Intro

This program uses libmpv to play videos/musics. It will run an idle mpv instance, and provide a web-app to control the mpv.

Use Cases

A server is run in the machine with local IP address at the given port. The addresses are printed to the stdout (or use --qr option for a QR Code). The server will have a simple webapp to control the player. As shown in screenshot below, you can add songs based on URLs, filepaths, and control the player to a certain degree.

You can run the program with a list of files in commandline args that'll be in the playlist from default, or you can add urls to the playlist from web app. If you add the link of youtube playlist in the add url option, it'll add all the songs, while adding links of the songs will add just one.

Options

Usage: local-mpv [OPTIONS] [FILES]... [-- [OPTIONS]...]

Arguments:
  [FILES]...    Files to play by MPV
  [OPTIONS]...  Options for the mpv, only key-value pairs and bool flags are accepted

Options:
  -l, --loop         run mpv in loop mode
  -n, --no-video     Do not show video play audio only
  -f, --fullscreen   Fullscreen
  -p, --port <PORT>  Run the server in the given port [default: 6780]
  -q, --qr           Display QR code for URL
  -h, --help         Print help (see more with '--help')
  -V, --version      Print version

Future Plans

Option to save/upload playlists as text file
Option to upload a file (music/video) from client's local storage
Play any of the entries in the playlist by clicking a button

Installation

Simple, cargo build --release command should work for the compilation. If you get an error on running the binary compiled from there. It might be a problems with libmpv-rs.

A small inconvience is that the libmpv-rs library is build against a fixed libmpv version. So, clone the libmpv-rs repo from github, and make sure it is made for the same version of libmpv that you have in your system. You can also change the version number in the Cargo.toml if the corresponding version is available in crates.io, in my case, I replaced the contents in libmpv-sys/include/ in the libmpv-rs repo from the header files in /use/include/mpv/.

Arch Linux

For Arch Linux, a patch file is provided. But it might be better to install from AUR package local-mpv-git.