpv to test, but I'll be setting one up Real Soon Now
(TM).

Since it supports both the old and new mpv and provides an interface for
interesting new features, it should be included in master so that
everyone can hammer on it. I had Zhang's emms-player-mpv.el set up and
in moving to your version I didn't need to change anything; it doesn't
even break existing setups thanks to the auto-detection of the mpv
version (smart).

Please feel free to merge this into master so that more people can
hammer on it.

Before you do, please change the dependence on the cl package to the
newer cl-lib (clean namespace), and make sure that emms-mpv-ipc-proc is
defined before it is referenced.

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