when running another mpv instance

[phanirithvij]

When running another mpv instance before starting

wp run mpv ....

wp will push the existing mpv into the background instead of opening the new one in the background.

A video showing what I mean.

[phanirithvij]

contents of videowalls.bat

wp run mpv ^
--player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui ^
--force-window=yes ^
--terminal=no ^
--no-audio ^
--sub=no ^
--loop=inf ^
--fullscreen ^
--input-ipc-server=\\.\pipe\mpvsocket ^
"D:\Images\VideoWallpapers"

wp mv --wait --class mpv -x 1920
wp add --wait --fullscreen --class mpv

[Francesco149]

yeah, you can't use class with multiple mpv's. you could set the window title by passing --title="something" to mpv and then using the window name to find it

[phanirithvij]

So I was able to do it like this

wp run mpv ^
--player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui ^
--force-window=yes ^
--terminal=no ^
--title=wp ^
--no-audio ^
--sub=no ^
--loop=inf ^
--fullscreen ^
--input-ipc-server=\\.\pipe\mpvsocket ^
"D:\Images\VideoWallpapers"

wp mv --wait --name wp -x 1920
wp add --wait --fullscreen --name wp

How can I kill that specific mpv instance?

Right now I'm doing

taskkill /im mpv.exe /f
wp.exe killall

Which kills all the running mpv instances.

[Francesco149]

wp kill --name wp or wp killall --name wp

[phanirithvij]

It doesn't work.
The mpv is still there. One more thing, I don't see wp in task manager when it is running

[phanirithvij]

Got something working to kill that wallpaper mpv instance (terrible hack sorry)

set cmd=powershell -c "get-process mpv | where-object {$_.mainwindowhandle -eq 0} | select-object Id"
:: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27429851/8608146
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('%cmd%') do (
   set "lastButOne=!lastLine!"
   set "lastLine=%%a"
)
taskkill /PID %lastLine% /f
REM timeout 5000

:: This does nothing (??)
wp.exe killall --name wp

[Francesco149]

hmm that's strange. wp kill and wp killall both find the window in the same way wp mv does. so I don't see how it wouldn't find it. I'll look into this when i have time I guess

[phanirithvij]

The title of mpv is getting removed when it is set as a wallpaper for some reason. That's why I was able to filter that mpv process by no title and get the pid.

[phanirithvij]

Btw I am once again asking for the battlefield video wallpaper that's in th readme

[Francesco149]

that makes sense. but how does the mv command work then? hmm

well if the window can't retain its title it's gonna be hard to make wp kill work

and I don't have that wallpaper anymore