Mpv with lua enabled

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Is there a way to get mpv with lua compiled in it?
It seems that the swupd package doesn’t come with it.

Without it the on-screen-controls are missing and of course the scripting capabilities.

$ mpv --osc
Error parsing option osc (option not found)
Setting commandline option --osc= failed.

Exiting... (Fatal error)
2

I fixed our mpv package. In a few days it will have lua enabled in the build and this should then work.

3

Just out of interest, where would it be possible to see what options have been compiled in mpv ? :slightly_smiling_face:

4

mpv is “autodetecting”. In other words, it doesn’t really use compile flags, but, just detects the presence of supporting libraries to turn them on/off. That’s why enabling Lua was relatively trivial, I just added LuaJIT as a dependency (not in this git tree yet, will take 1-2 days).

5

Thank you @ahkok :slightly_smiling_face
I’m looking for a way to play encrypted DVDs and whether i would need to compile a local version of mpv myself. I’ve already built libdvdnav,libdvdread and libdvdcss in the usual /usr/local.
Obviously the easy way would be to get Flatpak VLC, but i wouldn’t then learn as much in the process.

6

Unlikely we will ever include the needed support for that, so, I would strongly suggest you try and compile it. It’s not super complicated, but getting all the OS dependencies is always tricky to get it 100% right.

7

Thanks i’ll give it a go :slightly_smiling_face:

8

I just checked it out myself. Thank you for the update!