I have a music script I’m working on that uses VLC as its backend for playing music in the background. However, I was looking around the MPV CLI arguments, and there’s quite a few things there that would work for my script.

However, I have a few issues with MPV before implementing this addition:

  1. I don’t want a window to appear whenever I launch MPV.
  2. I want MPV to remember certain properties, like volume.
  3. I don’t want the CLI info displaying in the terminal. This would cause issues as now MPV will close when the terminal closes. I need this to run in the background, like VLC.

I’ve kinda managed to solve 1. by using --no-vid, but I haven’t figured out 2. or 3. yet. Does anyone know any tips, tricks, arguments, etc. to get the desired experience I want with MPV?

It’s a Python program, so I am using subprocess currently.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m targeting a Linux release

    Your 3, I’m not sure to understand what you want to do.

    I don’t want the active MPV file info in the terminal as if I CTRL+C, CTRL+D, or close the terminal, MPV will close too. So I want it to run as a background process (like how you can minimize VLC to the tray)

    I don’t know if using something like nohup mpv <some file> & would work. I guess I could use pkill mpv to close it then.

    I saw mpv has a --quiet option. What does that do?