MPVPaper is opening in a new window and not displaying as the background. about mpvpaper

[ILOVEPIE]

I don't understand, mpvpaper only allows the "libmpv" as a VO there should be no choice.
And there is no --vo=vulkan did you mean --hwdec=vulkan?
https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-hwdec

IDK, but that fixes it.
Specifying --vo=wlshm fixes it too.

[GhostNaN]

Are you running with a X11 compositor?
If so: #61

[ILOVEPIE]

No, I'm running under sway on archlinux with an AMD GPU.

[GhostNaN]

Odd.
What does your mpv config look like under ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf?

[ILOVEPIE]

https://termbin.com/gpoz

[GhostNaN]

Looks like the default config.

Well, let's get a better log from mpv.
Run mpvpaper with this:
mpvpaper -v -o "--log-file=output.txt" DP-3 /my/video.mp4
And upload the log file it creates.

[ILOVEPIE]

Looks like the default config.

Well, let's get a better log from mpv.
Run mpvpaper with this:
mpvpaper -v -o "--log-file=output.txt" DP-3 /my/video.mp4
And upload the log file it creates.

I'll get this done today I've just been a little busy.

[ILOVEPIE]

It turns out, this is because I have a Nvidia GPU running on nouveau/NVK attached to the system, even though it's not the GPU i'm using it seems to confuse mpvpaper. I managed to work around it by adding --mpv-options "--vo=vulkan"

[GhostNaN]

I see.

Have you tried manually selecting the GPU you want to use?
With something like --vulkan-device=my_gpu
https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-vulkan-device

I managed to work around it by adding --mpv-options "--vo=vulkan"

I don't understand, mpvpaper only allows the "libmpv" as a VO there should be no choice.
And there is no --vo=vulkan did you mean --hwdec=vulkan?
https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-hwdec

[fjueic]

Specifying --vo=wlshm fixes it too.

thanks it worked for me

[leaty]

Can confirm, but it seems any value works so it's likely some new bug.
E.g. --vo=_ and --vo=asdf works, but to avoid any warning you can do --vo=libmpv.

EDIT: This affects mpv 0.38.0, 0.37.0 works fine.