Can you please make installation instructions for Windows?

[qmarsn]

Thanks so much!

[purarue]

Hi -- I don't have access to a windows computer for now, but according to the instructions here, this'll probably be complicated?

The general problem is that all the commands here interacting with sockets use socat, and that assumes a linux like environment. Here is an excerpt from the JSON IPC section of the mpv man page:

Command Prompt example
       Unfortunately, it's not as easy to test the IPC pro‐
       tocol  on  Windows, since Windows ports of socat (in
       Cygwin and MSYS2) don't understand named  pipes.  In
       the  absence  of  a  simple tool to send and receive
       from bidirectional pipes, the echo  command  can  be
       used  to send commands, but not receive replies from
       the command prompt.

       Assuming mpv was started with:

          mpv file.mkv --input-ipc-server=\\.\pipe\mpvsocket

       You can send commands from a command prompt:

          echo show-text ${playback-time} >\\.\pipe\mpvsocket

       To be able to simultaneously read and write from the
       IPC pipe, like on Linux, it's necessary to write  an
       external  program  that uses overlapped file I/O (or
       some wrapper like .NET's NamedPipeClientStream.)

       You can open the pipe in PuTTY as  "serial"  device.
       This  is  not  very  comfortable, but gives a way to
       test interactively without having to write code.

My windows knowledge is tiny though, so maybe its possible to use this through WSL and that creates the pipes that socat needs properly, but according to reddit post that induces a bunch of lag?

I will leave this open in-case someone else is already doing this or can provide instructions/workarounds.

[qmarsn]

Thank you so much for the detailed response. Crossing my fingers that someone has a remedy to make this work on Windows.