Do not clear TUI info during playback

[arbitrary-dev]

mpv Information

mpv v0.40.0 Copyright © 2000-2025 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
libplacebo version: v7.349.0
FFmpeg version: 7.1.1
FFmpeg library versions:
   libavcodec      61.19.101
   libavdevice     61.3.100
   libavfilter     10.4.100
   libavformat     61.7.100
   libavutil       59.39.100
   libswresample   5.3.100
   libswscale      8.3.100

Other Information

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- Issue started after the following happened:

Reproduction Steps

1. Play an audio in terminal UI
2. Press i for info regarding track or F8 to view a playlist
3. Try to read the info...

Expected Behavior

Info printed permanently and not cleared afterwards so that I can calmly read it in full, until requested again or some other player activity requires to redraw TUI.

Actual Behavior

After a short timeout the info is cleared and being a slow reader I get disappointed and required to return back to step 2.

Log File

nope

Sample Files

No response

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• [x] I tested with the latest mpv version to validate that the issue is not already fixed.
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[kasper93]

Press shift+i

[arbitrary-dev]

Okay that toggles on continious rendering of stats in TUI.

Then there's gp for a playlist...

But the question is, why to clear them up on timeout? Why not just leave text alone and printed, so that there's no continious polling of stats.

[arbitrary-dev]

Just found another issue, if I try to select this text (stats with i and playlist opened with either F8 or gp) in terminal, it doesn't work, I mean selection resets because TUI gets continiously redrawn. So I'm unable to select anything an copy.

[kasper93]

It's OSD and in terminal it is printed as status line. Status line is volatile, always has been. There is internal command to flush status line and don't clear it. mp.command("flush-status-line no") though note this is internal and may change in the future.

[guidocella]

Set --term-status-msg to display terminal text permanently.

[arbitrary-dev]

Perhaps it could be made that i flushes the stats, while I uses volatile statusline. Also flush the playlist on F8.