Command Line Interface

[lhc70000]

Description:

Basic CLI support.

• Supports all mpv options (except --no-* ones) with --mpv- prrefix.
• Supports playing from stdin if invoked with --stdin.
• Supports passing other Cocoa arguments together, like -Name VALUE.

[saagarjha]

FWIW I would recommend splitting the command line interface off into a separate target, instead of having it reside in the main binary.

[lhc70000]

@saagarjha

• Separate binary may require additional installation
• Still need to pass the options to main binary via some way, and need to handle piping/stdin too

[saagarjha]

The binary would be bundled as part of IINA, and would handle parsing arguments and handling input/output. Then it would call the main binary and set it up for playback.

[lhc70000]

In which way it calls the main binary? Is it possible to call methods in the main binary directly?

[saagarjha]

Is it possible to call methods in the main binary directly?

Fair point; this is not easy to do and so probably not worth doing. A few things we should still look into: making IINA behave like a standard command line tool, and offering to symlink it to a directory in the user's PATH such as /usr/local/bin/.

[MuntashirAkon]

Splitting CLI is not a good idea. Many applications (although not written in Swift) support CLI and GUI at the same time, including VLC, wine, etc. Also, since this feature is intended for advanced user, whether they want to put iina binary to their ~/.bash_profile should be up to them, or there may be provided an option in the preferences to add iina to their path or as @saagarjha said, make a symlink to a path that is already included by default.

[uiryuu]

I suggest wrapping this line into a class function of PlayerCore. Kind of wired.

[Et0h]

I'm really pleased to see work being done on CLI support for IINA.