Re: [emms-help] [PATCH] mpv player

[Yoni Rabkin]

Understood.

I don't have a github account. If you have a github account, can you
please ask the author to contact me, or get their email so that I can
write to them about it?


Petteri Hintsanen <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> Regarding the mpv patch, I don't think it makes sense to pursue it any
> further.  Namely, there is already a quite solid implementation
> available at
>
>   https://github.com/momomo5717/emms-player-simple-mpv
>
> It is also available from MELPA via package.el.
>
> I've been using it for some time now, and it works very well.  Besides
> having tons of features, it has a particularly nice property of reusing
> the same mpv process, while my patch kills mpv when switching between
> playlist entries.  This causes irritating clicks on playback, at least
> on my system.
>
> The code is licensed under GPL3.  I have no idea how difficult it would
> be to incorporate emms-player-simple-mpv to EMMS proper, though.
>
> Thanks,
> Petteri.
>

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