Is there a way to wait for other script to finish?

[barraIhsan]

So I have a script that will automatically switch track to the desired language, similar to po5's trackselect.

That of course will trigger the sid property.

Then, I have another script to cycle subtitle track, and it will get the "current" sid and any other track that matches the language.

For example: I set it to es. Then it will cycle the current sid and the sid that have es lang.
The problem is that the second (cycle track) script get the current sid before my trackselect script. So for example I have 3 sub track here

• (1) English
• (2) Japanese
• (3) Spanish
  My cycle track script will see that the current sid is 1 (default), then my trackselect script ran and change the track into 2 (japanese). But the problem here is that my cycle track script will cycle english and spanish instead of japanese and spanish.

My current approach is to observe aid and sid property and it will unobserve those property when cycle function called.

[mrfragger]

local clock = os.clock
function sleep(n)-- seconds
local t0 = clock()
while clock() - t0 <= n do end
end

No idea how to do & || ; in lua though.

then just call the sleep function. Here it sleeps for 15 secs before deleting the sub (os.remove)

      local demofontnosave_new = (movie_path..".demofontnosave"..sub_ext)

      mp.osd_message("Sub converted to DemoFont")
      print("Sub converted to DemoFont")
      mp.commandv('sub-add', demofontnosave_new)
      sleep(15)
      os.remove(demofontnosave_new) 
end

[natural-harmonia-gropius]

Use script-message command and mp.register_script_message to listen.

https://github.com/stax76/mpv-scripts/blob/main/command_palette.lua#L127
https://github.com/natural-harmonia-gropius/recent-menu/blob/master/recentmenu.lua#L430

[barraIhsan]

Ahh using script-message I would look into it!