[factorymoo]

Linux n00b over here... apologies for the silly question but I can't seem to make this work

I enter spongebob-cli

Then when it prompts me to enter an episode number, I can't seem to get it to play from within the terminal itself

let's say I want to play episode 1:

1 --mpv --vo=tct --quiet

Doesn't seem to work. Any help to get past this would be greatly appreciated

[ginko]

Did you add them as separate strings like this?

  subprocess.run(["mpv", "--vo=tct", "--quiet", DirectLink])

Otherwise your terminal may be missing true-color terminal mode or the mpv in your distro doesn't have that output plugin. (You can check with "mpv --vo=help")

[kkirsche]

If, like me, you forget where to split the command and arguments, shlex.split in the standard library can split the raw string for you.

[Doxin]

Rule of thumb is every space, except ones you'd normally put between quotes. so e.g.

    foo quix-quiz "bar baz"

turns into

    ["foo", "quix-quiz", "bar baz"]

Though do note that you don't get an extra set of quotes on "bar baz" which is slightly confusing, but makes sense once you think about it a bit.

[jhugo]

You need to edit spongebob-cli to add the arguments to the code where it calls mpv. It sounds like you're just running it and providing the arguments to its prompt.