[Feature Request] Show the player and video thumbnail while playing audio only

[ghost]

So far when you play a video as audio, mpv or vlc run in the background, which is fine if you want to consume less CPU or RAM, but imagine you want to pause or go to a certain minute of the video. This becomes impossible as both players do not show their interface. So... How about implementing this option? Besides being configurable as: audio_player => 1, audio_player_thumbnail => 1, in GTK and CLI.

I attach an image as an example (suppose that the image is the thumbnail of the video and that it plays only the audio):

[ghost]

Ok. I just found out that you can do this in mpv using: --force-window as argument or adding it to your config file (I think in vlc it's also possible, but I can't test it). So I think it is not necessary to implement it having this other option.

[sun95n]

If anyone is interested, you can also reduce the scale factor of the OSC in forced window mode.

[pirate486743186]

the mpv command: mpv audio.m4a --external-file=image.png --vid=1

the --force-window will simply show a green "video".

[sun95n]

the --force-window will simply show a green "video".

Are you sure? force window works fine for me.

Maybe it's your video output driver settings.

[pirate486743186]

yea right.