mpv player doesn't use my defaults

[kflak]

Hi,

Getting a weird behavior from mpv when using LilyPlayer: For some reason it defaults to using the internal soundcard, even when all other mpv use gets routed through my external one via jack. In my mpv.conf I have

fs=yes
audio-device=jack 
vo=gpu

If I remove the config-dir flag in this function:

  vim.api.nvim_buf_call(lilyPlayer.bufnr, function() 
    fn.execute("term mpv --msg-level=cplayer=no,ffmpeg=no " ..
      "--loop --config-dir=/tmp/ " .. file)
    fn.execute('stopinsert')
  end)

everything seems to work normally, except that everything gets mixed to mono and routed into the left speaker. Adding the --audio-channels=stereo flag still results in mono, but at least it gets routed to both speakers.

So I guess the main problem here is that mpv doesn't source the user's config. Is there a specific reason for using /tmp instead?

EDIT: thinking a bit further on this: would it be an idea to expose the mpv flags to the user through a g: variable?

[martineausimon]

Hi,

Thanks for that feedback. I originally pointed the MPV config to /tmp to intentionally use the default mpv config (maybe /dev/null is a better way to do this). This is needed in case the user config contains different mappings, which can cause conflicts with the plugin.

But in any case I find the idea of being able to customize the mpv flags interesting, thank you for this suggestion ! I just added this variable to the setup() function :

require('nvls').setup({
  player = {
    options = {
      mpv_flags = "--msg-level=cplayer=no,ffmpeg=no --loop --config-dir=/dev/null"
    }
  }
})

Let me know if it works better for you !

Simon

[martineausimon]

I've just change mpv_flags to a table, I find it easier to config :

require('nvls').setup({
  player = {
    options = {
      mpv_flags = {
        "--msg-level=cplayer=no,ffmpeg=no",
        "--loop",
        "--config-dir=/dev/null"
      }
    }
  }
})

[kflak]

This is fantastic! I am also very happy that this allows me to choose in my config whether or not to loop playback. Most of the time I don't want that, so this kills numerous birds with one stone.

Oh, and thanks for finding a way to get nvim-cmp working. I didn't know about cmp-dictionary before. A total gamechanger!