Intro to MPV + Lua Scripts

In this video I show you how to install and use some lua scripts with mpv

main MPV lua scripts page
Thumbnail script
crop script

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[mathematicalninja]

When you type mpv followed by the YouTube video link and play close attention to it, you can hear google screaming

[GooogleGoglee]

"..JavaScript scripts.." my brain stopped in the echo 😂

[soham]

Even without lua, mpv is the best media player by far

[calebmullan]

Watching a Mental Outlaw video, from Youtube, through MPV, via a Lua script, on my Mac, running Kubuntu...

[koonoho]

For the thumbnail script to work, you have to replace line 525 in the server script with: "--o=" .. output_path
Other scripts I use are
youtube-quality: to change the resolution/codec of youtube videos (my own much improved fork of the original).
reload: to restart loading of online video at the current position (in case the buffering gets stuck for whatever reason)
autoload: when opening a file in a folder, it automatically adds the other files in the playlist before and after the current file, sorted alphabetically
betterchapters: goes to next playlist entry when skipping to the next chapter while already being in the last chapter
show_chapters: toggle if chapters are shown in the bottom left corner (useful for podcast-like content)

[fawzanfawzi]

I've been needing this ever since my autism reached the point where I can't use anything other than Arch Linux.

[youtubeuser]

I’m familiar with MPV that’s how I watch my hood videos without an age restriction.

[grimslade]

@4:27... Right there, you can tell that the "penguin meme" took him by surprise, forcing him to process the absurdity for a moment. That's fabulous!
- And cheers for the continued great content man. :)

[amnottabs]

3:15 wasn't expecting a Joshiraku screenshot there, whoever's in charge is based and Kumetapilled

[ladyViviaen]

lua is pretty cool, it's soo embeddable, i myself embedded it in rust and c as a test and it was great

[Fadexz]

mpv is my favourite player, nice and simple, and is snappy, plus does what you want it to do.
The scripts I use are:
- thumbnail preview thing
- open file dialog thing

Another useful one would be sponsorblock.

I’m not really into command line stuff so I think it’s much easier to use a file browser.

[randomdude]

I was looking for a cropping function for so long.. I was certain mpv was able to do it (and you kinda can with --video-zoom and --video-pan-x/y but it's just not very convenient even if the shortcuts are set up), but I just never found it. The fact that it's literally called "crop" makes me kinda depressed, ngl. But glad I found it now! Thank you!

[GatoCoder]

Good video, I can now watch terry davis videos with roblox script api while I stay hidden from those darn bioluminescent government agent spies tracking me

(Jokes aside, good video)

[LowLevelLemmy]

So hyped to see this was made by mental outlaw. MPV FOREVER

[your_new_sjw_waifu]

MPV has completely replaced VLC for me

[nootics]

I discovered mpv and scripts for it in language learning communities and I've been loving it since. You probably won't find use for it, but the script I've been using is immersive by ben kerman on github. It lets me make flashcards for another application called anki from media and subtitles on the fly.

This and the fact that it has so many keyboard shortcuts make mpv easily the best player for me

[luuuuuuuuuuuul]

One thing I miss from VLC is that when browsing my meme folder, instead of creating a new instance when clicking on a video, it would replace the currently playing video. I miss that. Do you know of any script that lets you do that?

[LinuxPlayer]

mpv is trully amazing ! I didn't know this scripts exists

[nekoill]

Man, mpv is cool enough as it is, I feel like with lua you can turn it into Emacs or something.
Also, this is the best Linux channel here imo. All the useful info, and then there's also memes, goddamn.

[przemokot]

You've recommended MPV as best video player for linux couple times. What about audio? Is there any music player, especially working in background, you recommend?