Re: [emms-help] No mpv support for now

[Ian Dunn]

Yoni Rabkin writes:

> Alex Vong <address@hidden> 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.)
>

There's also this: https://github.com/momomo5717/emms-player-simple-mpv

It uses the JSON IPC interface, but something about it messes with the EMMS 
play time display.

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Ian Dunn