[Request] --force-window parameter: image

[bitingsock]

I'm wondering how popular it would be to add a parameter to the --force-window option. This parameter would set an image file as the video. Preferably, one could designate relative paths and wildcards: --force-window=%X/*.jpg(delimiter)png

[spidey]

Would you use this to show a cover art when playing music?

[bitingsock]

Yes, for example. It wouldn't necessarily have to be cover art though. It could be an image you want up for all music. Or if you don't want to go strip the shitty 24x24 embedded art in a file, it could just be swapped at start.

[mvucBmM0]

I would just like to reinforce this request.
Apart from using audio files with embed art, i haven't found any other way to show album art while playing an audio file in mpv. This would fit the bill.

[sljunkie]

This could be useful - one could create a profile for using mpv as a music player from the file browser with a fixed image or a file named "cover|front.png|jpg" located at the same directory as the audio file(s).

[sljunkie]

I have an idea that could be easily implemented: instead of a black screen, by default a image with the mpv logo at the center could be drawn in the --force-window mode, if the media has only audio and there's no embedded cover art. Something like this:

[woodruffw]

Another +1 for this.

[Traneptora]

Is there any particular reason you can't just play the image, and set --image-display-duration=inf?

[bitingsock]

that partially works but then the osc and scripts don't operate on the audio-file that you would load; they operate on the image file

[bitingsock]

as it turns out, the --external-file option as explained in #3056 seems to work for this purpose now.