Open foss- opened 11 months ago
Are you sure you have the executable path set correctly? I had the wrong location set so it didn't play. There was a play issue before 0.4.1 where you had to click play button, but that's been fixed.
MPV
resides in application folder. I select the app and confirm with Open
in Settins > MPV executable path
but no tracks play.
Supposed to select the binary rather than the app(.zip). If installed by homebrew, the binary would be /usr/local/bin/mpv
Did not install via homebrew. Have mpv.app in Applications folder and that is where I directed the path to. Is that incorrect? Persisting in 0.5.0.
Did not install via homebrew. Have mpv.app in Applications folder and that is where I directed the path to. Is that incorrect? Persisting in 0.5.0.
It is wrong. The application is actually a zip. You need to point to a binary
Can you share steps? I visit https://mpv.io/installation/ which following the first mac link brings us to https://laboratory.stolendata.net/~djinn/mpv_osx/
There I download 2023-Jul-24 13:02 mpv-0.36.0.tar.gz
When I unpack that I receive the mpv.app file, which is a binary. Now where does a zip file come into play? Also how is a zip file an application? Maybe there is a misudnerstanding on my side?
Can you share steps? I visit https://mpv.io/installation/ which following the first mac link brings us to https://laboratory.stolendata.net/~djinn/mpv_osx/
There I download 2023-Jul-24 13:02 mpv-0.36.0.tar.gz
When I unpack that I receive the mpv.app file, which is a binary. Now where does a zip file come into play? Also how is a zip file an application? Maybe there is a misudnerstanding on my side?
Yes, the mpv.app IS a zip. You can somehow unzip it.
As far as how to download a binary, for me, I uses brew.
brew install mpv
then type
whereis mpv
For me, the result is mpv: /usr/local/bin/mpv /usr/local/share/man/man1/mpv.1
And then in feishin, point the binary path to /usr/local/bin/mpv. You might need some tricks to specify the path(shift + command + g)
Great to hear this works via brew.
Do you know if this should also work with a download from https://mpv.io/installation/? As indicated earlier, I download and unpack the binary and point Feishin at the location of the binary in the applications folder.
While the applications folder lists mpv.app
after setting that location in Feishin it shows as mpv.app.zip
.
Unsure if that should work. I can't play any audio at all currently.
This is the settings:
It is interesting that after switching to another tab e.g. Hotkeys and back to Playback the executable path has changed to var/folders/lr/long_string_here
.
Unsure what the expected behavior is.
Great to hear this works via brew.
Do you know if this should also work with a download from https://mpv.io/installation/? As indicated earlier, I download and unpack the binary and point Feishin at the location of the binary in the applications folder.
While the applications folder lists
mpv.app
after setting that location in Feishin it shows asmpv.app.zip
.Unsure if that should work. I can't play any audio at all currently.
This is the settings:
It is interesting that after switching to another tab e.g. Hotkeys and back to Playback the executable path has changed to
var/folders/lr/long_string_here
.Unsure what the expected behavior is.
The mvp.app is not a binary but a zip like .apk
files. I've met the same problem you mentioned also and consider it impossible for an early version app to support this complex feature so I migrated to binary that brew downloads.
As it seems there is no easy solution in sight to point Feishin at the mpv app tried the brew route. After installing received the same output for whereis mpv
: mpv: /usr/local/bin/mpv /usr/local/share/man/man1/mpv.1
Then pointed Feishin at /usr/local/bin/mpv
but after a restart still no audio will play and setting shows:
It seems that you are not pointing to the right path. Would you check if the binary is in /usr/local/cellar/mpv/0.36.0/bin/mpv? The path is strange
/usr/local/cellar/mpv/0.36.0/bin/mpv
indeed holds mpv file while /usr/local/bin/mpv
is only a simlink.
In that case I could not figure out any better solution. Sorry for that
I would suggest Further instructions in the directions, was able to get music playing after searching and finding this issue. I was trying to specify the app like @foss- as they pointed out the instructions say to just go get the app from the link and don't elaborate on further extracting it.
Fyi, it didn't work at first, after restarting the app once or twice after the fix it started working, so hopefully you've also got it cooperating
the same applies to W10 and mpv installed via scoop
For anyone else still wondering, it took me a while even after reading this topic. So I will write step-by-step the clear instructions, to ease someone else's life (Mac OS only!):
1) Download and install Feishin from releases
2) Open terminal and run brew install mpv
to install mpv from homebrew (it will take a while)
3) Keep the terminal open and run whereis mpv
to find the path to mpv, it will return 2 paths but none of them is the one we are going to use. We must use the results to get the homebrew root path and then deduce the right mpv path.
For example, if the first path returned by whereis
is /opt/homebrew/bin/mpv
, your homebrew root is /opt/homebrew
. Then the path to mpv is found adding /Cellar/mpv/<version>/bin/mpv
. In my case the final result was /opt/homebrew/Cellar/mpv/0.37.0_1/bin/mpv
4) Make sure the deduced path is found in Finder (Cmd+Shift+G
and paste the path) and that the mpv
file is identified as exec
by your Mac (screenshot below)
5) Open Feishin and add that path to mpv in the welcome screen. If you already added it, you can add change it clicking the Hamburger menu to the left --> Settings --> Playback --> Mpv executable path
.
6) After doing that, open your Activity Monitor, find Feishin in the list and Force quit it. Wait it disappears from the processes, open it again and Force quit again, and repeat at least 3 times in total.
7) Now your Feishin should play flawlessly. Enjoy!
I can confirm that I couldn't get this to work until I selected the full path to the brew cellar version of the binary. Pointing to a symlink isn't enough. For whatever reason, that doesn't work. For version 0.37.0_1
the path is: /usr/local/Cellar/mpv/0.37.0_1/bin/mpv
.
To get there in the file browser, you need to navigate to your root Mac OS drive, and then enable hidden folders in Finder with SHIFT-CMD-.
. Then you'll see /usr
and you can navigate to the binary. Plays great now after a restart.
the same applies to W10 and mpv installed via
scoop
I can confirm the same with W11 and MPV installed via chocolatey
C:\Users\bagusnl>where mpv
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\mpv.install\tools\mpv.com
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\mpv.install\tools\mpv.exe
C:\Users\bagusnl>mpv --version
mpv 1c9c2f5 Copyright © 2000-2023 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
built on Dec 10 2023 12:02:37
libplacebo version: v6.338.0-62-g52314e0-dirty
FFmpeg version: N-112938-g12e25af7a
FFmpeg library versions:
libavutil 58.32.100
libavcodec 60.35.100
libavformat 60.18.100
libswscale 7.6.100
libavfilter 9.14.100
libswresample 4.13.100
note: tried overriding the install path with both the COM wrapper and direct exe, both wont work.
Expected Behavior
Tracks should be played.
Current Behavior
When using
Audio Player > MPV
and playing a track, the track never plays. Tried MP3 and AAC files.Possible Solution
Using
Audio player > Web
does play tracks.Your Environment