Cycling between --term-playing-msg='\n${filename}' and --really-quiet, and cycling video mode at the same time

[Kabouik]

I would like to be able to swith between --no-video and sixel views using the key _. This kind of works but the sixel view gets broken on my machine when mpv keeps refreshing text in the sixel mode, which is the case if I set a custom term-playing-msg as shown in the title.

This is for a script meant to be user agnostic, so I am trying to avoid having to ship an input.conf.

@guidocella on IRC kindly showed me tricks that could be assembled using cycle to achieve almost what I wanted:

mpv /path/to/file --no-config --vo=sixel --no-video --msg-level=all=error,statusline=status \
  --input-conf='memory://_ cycle-values msg-level all=error,statusline=status all=error; cycle vid'

However, this is based on showing the statusline when in text mode, and hiding it when in sixel mode (to avoid breaking the sixel cover with text refreshes). Sadly, this does not show the filename like the term-msg-playing option in the title, and I couldn't find how to use that with cycle or cycle-values. I suppose cycling between that and really-quiet simultaneously with the text/sixel change would work too, but I don't know how to alter term-playing-msg with this method.

Any ideas?

[guidocella]

cycle-values term-playing-msg "\n${filename}" ''

[Kabouik]

Thank you. I have two issues with that unfortunately:

• Trying it in a dummy input.conf file where I give it a keybind, and then loading it at runtime with with --input.conf='/tmp/input.conf', it seems the text is only shown temporarily instead of being a static toggle.
• Trying to add it directly in the list of options and using memory :// without a real file, I'm bumping into double-quotes and single-quote clashes. On top of that, this list of options is also a variable $mpvui in the script and I run mpv <stuff> $mpvui, where the initial assignation of the variable also needs quotes:

mpvui="--vo=$secondary_interface --no-video --input-conf='memory://_ cycle-values term-playing-msg "\n${filename}" ''; cycle vid'"

I've tried different combinations of escaping or single and double quotes, with no success so far (but I understand this goes into shell scripting territory, not mpv).

[guidocella]

--term-playing-msg is only printed at the start of playback, you want --term-status-msg for text that can be changed during playback.

[Kabouik]

Thank you! I got what I wanted with this:

text_status="'\${?pause==no:▶ }\${?pause==yes:⏸ }\${percent-pos}% [\${time-pos}/\${duration}] \${filename} \${?pause==yes:(paused)}'"
mpv_opts="--no-config --ao=pulse --watch-later-dir=$HOME/.local/state/mpv/watch_later --save-position-on-quit --script-opts=osc-visibility=always --msg-level=all=error,statusline=status --term-status-msg=$text_status"
dummy_text="'$(printf \\033)'"
mpvui="--vo=sixel --no-video --input-conf='memory://_ cycle-values term-status-msg $dummy_text ${text_status//\'/\"}; cycle vid'"
mpv $mpv_opts $mpvui

[guidocella]

You can use ${osd-sym-cc} for the play/pause symbol.

[Kabouik]

Thanks. That does not seem to work for me in 0.37.0 or 0.38.0 though. No big deal though as long as I can achieve the same with the conditional properties, which might be compatible with older versions.

[guidocella]

It seems not to work in the terminal, only in a window.

[Kabouik]

Turns out I overlooked an issue with the status not being refreshed properly after having switched to sixel and back to text view.

This video shows it (the black screen is when I press _):

https://asciinema.org/a/fQ2ptq0phNf1OAKWnHRbb1dZV

The command I'm using:

mpv somefile.mp3 someotherfile.mp3 --no-config \
  --vo=sixel \
  --no-video \
  --msg-level=all=error,statusline=status \
  --term-status-msg='${playlist}\n${?pause==no:▶ }${?pause==yes:⏸ }${percent-pos}% [${time-pos}/${duration}] ${filename} ${?pause==yes:(paused)}' \
  --input-conf='memory://_ cycle-values term-status-msg "Sixel shown here but not supported by asciinema" "${playlist}\\n${?pause==no:▶ }${?pause==yes:⏸ }${percent-pos}% [${time-pos}/${duration}] ${filename} ${?pause==yes:(paused)}"; cycle vid'

I noticed it when fiddling with the playlist shown by the OSD. After going back from Sixel (or after cycling back, don't know which is the cause), nothing gets refreshed in the text output anymore.