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mrc
Fast, robust and experimental JSON IPC wrapper for the mpv video player; comes with a wrapper library, a CLI and a server for remote control.
Hacking
Both CLI and server utilities require mpv to be started with the IPC socket enabled.
mpv --idle --input-ipc-server=/tmp/mpvsocket
mrc does not handle TLS certificates for you. To run the remote control server, you must create your own PKCS#12 certificates using OpenSSL.
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 365
openssl pkcs12 -export -out identity.pfx -inkey key.pem -in cert.pem
mrc then read the TLS_PFX_PATH and TLS_PASSWORD environment variables to
load them. You should also set AUTH_TOKEN for making authenticated requests to
the server remotely. Running without an auth token is "supported", but the
server will not fully function.
export TLS_PFX_PATH=/path/to/identity.pfx
export TLS_PASSWORD="your_identity_passphrase"
export AUTH_TOKEN="your_auth_token"
Then start the server with cargo run --bin=server.
How you handle environment is up to you, Systemd makes it somewhat easy if running mrc as a service.
Testing mpv IPC socket
If you suspect some IPC commands are not being sent properly, try sending them manually first with something like socat.
echo '{ "command": ["pause"] }' | socat - /tmp/mpvsocket