DOCS/man/options: document @ syntax for --input-ipc-server

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nanahi authored and Kacper Michajłow committed 2026-04-06 18:31:27 +02:00
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``--input-ipc-server=<filename>``
Enable the IPC support and create the listening socket at the given path.
On Linux and Unix, the given path is a regular filesystem path. On Windows,
named pipes are used, so the path refers to the pipe namespace
On Linux and Unix, if the first character of the path is ``@``, then it
is internally replaced with a null character, which represents an abstract
socket address on Linux, but can have unspecified behavior on other UNIX
platforms. Otherwise, the given path is a regular filesystem path.
On Windows, named pipes are used, so the path refers to the pipe namespace
(``\\.\pipe\<name>``). If the ``\\.\pipe\`` prefix is missing, mpv will add
it automatically before creating the pipe, so
``--input-ipc-server=/tmp/mpv-socket`` and