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| author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2015-11-29 17:54:31 +0100 |
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| committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2015-11-29 17:56:08 +0100 |
| commit | ece794d90572a853f5d2967117cebd050c30e8a1 (patch) | |
| tree | b7122129fa843f94d909e2c7f2d5c6b7ebac2804 /DOCS/man/input.rst | |
| parent | 3fa76c84bee5786518d8fb855d0c36f8598263d9 (diff) | |
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manpage: explain behavior of "path" property
This seems to confuse users pretty often, but I'm not going to change
its behavior.
See e.g. #2541.
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/input.rst b/DOCS/man/input.rst index 1a59f283fe..72004bf303 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/input.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/input.rst @@ -860,7 +860,11 @@ Property list quantities: fps and possibly rounded timestamps.) ``path`` - Full path of the currently played file. + Full path of the currently played file. Usually this is exactly the same + string you pass on the mpv command line or the ``loadfile`` command, even + if it's a relative path. If you expect an absolute path, you will have to + determine it yourself, for example by using the ``working-directory`` + property. ``media-title`` If the currently played file has a ``title`` tag, use that. |