[SOLVED] mpv command not doing anything

Yann · 2020-08-15 20:08:28

Hi everyone,

I am on arch up to date (linux 5.8) with i3wm. Since the 15/08/2020 my mpv (community/mpv 1:0.32.0-4) video player is broken.
When running bash command in an x terminal with mpv

mpv some_file.ext

It doesn't play anything and returns the prompt without any outputs. Then the x terminal can not display anymore characters, kind of broken.
Then, I have no logs. I downgraded the kernel, reinstall mpv completely, still broken.
Then, I suspect one of these packages I upgraded since mpv was working fine to be the cause of the issue.

lmdb
harfbuzz
harfbuzz-icu
haskell-assoc
haskell-attoparsec
haskell-base-compat-batteries
haskell-base-orphans
haskell-bifunctors
haskell-comonad
haskell-data-fix
haskell-distributive
haskell-dlist
haskell-hashable
haskell-primitive
haskell-scientific
haskell-strict
haskell-these
haskell-time-compat
haskell-unordered-containers
haskell-uuid-types
haskell-vector
haskell-aeson
haskell-aeson-pretty
haskell-ansi-terminal
haskell-asn1-encoding
haskell-asn1-parse
haskell-asn1-types
haskell-async
haskell-base64-bytestring
haskell-blaze-html
haskell-blaze-markup
haskell-case-insensitive
haskell-cmark-gfm
haskell-colour
haskell-connection
haskell-cryptonite
haskell-data-default
haskell-data-default-instances-dlist
haskell-doclayout
haskell-doctemplates
haskell-emojis
haskell-glob
haskell-haddock-library
haskell-hourglass
haskell-hslua
haskell-hslua-module-system
haskell-hslua-module-text
haskell-hsyaml
haskell-http
haskell-http-client
haskell-http-client-tls
haskell-http-types
haskell-hxt
haskell-ipynb
haskell-jira-wiki-markup
haskell-juicypixels
haskell-memory
haskell-network
haskell-network-uri
haskell-pandoc-types
haskell-pem
haskell-quickcheck
haskell-skylighting
haskell-skylighting-core
haskell-socks
haskell-split
haskell-splitmix
haskell-streaming-commons
haskell-tagsoup
haskell-temporary
haskell-texmath
haskell-text-conversions
haskell-tls
haskell-x509
haskell-x509-store
haskell-x509-system
haskell-x509-validation
haskell-zip-archive
kaccounts-integration
kcolorchooser
kdenlive
lib32-harfbuzz
lib32-pango
libkexiv2
pango
signon-kwallet-extension
linux-lts
linux-lts-headers
nvidia
okular
pandoc
pipewire
python-setuptools
python-wheel
python

However, any of them seems to be a dependency of mpv.

Steps to reproduce: Update all your packages, mpv has the broken behavior.

I think the problem is somewhere else, but I can not figure it out. Any idea?

Thanks for your time.

Last edited by Yann (2020-08-16 11:41:47)

Mortimer Houghton · 2020-08-16 00:41:11

This may narrow your search a little bit, but I'm using sway (pure wayland, no X) and mpv is working fine, even tested it multiple times after seeing your post.

jasonwryan · 2020-08-16 00:53:24

--msg-level=all=trace

Also, post the output of `pacman -Syu --debug`

Last edited by jasonwryan (2020-08-16 00:54:37)

Yann · 2020-08-16 08:25:28

Thanks for your answers.

With mpv I use some lua custom scripts to do stuff on events. When I remove the .config/mpv/scripts folder, everything is working fine. Huge progress.

Then, I used the

--msg-level=all=trace

suggested by @jasonwryan and can see some logs. I did not think about it.

Finally, I tried to remove one by one the lua scripts and noticed that one of my scripts was causing the issue. I fixed it by updating the lua script according to the changes I made on my file system and I retrieved my mpv video player !

Thanks for your time.

Last edited by Yann (2020-08-16 11:43:53)

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#1 2020-08-15 20:08:28

[SOLVED] mpv command not doing anything

#2 2020-08-16 00:41:11

Re: [SOLVED] mpv command not doing anything

#3 2020-08-16 00:53:24

Re: [SOLVED] mpv command not doing anything

#4 2020-08-16 08:25:28

Re: [SOLVED] mpv command not doing anything

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