A Local MPV server using libmpv that you can control from other devices in local network

[Atreyagaurav]

Hi all,

I had experience with mpv-mpris which allows us to do simple things like play/pause mpv. So, I was thinking of something a little more extensive. I know about socket, but that's local, and I wanted a use case where anyone could just scan a QR code and then add their songs to the queue, or change songs, control playback in home parties.

Here is the repo. I made it using rust for ease of coding. But that might give a tiny problem with libmpv compilation. I'd have used libmpv from C directly, but making the Tcp server in C might have been complicated, and I don't want it to crash, so I went with rust.

https://github.com/Atreyagaurav/local-mpv

I'm not that knowledgeable about the web-development and security. So I made a basic controller, but I think it does the job well. I would appreciate some people to test it and give some feedback.

The program runs mpv in idle mode through libmpv, and then also runs a single threaded web-server in the same scope, so you can get the Web-App through the server, and control the mpv through different POST requests.