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Windows support ?

The current focus is on UNIX/Linux OSes, supporting Windows is out of scope ATM. Your best aim for using mpvc under Windows is to follow mpv documentation: https://mpv.io/manual/master/#command-prompt-example

• First, step should be installing Cygwin/MSYS2 and mpv.
• Second, step should be getting mpvc.
• Third, should be getting a socat (see socat.ps1) replacement command under windows to perform read/write on the MPVC_SOCKET named pipe used by mpv/mpvc.
• Last, AFAIK nobody has got to this point, so if somebody gets mpvc working on windows, report back, and update this.

MPRIS support ?

Check mpv-mpris docs/setup, below is a quick setup:

mkdir -p ~/.config/mpv/scripts
curl -fsSL -o ~/.config/mpv/scripts/mpris.so https://github.com/hoyon/mpv-mpris/releases/download/1.0/mpris.so

Then, once mpv speaks MPRIS, if your WM does not speak MPRIS, get playerctl.