Specifying command line options to mpv-player

[wturrell]

(I suppose this is a feature request, or maybe just a "how do I" that might be impossible…)

For a while now, in the latest curveball the BBC have thrown at direct stream listeners, the BBC HLS streams keep cutting out after a few minutes - MPV exits with a "terminated abnormally" message.

mpv-player/mpv#13428
https://www.reddit.com/r/mpv/comments/181yu2z/problem_streaming_radio/

There is a fix for this, which is to use mpv-player with the --loop-playlist=forceor (better, I suspect) --demuxer-lavf-o=max_reload=1000 options - is there anyway we you could enable specifying extra playback options per playlist item?

Or switch a particular station to a different player (e.g. someone in that thread suggested ffplay instead..)

Thanks,
William

[s-n-g]

Hi @wturrell

A per station solution does not exist (yet?)

Can you please specify a URL to use for my tests?

[wturrell]

BBC Radio 3:

this'll exit after some unspecified period of time, maybe 5 minutes, maybe less, just now it took 18:

mpv http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_three/bbc_radio_three.isml/bbc_radio_three-audio=320000.m3u8

versus this which will keep going:

mpv --demuxer-lavf-o=max_reload=1000 http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_three/bbc_radio_three.isml/bbc_radio_three-audio=320000.m3u8

[s-n-g]

ok, on it...

[s-n-g]

So...

Here's a quick and temporary way to get it to work

Open ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf and modify it so that the pyradio entry contains any of the parameters you specified above. For example

[pyradio]
volume=50
loop-playlist=force

or

[pyradio]
volume=50
demuxer-lavf-o=max_reload=1000

Please check that using any of these parameters do not negatively impact the playback of any other station; I have had no problem with either of them on a linux system

I will leave this one open and keep working on it, and notify yu of that I can come up

[wturrell]

(this is working well so far)