A Way to Pause and Stop mpv

[Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim]

Provide a way to pause and stop the playing without just brutely killing the process may be like this
~ ❯ ps -ef | grep mpv | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n1 kill -9

[Mostafa Wael]

Well, it would be better if there are shortcuts for pausing and resuming.
Like, press p to pause and r to resume.
What do you think?

[Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim]

I actually had a very similar idea which is to have the q-cli be runing in a kind of a watching state like if you wish rustlings and user will be able to use commands like pause/stop instead of just seeing Fetching Data statement. Also, I though of another idea which is to have the q-cli --(paus/stop) to pause/stop the current running q-cli process if any. Which do you think is relatively easy to begin implemeting?

[Gheiath]

I think passing keystrokes to mpv will do best if possible.

[Mostafa Wael]

I actually had a very similar idea which is to have the q-cli be runing in a kind of a watching state like if you wish rustlings and user will be able to use commands like pause/stop instead of just seeing Fetching Data statement. Also, I though of another idea which is to have the q-cli --(paus/stop) to pause/stop the current running q-cli process if any. Which do you think is relatively easy to begin implemeting?

I think a watching state would be more user-friendly.

[Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim]

What about showing the actually showing the mpv running app? Then the user can use its GUI to do the job.

[Mostafa Wael]

When we developed the app, we agreed that we wanted it to be as simple and minimal as possible.
showing MVP running was against this. we agreed that we wanted all the operations to be done through q-cli directly.

[Ahmed Ihab]

Issue fixed, now you can toggle between pause and resume using p button
and also can exist easily using q
check this PR #15