Matt Connell wrote: > On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 22:16 -0500, Dale wrote: >> It doesn't seem to have a preferences thing that I can find. >> You know where they hide that thing? > mpv is wholly configuration file based, fortunately or unfortunately. > Not the easiest bar to reach, but the man page is extremely well > detailed. > >
What I wanted to get rid of mostly was the progress bar when I hit left or right arrow. It was only there for a second but I just look at the bottom if I need to know where I am. In case someone else runs up on this thread, this is how to get rid of it, or set it to something else. In mpv.conf, located in /etc/mpv/ here, add this line. --osd-on-seek=no >From the man page: --osd-on-seek=<no,bar,msg,msg-bar> Set what is displayed on the OSD during seeks. The default is bar. It defaults to bar which annoys me. Set to no, when you seek, it displays nothing, just moves the video. I'm not sure what msg does. Maybe it adds flavor or something. LOL I did test multiple instances, it opens at least three with no problems. Now to get rid of the caption thing. The man page comes to the rescue again. Added this to mpv.conf as well. --sub-create-cc-track=no >From man page: --sub-create-cc-track=<yes|no> For every video stream, create a closed captions track (default: no). The only purpose is to make the track available for selection at the start of playback, instead of creating it lazily. This applies only to ATSC A53 Part 4 Closed Captions (displayed by mpv as subtitle tracks using the codec eia_608). The CC track is marked "default" and selected according to the normal subtitle track selection rules. You can then use --sid to explicitly select the correct track too. If the video stream contains no closed captions, or if no video is being decoded, the CC track will remain empty and will not show any text. It says it defaults to no but it appears something changed somewhere. It showed captions by default but setting to no cut them off. I assume this doesn't work if they are coded into the video itself tho. Sometimes people do it that way instead of having it a separate track thingy. Also, I put both options on ONE line in the config file. Having it on two separate lines may work but it certainly works with both on the same line. Also, there is a line in there for youtube-dl that is on its own line. I assume those are two different things. Thanks Matt for pointing me in this direction. As it is, this might be a better player for me than QMPlay2 is. This works as good as QMPlay2 and it closes at the end. I miss gnome-player tho. Silly old thing gave me a lot of years of good use. :/ Dale :-) :-)
