Linux - MPV is missing Wayland dependency

[lamyergeier]

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HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.2.18-15-g40d2f5c
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Core tap HEAD: 911c679f0c801cc77990e81a3018085fd8a714ea
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Core tap JSON: 15 Apr 14:26 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_BROWSER: firefox
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH: /bin/curl
HOMEBREW_DISPLAY: :0
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: codium
HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 16
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HOMEBREW_SORBET_RUNTIME: set
Homebrew Ruby: 3.1.4 => /mnt/Data/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.1.4/bin/ruby
CPU: 16-core 64-bit unknown_0x6_0x9a
Clang: 17.0.6
Git: 2.44.0 => /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/git
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Kernel: Linux 6.7.6-200.fc39.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Host glibc: 2.38
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/usr/bin/ruby: 3.2.2
glibc: N/A
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gcc: 13.2.0
xorg: N/A

Output of brew doctor

• NOTE: I purposefully appended homebrew path after the system binary path.

$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!
Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin in your PATH.
This means that system-provided programs will be used instead of those
provided by Homebrew. Consider setting your PATH so that
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin occurs before /usr/bin. Here is a one-liner:
  echo 'export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"' >\> /home/lamy/.bash_profile
The following tools exist at both paths:
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Verification

• My brew doctor output says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I ran brew update and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I have resolved all warnings from brew doctor and that did not fix my problem.
• I searched for recent similar issues at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues?q=is%3Aissue and found no duplicates.

What were you trying to do (and why)?

Use mpv on Linux

Description of issue

This issue was reported at MPV repository but developers closed it as the scope of it lies with Homebrew.

Please check: mpv-player/mpv#13893

Diagnosis

Missing Wayland dependency on Linux!

What happened (include all command output)?

mpv --no-config 01-12-02.2019-03-08.QkQapdgAa7o.1440.webm

 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (av1 2560x1440 25.000fps)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus 2ch 48000Hz)
File tags:
 Comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkQapdgAa7o
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (--vo) device.
Video: no video
Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

What did you expect to happen?

There is no video output!

MPV Log file

https://0x0.st/X-DK.txt

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

Installation of MPV with BREW (output)

https://0x0.st/X-DZ.txt

[lamyergeier]

Please add the Wayland dependency as currently no video is displayed when playing on Fedora 40.

[carlocab]

Can you open a PR to update the formula?

[lamyergeier]

@carlocab I am unfamiliar with mpv, I just quoted from the developers of mpv in the above report. Also I am not much familiar with the homebrew and ruby. I was hoping that the person who created the mpv formula could update it.

I am also not sure if just adding that dependency would solve the problem.

Also i saw that Wayland package is already installed with homebrew on Linux (not by mpv formula but by some other formula).

[carlocab]

I was hoping that the person who created the mpv formula could update it.

The formula was added almost 10 years ago in 2d56414, and the author has not contributed to Homebrew/core since then.

Formulae in homebrew/core are maintained by the community, so there isn't really anyone better to try to fix this problem than you! I am happy to try to help you with this, though.

I am also not sure if just adding that dependency would solve the problem.

Also i saw that Wayland package is already installed with homebrew on Linux (not by mpv formula but by some other formula).

Yes, you are correct. mpv does depend transitively on wayland, so adding the dependency is unlikely to be sufficient.

However, can you try to apply this patch and rebuild mpv?

diff --git a/Formula/m/mpv.rb b/Formula/m/mpv.rb
index ec274dcc262..f6a8c2af7dd 100644
--- a/Formula/m/mpv.rb
+++ b/Formula/m/mpv.rb
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ class Mpv < Formula
 
   on_linux do
     depends_on "alsa-lib"
+    depends_on "wayland"
+    depends_on "wayland-protocols"
+    depends_on "libxkbcommon"
   end
 
   def install

To do this, copy the patch above into, say, mpv.patch, and then do:

export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1
brew update
cd "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)"
patch -p1 </path/to/mpv.patch
brew reinstall -sv mpv

Hopefully this should fix your issue. You can unset HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API after doing this.

Let me know if it helps so we can fix the formula. I don't have a Linux machine to test this, so I am unable to try it myself.

[lamyergeier]

@carlocab getting following Log, which states that A full log can be found at /tmp/mpv-20240428-705281-r9t4ca/mpv-0.38.0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt but it does not exists!

$ file /tmp/mpv-20240428-705281-r9t4ca
/tmp/mpv-20240428-705281-r9t4ca: cannot open `/tmp/mpv-20240428-705281-r9t4ca' (No such file or directory)

Log

$ brew reinstall -sv mpv
Warning: building from source is not supported!
You're on your own. Failures are expected so don't create any issues, please!
==> Fetching mpv
==> Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/e55fd45d9a15dca624f78eb71ed0eac8fc0241ed/Formula/m/mpv.rb
######################################################################################################################################################### 100.0%
==> Downloading https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/archive/refs/tags/v0.38.0.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /home/lamy/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/62b9a9757b39204c5943355cf991af8a38542d352b37ed45c8758c2e468167c9--mpv-0.38.0.tar.gz
==> Reinstalling mpv 
/usr/bin/env tar --extract --no-same-owner --file /home/lamy/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/62b9a9757b39204c5943355cf991af8a38542d352b37ed45c8758c2e468167c9--mpv-0.38.0.tar.gz --directory /tmp/homebrew-unpack20240428-705281-lsv8mi
/usr/bin/env cp -pR /tmp/homebrew-unpack20240428-705281-lsv8mi/mpv-0.38.0/. /tmp/mpv-20240428-705281-r9t4ca/mpv-0.38.0
==> meson setup build -Dhtml-build=enabled -Djavascript=enabled -Dlibmpv=true -Dlua=luajit -Dlibarchive=enabled -Duchardet=enabled --sysconfdir=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/etc/mpv --datadir=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mpv/0.38.0/share/mpv --mandir=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mpv/0.38.0/share/man --prefix=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mpv/0.38.0 --libdir=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mpv/0.38.0/lib --buildtype=release --wrap-mode=nofallback
The Meson build system
Version: 1.4.0
Source dir: /tmp/mpv-20240428-705281-r9t4ca/mpv-0.38.0
Build dir: /tmp/mpv-20240428-705281-r9t4ca/mpv-0.38.0/build
Build type: native build
Project name: mpv
Project version: 0.38.0

meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Compiler gcc-11 cannot compile programs.

A full log can be found at /tmp/mpv-20240428-705281-r9t4ca/mpv-0.38.0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt

READ THIS: https://docs.brew.sh/Troubleshooting

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/mnt/Data/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:2876:in `block in system': Failed executing: meson setup build -Dhtml-build=enabled -Djavascript=enabled -Dlibmpv=true -Dlua=luajit -Dlibarchive=enabled -Duchardet=enabled --sysconfdir=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/etc/mpv --datadir=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mpv/0.38.0/share/mpv --mandir=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mpv/0.38.0/share/man --prefix=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mpv/0.38.0 --libdir=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mpv/0.38.0/lib --buildtype=release --wrap-mode=nofallback (BuildError)
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[carlocab]

Try looking for the log somewhere inside $(brew --cache), probably $(brew --cache)/Logs/mpv (or similar).

The whole mpv directory should contain logs that are useful.

[lamyergeier]

Logs: https://0x0.st/XHgn.zip