gnome-mpv and save position on quit

CorvusRuber

--save-position-on-quit
Always save the current playback position on quit. When this file is played again later, the player will seek to the old playback position on start. This does not happen if playback of a file is stopped in any other way than quitting. For example, going to the next file in the playlist will not save the position, and start playback at beginning the next time the file is played.

This behavior is disabled by default, but is always available when quitting the player with Shift+Q.

mpv behaves according to documentation and resumes playback as intended.
Gnome-mpv stubbornly refuses to resume from the last position: configuration files, the option check from preferences, the extra options from the miscellanous tab all get ignored.
If launched from the command line I get the message "Option --save-position-on-quit unknown".
Am I doing something wrong or it's a bug ?

aleksvor

I have checked yesterday that adding "--save-position-on-quit" to extra options in gnome-mpv works for me.
First I would check the options for spelling errors and ensure that you don't add the "--" in the configs (double hyphen is needed only in command line, but not in config files). Can you share the configs that you tried to apply and command that you tried to run?

CorvusRuber

aleksvor
Tried right now.
--save-position-on-quit in extra options gets ignored.
the config file has only one line in it:
save-position-on-quit and (guess what?) doesn't work.
The command is a simple gnome-mpv --save-position-on-quit <testfile> (and yes, I've tried with different files with the same effect), and I get back the "option unknown" message.
Straight on mpv works as it should.
I'm starting to get a bit perplexed....
EDIT: I'm on a fully updated Solus Budgie system with current kernel, of course.

aleksvor

CorvusRuber OK, I will give this a more thorough testing this evening. I've submitted mpv 0.30 last week, I should check if this issue is connected to this update.

aleksvor

CorvusRuber How old is your gnome-mpv installation? I've found a similar issue on celluloid tracker. It was fixed a few releases ago, but if you have an old installation you may still have too restrictive permissions on gnome-mpv config folder.
Try checking permissions on ~/.config/gnome-mpv directory - if it's 0600, then it may be the culprit.

CorvusRuber

aleksvor
Ok, thanks.

CorvusRuber

aleksvor
I don't remember exactly, but I'll say at least a good six months old.
And no, it's not permissions. I've seen the issue, checked the directory (it was set to 600), set permissions to 755 (while muttering "Gotcha, you annoying bastard")....... and got nothing. I'm fairly sure that there's something wrong in my setup, but I'll be damned if I know what....

CorvusRuber

Got it, the github issue was the key.
Specifically, not only the .config/gnome-mpv directory should be set to 755 (as the issue itself says), but even the watch_later subdirectory.
Now it works