automaticaly showing subtitles with mpv

Question

On my vifmrc I've setted mpv as my video player.
When running mpv on a normal shell, it manages to automatically load the corresponding subtitle file (the one with the same name as the video file and a subtitle extension).
Sadly when using it on vifm it seems like mpv doesn't find this file.

that's my vifmrc:

filextype *.avi,*.mp4,*.wmv,*.dat,*.3gp,*.ogv,*.mkv,*.mpg,*.mpeg,*.vob,
     \*.fl[icv],*.m2v,*.mov,*.webm,*.ts,*.mts,*.m4v,*.r[am],*.qt,*.divx,
     \*.as[fx]
    \ {View using ffplay}
    \ ffplay -fs -autoexit %f,
    \ {View using Dragon}
    \ dragon %f:p,
    \ {View using mpv}
    \ mpv %f,
fileviewer *.avi,*.mp4,*.wmv,*.dat,*.3gp,*.ogv,*.mkv,*.mpg,*.mpeg,*.vob,
      \*.fl[icv],*.m2v,*.mov,*.webm,*.ts,*.mts,*.m4v,*.r[am],*.qt,*.divx,
      \*.as[fx]
	  \ mpv %f,

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Answer 1

I'm not sure that fileviewer with mpv %f makes sense. :fileviewer specifies what command to run on :view, which expects textual output.

mpv %f is the third in the :filextype command, maybe it's not being run? Order defines priority. Try using:

filextype *.avi,*.mp4,*.wmv,*.dat,*.3gp,*.ogv,*.mkv,*.mpg,*.mpeg,*.vob,
         \*.fl[icv],*.m2v,*.mov,*.webm,*.ts,*.mts,*.m4v,*.r[am],*.qt,*.divx,
         \*.as[fx]
           \ {View using mpv}
           \ mpv %f,
           \ {View using ffplay}
           \ ffplay -fs -autoexit %f,
           \ {View using Dragon}
           \ dragon %f:p,

You can also make sure that file is run using mpv by running :file and
picking mpv from the menu. Try this, I guess you view videos with something else when picking them inside vifm.

Comments

thanks for your help that was the actual problem (I didn't even know I have ffplay installed)
I registered so I can upvote you