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Setting mpv options

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by locating the MPV option parsing entry point and reproduce the reported error with the four listed stream-lavf options, both with and without the leading dashes. Done means the options are accepted without the “too many values to unpack” error and their intended values are passed through.

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Description

How do I set this options in hypnotix:

--stream-lavf-o-append=reconnect_on_http_error=4xx,5xx --stream-lavf-o-append=reconnect_delay_max=30 --stream-lavf-o-append=reconnect_streamed=yes --stream-lavf-o-append=reconnect_on_network_error=yes

I tried setting it without the "--" but I still got

Could not parse MPV options!
too many values to unpack (expected 2)
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