mpvnet does not recognize stdin as input

[TETYYS]

When using streamlink with mpvnet player, player shows a blank screen with a logo in the middle of it.

mpvnet doesn't seem to recognize stdin as input.

[stax76]

You mean following project?

https://streamlink.github.io/

I would need more detail like a command line or URL.

[TETYYS]

Yes, but I believe the issue is that mpvnet doesn't accept any stdin input. For example:

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -c:v copy -c:a copy -f matroska - | mpvnet - doesn't work, but works fine for mpv (just replace mpvnet with mpv), tested on WSL command line.

[stax76]

It might not be possible to implement due to limitations of the Windows OS, I'll investigate it, thanks for the feedback.

[TETYYS]

I run Windows and it works fine with mpv.

[stax76]

That was fast, mpv has two executables, one for the console (mpv.com) and one for the windowing system (mpv.exe), probably they communicate via json ipc, I think that somewhere in the mpv documentation it is mentioned that this split is only needed on windows and Linux can do it together without a split.

[stax76]

All my attempts to make mpv work with input from stdin failed today. :(

[TETYYS]

Powershell is kinda bad with piping, that's why I used WSL. Classic cmd works too, for this exact command line at least: ffmpeg -i "any video.mp4" -c:v copy -c:a copy -f matroska - | mpv - (requires ffmpeg and mpv in PATH)

[stax76]

My command line did not work because I used PowerShell instead of CMD.

mpv.net did a file exist check, that's why stdin don't work, it will work in the next release. :-)

[stax76]

New release is online. Thanks for the feedback.