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Tips, Tricks, Arguments to make MPV work more like VLC in a script? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by AstroLightz@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] who@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think mpd is better suited to your purpose than any GUI media player.

Note that despite its network support, it can run and be controlled locally. Cantata uses it, for example.