“mpv” is the media player that’s bundled with Anki. It looks like you only get this – mpv timed out, restarting – in the logging sequence sometimes.
When that happens, is there a long delay before the app closes? It’s unusual to see a “timed out” if Anki and mpv close right away. But mpv has also been known to hang when Anki crashes/closes abruptly, so that could be why.
However, I’m much more interested in this:
That’s not a normal part of the startup sequence. Would you be surprised to find out that in the whole internet, that phrase only appears in relation to Anki a handful of times?
- Your post,
- Another user’s post about similar issues – Anki 25.02.4 won't start in Windows - #7 by Godon , and
- a GitHub issue from 2021 [which I’ll note is not long after the original release of 2.1.35 which you can still use] – Support for system proxy settings is incomplete · Issue #1215 · ankitects/anki · GitHub .
So to both you and @Godon – Are you using a Windows proxy server?
This issue was resolved for those users years ago, in 2.1.45 – but it makes me wonder if their environment variable fix / workaround or adjusting your other proxy settings as they described would work for you?
Environment variable workaround
Another workaround is to set the HTTPS_PROXY (or HTTP_PROXY) environment variable:
Set HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1080 "C:\Program Files\Anki\anki.exe"Anki also works fine in this situation.
– Support for system proxy settings is incomplete · Issue #1215 · ankitects/anki · GitHub
Previously I resolved this issue by setting environment variable
HTTP_PROXY = http://ip:port, as suggested by@ Chaoses-Ib.
– Support for system proxy settings is incomplete · Issue #1215 · ankitects/anki · GitHub