How to watch mpv in tty

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Hello there, I’ve been trying to play videos through the tty like this and this. All discussion of this feature implies that it just works, but I can only get tct (true colour terminal) to work.

Does anyone know how to make it work? Using --vo=drm gave this error:

(+) Video --vid-1 (*) (h264 1920x1080 59.940fps)

(+) Audio --aid-1 --alang=eng (*) (aac 2ch 48000Hz)

[vo/drm] VT GETMODE failed: Inappropriate toctl for device [vo/drm] Failed to set up VT switcher. Terminal switching will be unavailable. [vo/drm/kms] No connected connectors found

[vo/drm] Failed to create KMS.

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (--vo) device.

Video: no video
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What graphics driver do have? Nvida proprietary drivers are going to cause you pain with something like this.

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I have an intel + nvidia optimus laptop but I think I configured that the igpu is used first.

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Okay, so I did some messing around and have found that:
mpv --drm-connector=help lists all cards that can provide drm support. I did that command and got the following output:

Available connectors for card 0 (/dev/dri/card1):

DP-1 (disconnected)

HDMI-A-1 (disconnected)

Available connectors for card 1 (/dev/dri/card®): eDP-1 (connected)

Okay, so that means that mpv has no access to drm when I use mpv --vo=drm , but, cat /sys/class/drm/card0-eDP-1/status returns connected…

If I start mpv with mpv --vo-drm --gpu-context-drm --drm-connector-1.DP-1 file.mp4 it gives somewhat of a different error:

[vo/drm] VT GETMODE failed: Inappropriate toctl for device

[vo/drm] Failed to set up VT switcher. Terminal switching will be unavailable.

[vo/drm] Warning: Selecting a connector by index with drm-connector is deprecated. Use the drm-device option instead.

[vo/drm/kms] No connector with-name DP-1 found [vo/drm/kms] Available connectors for card 1 (/dev/drt/card®):

[vo/drm/kms] eDP-1 (connected) [vo/drm/kms]

[vo/drm] Failed to create KMS.

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (--vo) device.

Video: no video