Posted March 12, 2021
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at least it works just fine here playing a mp3 track.
mpv will only try to initialize video output if the media file contains a video track.
And since by default it will choose X for video output that will fail if Xorg isn't running.
But telling to ignore the video (or use a console based render) will still work.
if the extra commandline argument annoys you, you can set up the config file to always ignore the video.
just write "video=no" to ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
(might want to double check the exact config path)