Cool project -- Have small problem where player hangs when loading folder

[nyavramov]

Hi there,

Cool project! I'm a comp sci student and I have a small open source project ("webmarizer") that I am running on my repo. I wanted to find a way to preview webms that my program creates and display them within my PyQt5 GUI. I stumbled upon your project in my search.

I was trying to run your code but it seems to hang whenever I load a folder. I am on Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan, Macbook Air. Any ideas about what could be causing the program to hang?

All the best.

[nithjino]

Are there any error messages in the terminal? If you installed all the dependencies I listed in the readme, what versions?

[nyavramov]

Hey there, thanks for the reply.

I have:
Python -- 3.6.5
PyQt -- 5.10.1
python-mpv -- 0.3.8
mpv -- 0.27.2 (I am assuming that libmpv means this mpv version)

Is there something I am forgetting? There are no error messages in the terminal. It just hangs there, unfortunately. The GUI seems to open up just fine, but when it comes to loading & playing webms there seems to be a problem.

EDIT: Tried brew install mpv --with-libmpv but that did not help either.

[nithjino]

This is my setup on Ubuntu 18.04. Everything works just fine. libmpv is a separate installation for me but seems you tried using brew to do that. It seems that there are some issues about being stuck in threading on mac OS so maybe you can look at that thread and see if their workaround works for you. Another possible solution is to have libmpv.so in the local working directory instead of installed on your system. jaseg/python-mpv#61

Python: 3.6.5
PyQt5: 5.10.1
python-mpv: 0.3.8
mpv: 0.28.0
libmpv: 0.27.2