Topic: SVP not detecting other players once Plex is lauched

After setting up plex to use SVP - which is working fine - i've noticed that SVP seems to get stuck only listening for connections from plex

the connection to Plex mpv is made as soon as Plex is launched, before there are any videos playing, and persists even after Plex has exited.
it also stops catching freestanding mpv player (SVP bundled one) at all, regardless of the Running Multiple Videos setting

it seems to detect when a new instance of plex is opened, but mpv doesn't get detected after this, and the only current remedy is to restart SVP

if I open mpv first, then plex, the issue still occurs

i'm using Plex for Windows 1.65.1.3596-7b1f6d97

00:11:37.486 [i]: Main: preparing video profiles...
00:11:37.522 [i]: Main: preparing performance graphs...
00:11:37.645 [i]: Main: preparing ffdshow...
00:11:37.646 [i]: ffdshow: found 64-bit version 1.3.4533.0 [C:\Program Files\ffdshow\ffdshow.ax]
00:11:37.650 [i]: Main: preparing AviSynthFilter (AVSF)...
00:11:37.650 [i]: AVSF: found 64-bit version 1.4.5.0 [C:\Program Files (x86)\SVP 4\avsf\avisynth_filter_64.ax]
00:11:37.651 [i]: Main: preparing mpv...
00:11:37.652 [i]: Main: preparing remote control...
00:11:37.652 [i]: RemoteControl: started
00:11:37.652 [i]: Main: preparing main menu...
00:11:37.723 [i]: Main: loading extensions...
00:11:37.734 [i]: Main: initialization completed in 1366 ms, but still waiting for the screens measurement...
00:11:37.923 [i]: Updates: checking now...
00:11:39.120 [i]: Screens: screen 0 - 3440x1440 @143.950 Hz [measured], x1.3 [109 DPI]
00:11:39.121 [i]: Screens: primary screen is 0
00:11:40.250 [i]: Performance: quick estimation = 854 (previous value was 856)
00:12:31.994 [i]: VideoPlayer: mpv [Plex.exe] connected, waiting for the video info...
00:24:14.407 [i]: VideoPlayer: mpv [Plex.exe] connected, waiting for the video info...
00:24:28.178 [i]: VideoPlayer: mpv [Plex.exe] connected, waiting for the video info...
00:24:38.684 [i]: VideoPlayer: mpv 0.34.0-325-g602995fd40 /via 'mpvpipe'
00:24:39.747 [i]: Media: video looks like some kind of stream
00:24:39.747 [i]: Media: video 1920x1080 [PAR 1.000] at 23.976 fps (via video player)
00:24:39.747 [i]: Media: codec type is h264 (H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10), D3D11, BT.709 BT.1886
00:24:39.776 [i]: Playback: starting up...
00:24:39.782 [i]: Playback [e767d907]: Frame server (64-bit) C:\Program Files (x86)\SVP 4\mpv64\vapoursynth.dll
00:24:39.783 [i]: Playback [e767d907]: resulting video frame 1920x1080
00:24:39.784 [i]: Playback [e767d907]: 3 acceptible profiles, best is 'HD Source' [200]
00:24:39.791 [i]: Playback [e767d907]: enabled while video is playing
00:24:39.797 [i]: Playback [e767d907]: playing at 71.9281 [23.976 *3/1] 
00:24:41.652 [i]: Playback [e767d907]: disabled while video is playing
00:24:41.652 [i]: Playback [e767d907]: deleted
00:24:42.801 [i]: VideoPlayer: mpv [Plex.exe] connected, waiting for the video info...

Re: SVP not detecting other players once Plex is lauched

use different pipe name for Plex
or open mpv with mpvSockets lua script

Re: SVP not detecting other players once Plex is lauched

per the guide for setup with Plex for Windows, the pipe used shoud be

input-ipc-server=mpvpipe

i can understand simply changing that, but how do you then specify SVP to pick it up? does it automatically find all pipes? is there a convention to follow? have io missed it somewhere glaringly obvious?

Re: SVP not detecting other players once Plex is lauched

> does it automatically find all pipes?

you can write something like "plexpipe", and modify All settings -> main.setup.mpv_pipe = "mpvpipe,plexpipe", then restart SVP

Re: SVP not detecting other players once Plex is lauched

yep, that did the trick. thanks