From 82b5361946942099490a65425b57c1ad73ca5193 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 19:04:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] umpv: silence mpv terminal output Now it does basically the same as mkv.desktop. Explanation is included in the description comment. --- TOOLS/umpv | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/TOOLS/umpv b/TOOLS/umpv index 162b4de467..d701166f72 100755 --- a/TOOLS/umpv +++ b/TOOLS/umpv @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ otherwise not playable, mpv will skip the playlist entry when attempting to play it (from the GUI perspective, it's silently ignored). If mpv isn't running yet, this script will start mpv and let it control the -current terminal. +current terminal. It will not write output to stdout/stderr, because this +will typically just fill ~/.xsession-errors with garbage. mpv will terminate if there are no more files to play, and running the umpv script after that will start a new mpv instance. @@ -88,4 +89,5 @@ else: raise e os.mkfifo(FIFO, 0600) - subprocess.check_call(["mpv", "--force-window", "--input-file=" + FIFO] + files) + subprocess.check_call(["mpv", "--really-quiet", "--force-window", + "--input-file=" + FIFO, "--"] + files)