Simulate a key press from command line

[Kabouik]

Is it possible to simulate a key press using a command line option? I would like to have the playlist view (F8) opened by default, and to prevent it from hiding after a short time.

F8 shows the list in terminal, sixel, and GUI, so that's exactly what I need since I am writing a script where users would switch between these views. However I would need it to be programmatic instead of a keybind. Is there an equivalent option, or alternatively, can I make mpv believe I pressed F8 without external tools?

[guidocella]

--input-commands='show-text ${playlist} 4000'

[Kabouik]

Thank you!

Is input-command dependent on some specific build option? I'm using mpv 0.37.0 on two distinct machines, one x64_86 running Guix, and one aarch64 running Droidian (Debian on an Android kernel), and only the latter has support for input-command. The other shows:

Error parsing option input-commands (option not found)
Setting commandline option --input-commands=show-text ${playlist} 4000 failed.
Exiting... (Fatal error)

[guidocella]

It's from mpv 0.38.

[Kabouik]

Indeed, I mistakenly thought my Droidian machine had v0.37.0 but you're right, it's v0.38.0. In the mean time, given that showing the playlist in terminal shows broken character sequences (#5868) and cannot be worked around without altering mpv sources, I gave up on the idea to show the playlist by default, and instead just list a beautified version of the lines in the playlist file mpv is being playing. It lacks the dynamic indicator of the current song, but hey.

Thank you for the precious help!

[guidocella]

The playlist printing is fixed in mpv 0.38