Failure to locate mpv binary on macOS/Homebrew MPV installation (with workaround) about mpv_thumbnail_script

[marzzzello]

How did you modify the PATH variable?
It looks like the CLI uses a different environment than the UI.
https://www.bounga.org/tips/2020/04/07/instructs-mac-os-gui-apps-about-path-environment-variable/
Have you tried setting the PATH in /etc/launchd?
EDIT: In the comments someone says that it no longer works :/

[rucker]

I am setting my PATH in my .bashrc. From what I've read, exposing user env vars to GUI applications on macOS is a nontrivial problem with a lot of potential solutions (depending on the version -- as you mentioned, launchd used to be one possibility but this is no longer the case).

At any rate, unless you want this thumbnailer script to go looking in known locations like Homebrew's bin dir that aren't on the default PATH (I understand if you don't), it seems to me that this is more of a system configuration issue.

Here are some possible solutions for anyone else facing this situation:

1. Hard-code the path to mpv as shown in the OP above.
2. Various possibilities listed here (warning, this is an old question with old answers so YMMV).

Unless there are other possibilities I'm not thinking of, you can probably close this issue.

[marzzzello]

So none of the possibilities in [2.] work? launchctl setenv PATH $PATH looked promising.
I could also add an option for setting the path to mpv.

[SemperPeritus]

The same problem. My workaround here: TheAMM#61

[rucker]

So none of the possibilities in [2.] work? launchctl setenv PATH $PATH looked promising. I could also add an option for setting the path to mpv.

I haven't tried everything in that SO thread, but launchctl setenv PATH $PATH unfortunately did not do the trick. I verified that the path is correct via launchctl getenv PATH but it had no apparent effect -- launching MPV after setting this resulted in the thumbnailer job failing as before. I agree it looked promising though!

[rucker]

@marzzzello @SemperPeritus Please have a look at #39, which I think will resolve this.