Can't build from source - meson: error unrecognized arguments: --enable-libmpv-shared

[Retrograde-i486]

Trying to build from source but install fails at the 6th step:

./rebuild -j4

With this error:

make: Leaving directory '/home/user/Downloads/mpv-build/ffmpeg_build' Using mpv options: --enable-libmpv-shared usage: meson [-h] {setup,configure,dist,install,introspect,init,test,wrap,subprojects,rewrite,compile,devenv,env2mfile,help} ... meson: error: unrecognized arguments: --enable-libmpv-shared

Found a mention that meson stopped accepting unknown arguments in v0.61 https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/ssxk5x/meson_build_failed_due_to_unknown_options/hxf0z28/

[iwalton3]

You have to use this now:

-Dlibmpv=true

[Retrograde-i486]

Sorry to bump my old issue, used your suggestion and got plex-mpv-shim to build successfully this time. Can the instructions on the main project page be updated to this?

You can build mpv from source to get better codec support. Execute the following:

1). sudo pip3 install --upgrade python-mpv 2). sudo apt install autoconf automake libtool libharfbuzz-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libvdpau-dev libva-dev mesa-common-dev libegl1-mesa-dev yasm libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libuchardet-dev zlib1g-dev libfribidi-dev git libgnutls28-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsdl2-dev cmake wget python g++ libluajit-5.1-dev 3). git clone https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build.git 4). cd mpv-build 5). echo -Dlibmpv=true > mpv_options 6). ./rebuild -j4 7). sudo ./install 8). sudo ldconfig