Feature request: MPRIS support

[aanderse]

What a great program. Any chance we could get MPRIS support?

[Siriusmart]

Since youtube-tui uses mpv internally, it would be possible to take advantage of preexisting mpv scripts.

For example, I use this plugin called mpv-discord to tell everyone that I am not an average spotify user, I would just install the plugin and load it by adding mpv load-script /etc/mpv/scripts/discord.lua to the end of my launch command in ~/.config/youtube-tui/commands.yml.

There are multiple mpv mpris plugins available, and I assume that the setup process is similar to how I setup mpv-discord.

[aanderse]

I'm not familiar with the mpv load-script syntax you provided. When I ran mpv --script /path/to/mpris/plugin.so $url the media showed up in my MPRIS client, but when I tried what you suggested it did not.

Is this what you meant?

$ cat ~/.config/youtube-tui/commands.yml
launch_command: loadpage library ;; flush ;; history clear ;; key Esc 0 ;; key Up 0 ;; key Up 0 ;; key Left 0 ;; key Enter 0 ;; mpv load-script /path/to/mpris/plugin.so

Thank you for your help!

[Siriusmart]

out.mp4

Since I use arch (btw), mpv-mpris installs to /etc/mpv/scripts/mpris.so by default. As shown in the video i was able to get it working

If you want to try and see what went wrong, you can run commands while running the tui by pressing : and entering the command u want to do. If the command ran without output then ur proabably good to go, or else if u get -4 exit code something bad happened, if its -12 then its file not found.

[aanderse]

Thanks for the help.

Interesting... the MPRIS plugin doesn't work when I play a video for the first time, though it does work after I either play another video, or pause the first video, etc...