mpv doesn't exit

[angousana]

with lua if i run os.execute('sleep 10000') in background without blocking the video I can't exit with q or ctrl + c, even if i try to bind k with os.execute('pkill -9 mpv') it waits for the sleep command to finish, is there any way i can start a new thread or something?

[guidocella]

Pressing ctrl+c twice should quit.

[angousana]

Yes that would work, but the sleep command was like a metaphorical command, i made an auto-sub script and it downloads all available subs at once but sometimes i start the wrong episode and when i click q or ctrl+c mpv freezes until all the subs are downloaded, ctrl+c closes the os.execute but not the whole function so it just downloads the next sub in queue, is there maybe a way to check if I've pressed ctrl+c?, i tried binding a key to just kill -9 the whole mpv but that doesn't freeze mpv it just waits for the other functions to finish and is executed after all the downloading is done

[guidocella]

You can place this in a different script:

mp.register_event('shutdown', function ()
    os.exit()
end)

[angousana]

Thanks that worked!

[angousana]

mpv still hangs when i try to play the next/prev file in the playlist

[angousana]

this worked

for item in findSubs() do
    if mp.get_property_bool('user-data/autosub/abandon_old_instance') then
        return mp.set_property_bool('user-data/autosub/abandon_old_instance', false)
    end
    
    ... --Download subs
end

-- in another script file
mp.add_hook('on_unload', 0, function() mp.set_property_bool('user-data/autosub/abandon_old_instance', true) end)
mp.add_hook('on_preloaded', 0, function()
    if mp.get_property_bool('user-data/autosub/abandon_old_instance') then
        mp.set_property_bool('user-data/autosub/abandon_old_instance', false)
    end
end)