question/problem re: smplayer and mpv

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/17/2015 11:37 AM, jd1008 wrote:
>
>
> On 06/17/2015 12:26 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On 06/17/2015 11:05 AM, jd1008 wrote:
>>> I tried to post this problem to the smplayer forum, but have received
>>> no answer yet.
>>>
>>> I tried to subscribe to the mpv mailing list, and I have yet
>>> to receive an email to confirm that I wish to subscribe to the list.
>>> With mpv, I tried several times, but still it seems that their
>>> subscription 'engine' is not working.
>>>
>>> So, the question is:
>>>
>>> I want to use mpv as the player that smplayer will launch to play
>>> a file or a url.
>>>
>>> smplayer is popping a banner, saying:
>>>
>>> Ooops  something wrong happened.
>>> I click on show log, and this is what it says:
>>>
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/mpv -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -lavdopts threads=4
>>> -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo xv:adaptor=0 -ao pulse
>>> -nokeepaspect -autosync 100 -mc 0 -dr -double -input
>>> nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 39845933
>>> -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0
>>> -ass-font-scale 1 -noflip-hebrew -ass-styles
>>> /home/jd/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -subfont-autoscale 0
>>> -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0
>>> -aid 0 -subpos 100 -volume 25 -cache 2048 -osdlevel 0 -idx -vf-add pp
>>> -autoq 6 -noslices -channels 2 -af
>>> volnorm=1,scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max
>>> 777 /sdb3/My_Music/Faun/Faun - Schrei es in die Winde-tek5KKnPfaM.mp4
>>>
>>>
>>> Error parsing commandline option noquiet: option not found
>>>
>>>
>>> Exiting... (Fatal error)
>>>
>>>
>>> So, where are all these command args configured?
>>> I do not see these in any file in ~/.mpv
>>> nor in ~/.mplayer
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanx for any tips about this.
>>
>> mpv defaults are stored in the system-wide /etc/mpv directory and may
>> be overridden by files in your ~/.config/mpv directory.
>>
>> "noquiet" is not an option that mpv understands, which is why it's
>> puking. Not sure what's calling mpv and specifying that option, but
>> smplayer's options are in your ~/.config/smplayer directory, so try
>> looking there to see if smplayer is calling mpv with that option, e.g.
>>
>>     $ grep -r noquiet ~/.config/smplayer
> I ran
> grep -r noquiet ~/.config
> nothing at all comes up.
> I also ran it on /etc/mpv
> and even on /etc/mplayer.
> No hits!!
>
> So, that leaves ~/.mpv and ~/.config/mpv
> What syntax should be placed there in the conf file
> to specifies the args to mpv?
> I mean, something like:
>
> args= yara yara yara ... ?

Did a bit more digging for you and you may have an issue. It appears
the binary for smplayer actually has this embedded in it:

	[root at prophead ~]# strings /bin/smplayer | grep noquiet
	-noquiet

so you may not be able to get rid of it. However, I ran smplayer from
the command line against an mp4 video I have laying about and it worked
without incident (other that popping up a whine screen that there's a
newer version of smplayer available).

I did look at the command line that was fed to mpv, however, and it
used "-no-quiet" rather than "-noquiet". Note that this was on F21.
Here are the RPMs I installed:

	[root at prophead ~]# dnf list mpv smplayer
	Using metadata from Tue Jun 16 09:41:00 2015 (1 day, 2:18:03 hours old)
	Installed Packages
	mpv.x86_64                         0.9.1-1.fc21 
   @System
	smplayer.x86_64                    14.9.0.6966-2.fc21 
   @System

And the actual version numbers of the programs from the programs
themselves:

	[rick at prophead July-3-2011]$ mpv --version
	<stuff removed>
	mpv 0.9.1 (C) 2000-2015 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects

	[rick at prophead July-3-2011]$ smplayer --version
	<stuff removed>
	This is SMPlayer v. 14.9.0 (svn r0UNKNOWN) running on Linux
	Debug: This is SMPlayer v. 14.9.0 (svn r0UNKNOWN) running on Linux
	Debug: Compiled with Qt v. 4.8.6, using 4.8.6

And this is the command line smplayer used to invoke mpv (from
smplayer's debug output):

	Debug: Core::startMplayer: command: '/usr/bin/mpv --no-config 
--no-quiet --terminal --no-msg-color --input-file=/dev/stdin --no-fs 
--hwdec=no --sub-auto=fuzzy --vo=xv --ao=pulse --stop-screensaver 
--no-input-default-bindings --input-x11-keyboard=no --no-input-cursor 
--cursor-autohide=no --no-keepaspect --wid=88080422 
--monitorpixelaspect=1 --osd-scale=1 --sub-ass --embeddedfonts 
--ass-line-spacing=0 --sub-scale=1 --sub-text-font=Arial 
--sub-text-color=#ffffff --sub-text-shadow-color=#000000 
--sub-text-border-color=#000000 --sub-text-border-size=2.5 
--sub-text-shadow-offset=5 --sub-codepage=utf8:ISO-8859-1 --sub-pos=100 
--volume=50 --cache=2048 --osd-level=0 
--screenshot-template=cap_%F_%p_%02n --audio-channels=2 
--af-add=scaletempo --af-add=equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 --softvol=yes 
--softvol-max=110 --ytdl=no --term-playing-msg=MPV_VERSION=${=mpv-version:}

As has been said, "Works for me!" Your mileage may vary.
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