edge-playback opens the MPV GUI on Windows

[ichat006]

I am using Windows 10 LTSC. When I execute the command edge-playback --text "Hello, world!", the generated audio plays in the MPV window.

1. For MP3 files, the pop-up window seems unnecessary and even interferes with foreground work. It would be more appropriate to play MP3 files in the background.
2. When executing the above command, a *.vtt file for the audio is automatically generated. How can I suppress the generation of this file? I believe that avoiding its creation would make the command execute faster since I only want to hear the audio.

See Gif demo:

[rany2]

2. How can I suppress the generation of this file? I believe that avoiding its creation would make the command execute faster since I only want to hear the audio.

It doesn't even take a millisecond to generate, so it's not really an issue.

For MP3 files, the pop-up window seems unnecessary and even interferes with foreground work. It would be more appropriate to play MP3 files in the background.

This is only an issue on Windows and I'm not exactly sure what arguments need to be added to mpv to make this behavior stop. Can you try to add --no-audio-display as suggested by mpv-player/mpv#4426 (comment) to the arguments for mpv? You need to do this by adding it to the list of arguments to mpv here:

edge-tts/src/edge_playback/__main__.py

Line 60 in 7c83923

f"--sub-file={vtt_fname}",

[ichat006]

2. How can I suppress the generation of this file? I believe that avoiding its creation would make the command execute faster since I only want to hear the audio.

It doesn't even take a millisecond to generate, so it's not really an issue.

For MP3 files, the pop-up window seems unnecessary and even interferes with foreground work. It would be more appropriate to play MP3 files in the background.

This is only an issue on Windows and I'm not exactly sure what arguments need to be added to mpv to make this behavior stop. Can you try to add --no-audio-display as suggested by mpv-player/mpv#4426 (comment) to the arguments for mpv? You need to do this by adding it to the list of arguments to mpv here:

edge-tts/src/edge_playback/__main__.py

Line 60 in 7c83923

f"--sub-file={vtt_fname}",

Thank you for your reply.
I’m not sure what’s going on, but the TTS service often becomes unavailable, and the generated MP3 files cannot be played. I suspect Microsoft might have implemented regional restrictions. I’m from China. Currently, the TTS service is unavailable, so I’m unable to test whether the playback parameters are effective. I will test them once the TTS service is working again.

[ichat006]

2. How can I suppress the generation of this file? I believe that avoiding its creation would make the command execute faster since I only want to hear the audio.

It doesn't even take a millisecond to generate, so it's not really an issue.

For MP3 files, the pop-up window seems unnecessary and even interferes with foreground work. It would be more appropriate to play MP3 files in the background.

This is only an issue on Windows and I'm not exactly sure what arguments need to be added to mpv to make this behavior stop. Can you try to add --no-audio-display as suggested by mpv-player/mpv#4426 (comment) to the arguments for mpv? You need to do this by adding it to the list of arguments to mpv here:

edge-tts/src/edge_playback/__main__.py

Line 60 in 7c83923

f"--sub-file={vtt_fname}",

I modified the parameters as shown below, but it had no effect; the GUI window still appears:
f"--sub-file={vtt_fname} --no-audio-display",

[rany2]

I modified the parameters as shown below, but it had no effect; the GUI window still appears:
f"--sub-file={vtt_fname} --no-audio-display",

It's supposed to be: f"--sub-file={vtt_fname}", "--no-audio-display",

[rany2]

Actually revisiting this, it could be an MPV bug on Windows only :/

See mpv-player/mpv#4426 (comment)

[ichat006]

Actually revisiting this, it could be an MPV bug on Windows only :/

See mpv-player/mpv#4426 (comment)

I made a new attempt and directly used the following command to play the MP3 file, but the MPV GUI interface did not appear.

mpv hello.mp3

The playback details are not displayed with the command:

mpv hello.mp3 --no-terminal

[ichat006]

Actually revisiting this, it could be an MPV bug on Windows only :/

See mpv-player/mpv#4426 (comment)

Could you review this issue again? There is no problem with displaying the GUI window on Windows. Directly using the above MPV command line does not display a GUI window.