pass arguments to open IINA

[brysi-ux]

pass arguments to open IINA

[ShlomoCode]

According to mpv-player/mpv#4354 (comment) it seems that you should call IINA directly and not through the open command

[low-batt]

On this:

but I'm trying to find a bash solution due to the minor delay when using GUI scripting

As discussed in Automate tasks using AppleScript and Terminal on Mac, you can run AppleScript directly from Terminal using osascript. Run the following in Terminal to learn more about osascript:

man osascript

Another way to control IINA from the Terminal is to use mpv's JSON IPC interface. See this comment for an example of how to configure IINA to enable the IPC interface. This example shows me commanding IINA to seek to a specific time:

low-batt@gag ~$ echo '{ "command": ["seek", "5:00", "absolute"] }' | socat - /tmp/mpv-socket | jq
{
  "data": null,
  "request_id": 0,
  "error": "success"
}
low-batt@gag ~$ 

[brysi-ux]

Thank you for the information about the JSON interface, I was unaware of this.