From ece794d90572a853f5d2967117cebd050c30e8a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:54:31 +0100 Subject: 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. --- DOCS/man/input.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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. -- cgit v1.2.3