User Scripts (original) (raw)

Here is a list of scripts that users of mpv have published, adding functionality that is not part of the core mpv player. Most of these scripts are unofficial 3rd party scripts. Anyone can add their own script by editing this wiki. On GitHub mpv scripts are tagged as mpv-script.

• abs-screenshot
  Uses Exiftool to get the "Date/Time Original" and saves a screenshot with the name being the actual time the video was taken.
• acompressor
  Dynamic range compressor using acompressor ffmpeg filter with controls to dynamically adjust parameters.
• adevice-list
  Interractive audio-device list menu.
• aspeed.lua
  Multi-stereo speed randomization & tri-color clocks. Applies arbitrary speed formula & has chipmunk mode for left-channel. Also has double-mute insta-toggle. Primary channel may be left or right. A filterchain applies to all speakers - each its own mpv. Has many script-messages. For mpv v0.34→v0.38, SMPlayer, Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, YouTube, mp4, mp3, jpg, etc. But no randomization for Android. (Example clock).
• audio-balance
  Port of mpv's balance property to FFmpeg lavfi pan filter.
• audio-dupe
  Runs a child process to play a second audio stream. Synced through named pipe. Recommend using with cycle-adevice to change the output device of the parent process.
• audio-file-keys
  Automatically apply key bindings when playing audio files.
• Audio WebDAV & Sub WebDAV
  Auto connection of external subtitles and sound, using the "WEBDAV" protocol. The connection is explicit due to explicitly specifying folders on the WebDAV server.
• autochapters
  Automatically finds chapters for your anime files.
• autocomplex.lua
  Animated accurate stereo spectrum overlay, with volume bars. Has many options for showfreqs, showvolume, moving overlays, colormixes, normalizers, interpolation, etc. Easy to distinguish stereo from mono. Has many script-messages. For mpv v0.34→v0.38, SMPlayer, Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, YouTube, mp4, mp3, etc. Example of dual-complex.
• autocrop
  Automatically crop the video by using lavfi's cropdetect filter to detect black bars.
• autocrop.lua
  Variation crops black bars off videos & images while maintaining center in horizontal & vertical. Double-mute toggles the crop & auto_aspect. Has tolerance options, & varies limit (& start/end limits) with media-title. Can display all cropdetect or bbox metadata. Handles transparent input. Has many script-messages. For mpv v0.34→v0.38, SMPlayer, Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, YouTube, mp4, mp3, jpg, etc. Example of auto_aspect btwn 16:9 & 4:3.
• autodeint
  Automatically deinterlace the video by using lavfi's idet filter to detect interlaced content.
• auto-keep-gui-open
  Intelligently switches mpv's "keep-open" behavior based on whether you are running in video-mode or audio-only mode.
• auto-mode
  Allows to automatically switch between video, audio and image mode.
• autoload
  Automatically load playlist entries before and after the currently playing file, by scanning the directory.
• autoloop
  Automatically loops files that are under a given duration (default 5 seconds).
• automask.lua
  Applies filterchain to animated masked region with inversion (blinking) & invisibility. geq uses any formula. Smooth toggle with double-mute. Comes with 14 examples, including blinking monacle, binacles, pentagon, spinning triangle, scanning visors etc. Has many script-messages. For mpv v0.34→v0.38, SMPlayer, Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, YouTube, mp4, mp3, jpg, etc. Example mask.
• auto-save-state
  Periodically saves progress with write-watch-later-config, and also cleans up the watch later data after the file is finished playing (so playlists may continue at the correct file).
• autosave
  Periodically saves "watch later" data during playback, rather than only saving on quit. Newer fork: https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/2f71a97fb85ed42146f6d9f522bc34ef
• autoselect-forced-sub
  Automatically select forced subtitles in a different way.
• autospeed
  To adjust monitor refresh rate and video speed for almost 1:1 playback. (*nix)
• autospeedwin
  To adjust monitor refresh rate and video speed for almost 1:1 playback. (Windows)
• autosub
  Fully automatic subtitle downloading. No hotkeys required.
  Clear setup instructions for Windows, Mac and Linux.
• autosub
  Automatically download subtitles using subliminal.
• autosubsync
  Automatically sync subtitles using ffsubsync.
• betterchapters (update)
  Loads the next or previous playlist entry if there are no more chapters in the seek direction.
• blackout
  A fast crossplatform boss-key, but without window minimization (and possible problems with some VO drivers).
• blur-edges
  Replace black bars with a blurry copy of the video
• bookmarker-menu
  A bookmarker menu to manage all your bookmarks in MPV, based on mpv-bookmarker but with a menu
• bookmark
  Record and resume last play in current playing folder
• boss-key
  Minimise and pause video at the same time. Windows/Linux. Eliminated the time lag in previous versions.
• **boss-key-waylnad**Minimise and pause video at the same time in Linux through xdg-portals.
• btfs-hook
  Allows streaming torrents using FUSE via btfs.
• btfs-stream
  Allows streaming torrents using btfs. As far as I can tell, it is much simpler than the above scripts (no long shell script execution) and much more configurable (the other scripts have no settings). This is much slower than using webtorrent though, so I recommend using webtorrent-hook instead.
• celebi
  An optimized script to restore properties from past sessions. Alternative to persist-properties and remember-props scripts.
• censor
  Skip over parts of videos you don't want (others) to view
• channel mixer
  A set of keybindings using a modifier (Shift or Ctrl) and the function keys (F8-F12) to can adjust the mixing level of surround channels on the fly.
• chapter-converter
  Converts timestamps from YouTube format ("00:00 chapter title") to MPV chapter format (FFmpeg metadata).
• chapter-make-read
• Automatically read an load the namesake external chapter file with extension of CHP.
• Temporarily mark the current playback position as a chapter so you can seek to it later. Also allows writing current chapters as CHP or XML. Based on createchapter.
• chapters_for_mpv
  Add, remove and edit chapters of the currently played media, be it video or audio, local file or a stream. Chapters you create can be saved into a separate text file and automatically loaded when you open the same media file again.
• chapterskip
  Automatically skip chapters based on title.
• chapter-list
  Interractive chapter-list menu.
• chapters-menu
  List all chapters of current video, search and choose any.
• clipboard
  Provides a set of generic commands to interact with the clipboard. Specifically it allows user to copy arbitrary text to the clipboard and provides the ability to paste the contents of the clipboard into other commands.
• command_palette
  Searchable menu for bindings, playlist, chapters, profiles, all tracks, audio tracks, video tracks, subtitle tracks, secondary subtitle tracks, subtitle lines, commands, properties, options, audio devices, Blu-ray titles, stream quality, aspect ratio, recent files.
• control
  Various features mainly for controlling playback.
• copy to music
  Copies the current media file you're playing to a predefined directory, and plays the next entry in the playlist (Unix-like)
• copyTime
  Get the current time of the video and copy it to the clipboard with the format HH:MM:SS.MS .
• copyStuff
  Copy to clipboard the filename or URL, full filename path, current video time, current displayed subtitle text, video duration/metadata.
  Based on Arieleg's mpv-copyTime.
• copy-paste-URL
  Paste URLs directly from clipboard into mpv.
• countdown
  Display a countdown on OSD for the final seconds of the video (or music file).
• cp-paste-URL
  a fork of copy-paste-URL with support for linux.
• Tcl/Tk context menu
  Configurable context-menu based on Tcl/Tk, for *nix/Windows and probably macOS too.
• change-screen-by-aspect-ratio
  Change the active fs-screen based on video's aspect ratio (for systems with monitors in landscape and portrait orientations)
• clock
  Constantly show current time on the lower left corner of the video screen.
• clipshot
  Screenshot the video (with subs, without subs or the whole window) and copy it to the clipboard. For Windows, Linux/BSD and MacOs
• config-saver
  Saves current audio track, subtitle track, subtitle position, etc. for all videos in the folder.
• confluence
  Open magnet links using confluence HTTP service. Recommended to use modified script for TorrServer instead.
• contact-sheet
  Display thumbnails of the current file in the style of a contact sheet
• convert_script
  Script to quickly convert and crop videos from within mpv, with a GUI.
• coverart
  Automatically load external music cover art
• copy-permalink
  Copy mpv --time=<current-position> <path-playing> to clipboard. Useful for sharing when playing URLs.
• copy-subtitle
  Copies currently displayed subtitle line to clipboard. Cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux)
  Video demonstration
• copy-timestamp
  Copies current timecode in HH:MM:SS.MS format to clipboard. Cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux)
  Based on Arieleg's mpv-copyTime
  Video demonstration
• createchapter
  Temporarily mark the current playback position as a chapter so you can seek to it later. Also allows writing current chapters as XML.
• crop
  Crop the video by defining the target rectangle with the cursor
• cropmode
  Adds a keyboard-oriented mode for cropping, outputting the result in a format suitable for ffmpeg.
• curvesman
  Manipulate color curves filter of FFmpeg with hotkeys. Brighten up color, change color temperature/tone, hopefully more. Adjust yellow light tone to white light tone.
• cycle-audio-device
  Cycle through available audio devices with key binds.
• cycle-commands
  Allows input.conf commands to be cycled through with keybinds.
• cycle-deinterlace-pullup
  Cycle between deinterlacing, pullup (IVTC), and both filters off.
• cycle-denoise
  Cycle between lavfi's denoise filters (press n)
• cycle_messages
  Cycle between custom OSD messages.
• cycle-through-existing
  Cycle through existing video/audio/subtitle tracks, skipping the "none" option.
• cycle-video-rotate
  Allows you to perform video rotation which perfectly cycles through all 360 degrees without any glitches.
• dbvol
  Replaces the default volume controls with a decibel (dB) scale instead of arbitrary percentages.
• dessubdb
  Download automatically subtitles from the thesubdb.com using DESSubdb.
• delete-current-file
  Move the currently playing file instantly to the recycle bin.
• delete-file
  Provides the ability to delete files being played through mpv
• locate-file
  Locate current media file on your OS file browser
• deframe
  It removes the frame of youtube videos (press g)
• delogo
  Remove channel logo from videos
• drag-to-pan
  Pan the current video or image with the cursor.
• drcbox
  Dynamic Audio Normalizer filter with visual feedback.
• dualsubs utils
  Auto load dual subs; Auto reload dual subs; Swap primary/secondary subs position; Merge dual subs to one ASS sub.
• dvd-browser
  A script to browse and load DVD titles using the lsdvd command-line utility
• dynamic-crop
  Dynamically crop the video by using lavfi's cropdetect filter to detect hard-coded black bars for Ultra Wide Screen (21:9) or any screen different from 16:9 (phone/old TV).
• dyn_menu
  Context Menu script for mpv, with support for loading menu from input.conf.
• easycrop
  Manually crop a video during playback.
• encode
  Re-encode or remux part of the current video. Can also preserve some filters, such as "crop".
• equalizer
  5-bands equalizer with colorful display.
• evafast
  Fast-forwarding and seeking on a single key, with quality of life features like slowing down a bit when subtitles are shown.
• excerpt
  Allows you to quickly create excerpts from media files, you just have to set begin and end markers.
• excessive-history
  Excessive played media logger. Logs file name, time, and which parts were played. Will generate a history.txt in the mpv config folder. Only tested on Windows.
• exit-fullscreen
  If you use --keep-open=yes, this script exits fullscreen mode when the playback reaches the end of file/playlist.
• epgtv
  Simple EPG information for IPTV M3U playlist in mpv.
• **fade-on-exit**Adds an additional key binding Ctrl-Q that, like Q, exits playback, but gracefully fades to black first instead of just cutting the video.
• fastforward
  Instead of skipping forward in media files, speed up the playback for a few seconds. Playback speed decays back to 1x after a few seconds. Tap rapidly or hold down to go faster.
• fast-forward
  Another fast-forward plugin with some added features and a bit more customization options.
• ff-silence
  Fast forward through silences and quiet parts of audio. This is especially useful on videos where the speaker uses many long pauses.
• filenavigator
  Navigate directories and open files from your system.
• file-browser
  A script that implements an interactive file browser on the OSD, which allows one to browse their system and open or append files and folders to the playlist. The user can specify keybinds to perform custom commands on items and can download addons for advanced additional behaviour.
• file-rating
  Write a star rating to the filename of the currently playing file.
• filter-test
  Test mpv/FFmpeg video filter(vf) strings with editable popup dialog.
• find_subtitles
  (Down)load subtitles with subliminal.
• firequalizer15
  Linear phase 15-bands equalizer.
• fix_sub_timing
  Compute the correct speed/delay of subtitles by manually synching two points in time.
• force-window-profile
  Applies the force-window profile when force-window is set (i.e. when starting mpv from the .desktop file)
• fpsadjust
  Automatically adjust playback speed to synchronize the video to the display if possible (eg. by adjusting 23.976 Hz to 24 Hz for better compatibility with a 60 Hz display).Obsolete: mpv now has a native display-sync option.
• fuzzydir
  Allows using wildcards for sub-file-paths and audio-file-paths.
• gallery-dl_hook
  Load online image galleries (imgur, etc) as playlists using gallery-dl.
• gestures
  Touchscreen and mouse gestures for mpv.
• **gnome-inhibit**Prevent the screen from blanking under GNOME+Wayland while a video is playing.
• gpufreq
  Show current and maximum GPU frequencies for GPUs using the DRM stack on Linux.
• groupwatch_sync
  Quickly get back in sync with a group watch by adjusting playback speed.
• guess-media-title
  Uses guessit to detect a media title by filename and set force-media-title variable. Useful for getting cleaner screenshot file names.
• histogram
  Exposes a configurable way to overlay ffmpeg histograms in mpv. There is a substantial amount of config available.
• history
  Writes date, time, playtime and filename to a log file:
  10.09.2022 19:50 3 D:\Samples\Big Buck Bunny.mkv
• history
  Autosave played media items in an SQLite database, restore last played position, select (with dmenu(1)) and play item from history. Very simple, easy to customize/modify (no options, just edit the code).
• history-bookmark
  Create a history file to store the episode we watched last time. And let us easily jump to the video we watched last time.
• KDialog-open-files
  Use KDE's KDialog to add files to playlist, subtitles to playing video or open URLs.
• zenity-open-files
  Use GTK's zenity to add files to playlist, subtitles to playing video or open URLs.
• mpv-youtube-search
  Use Zenity and youtube-dl to search youtube videos.
• mpv-playlist-kdialog
  Use KDE's KDialog or GTK's zenity to show current playlist or select playlist entry.
• image-config
  A configuration to use mpv as an image viewer.
• image-viewer
  Configurations, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer.
• Immersive
  Versatile language learning script for generating Anki notes/cards with dictionary definitions, audio clips and screenshots from the current video, and word pronunciation audio. Also includes some other features that are useful for language immersion.
• **lang-learner**Turn MPV into language learner tool. Includes: AB-loop current subtitle or auto loop each one, quick switch between lang you know and lang you are learning, forward to browser (dictionaries, translators), record for future extra learning, export to external script for integrations, and a bit more.
• input-event
  Script for Enhanced input.conf with better, conflict-free, low-latency event mechanism.
• interactive-video
  Script for watching interactive videos (such as Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch).
• interSubs
  Interactive subtitles. Instantly translate selected word/sentence. Works on Linux, macOS.
• rikai-mpv
  Integrated Japanese dictionary and parser to translate by hovering over words. Works on Linux.
• lats
  The Low ATtention Span mpv script. Plays brief segments from random positions of one or more files, kinda like flipping through TV channels.
• last.fm scrobbler
  Sends the information about playing tracks to last.fm, see http://www.last.fm/help/faq?category=99 for more info.
• leader key
  Adds leader key to your mpv. With prefixes and which-key functionality. demo
• libass_sub_selector
  Visually select individual subtitles a la PotPlayer.
• lilskippa
  Skip to black, skip to silence, skip to scene change.
• List chapters
  Shows chapters and their time at the bottom left corner. example
• live-filters
  Add, remove or toggle ffmpeg video filters during mpv playback.
• local-language
  Let the text displayed by mpv osd become the language you are most familiar with, that is, language localization, such as 【volume: 100%】 becomes 【音量:100%】.
• loop-until
  Loop the video until a specified amount of time. (e.g. loop a 30s wallpaper video to 30min)
• lrc
  Download synchronized lyrics of the currently playing song.
• lua-mpris
  Adds mpris support to mpv.
• lua-repl
  A Lua REPL in the console with Tab completion and pretty-printing of returned tables. It lets you test mpv's and Lua's API without writing a script.
• main.lua
  Loads other scripts, hooks in yt-dlp, displays title, has subtitle override, loops short files, sets options (with delay), & has detailed commentary. Has many script-messages. For mpv v0.34→v0.38, SMPlayer, Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, YouTube, mp4, mp3, jpg, etc. But no yt-dlp for Android. Example title.
• matroska-crop
  Automatically crop video using the Matroska PixelCrop properties. Includes optional workaround for hardware decoding.
• mdmenu
  A script to use dmenu for selecting audio/subtitle/chapters etc.
• memo
  A recent files/history menu for mpv with optional uosc integration.
• metadata-osd
  Adds OSD showing song name, album name and other metadata.
• mfpbar
  A minimalistic progressbar and osc replacement.
• minesweeper
  Minesweeper game.
• misc
• Show detailed media info on screen
• Cycle audio and subtitle tracks, include only languages you know
• Load or append files/URLs from clipboard
• Jump to a random position in the playlist
• Navigate in playlist to next/previous/first/last file
• Restart mpv restoring the properties path, time-pos, pause and volume
• Execute Lua code from input.conf
• When seeking display position and duration like so: 70:00 / 80:00
• ModernX
  A modern OSC UI replacement for MPV that retains the functionality of the default OSC.
• ModernZ
  A fork of ModernX designed to enhance functionality by adding more features, all while preserving the core standards of mpv's OSC.
• move-file
  A simple lua script to move your files to the watched folder for example.
• awesome-osc
  An awesome osc UI replacement for MPV player.
• mpegts-truncate
  Removes beginning of MPEG TS file up to current position without re-writing the whole file.
• mpv-acestream
  Add AceStream protocol handler to mpv. Let the user open streams by dropping Acestream links into mpv GUI or by passing them as command line argument.
• mpv-bluetooth-av-delay
  Adds desired A-V delay automatically, if default audio sink is a bluetooth device.
• mpv-bookmarker
  Bookmark your favorite time on media files
• mpv-BoxToWide
  A simple mpv script to change 4:3 aspect-ratio of video files/streams to 16:9 automatically.
• mpv-Change-OSD-Media-Title
  Displays filename, percentage watched, current chapter, and number of frames dropped in the OSD media title and updates it whenever one of the values has changed.
• mpv_crop_script
  Take cropped screenshots directly within mpv, without the need for external dependencies.
• mpv_discordRPC
  Discord RPC integration for mpv using lua-discordRPC as base.
• mpv_discordRPC (alternative version)
  Discord Rich Presence integration for mpv Media Player. Added some features and support: Linux, MacOS and Windows.
• mpv-discord
  A cross-platform Discord Rich Presence integration for mpv with no external dependencies. Consists of a Go binary for updating the presence and a Lua script for launching it.
• mpvcord
  Discord integration for mpv, using the Game SDK instead of Discord RPC. Supports: MacOS and Windows. (Linux is not supported by Game SDK)
• mpv_frame_info
  Show frame info, similar to ffdshow's OSD.
• mpv-history
  Simple played media logger. Will generate a mpvhistory.log in the default mpv config folder (%APPDATA%/mpv/ or HOME/.config/mpv/)intheformat‘[HOME/.config/mpv/) in the format [</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.08125em;">H</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.05764em;">OME</span><span class="mord">/.</span><span class="mord mathnormal">co</span><span class="mord mathnormal">n</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mord mathnormal">i</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mord">/</span><span class="mord mathnormal">m</span><span class="mord mathnormal">p</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">v</span><span class="mord">/</span><span class="mclose">)</span><span class="mord mathnormal">in</span><span class="mord mathnormal">t</span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.10764em;">f</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.02778em;">or</span><span class="mord mathnormal">ma</span><span class="mord mathnormal">t</span><span class="mord">‘</span><span class="mopen">[</span></span></span></span>DATE <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi><mi>I</mi><mi>M</mi><mi>E</mi><mo stretchy="false">]</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">TIME] </annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">T</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07847em;">I</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.05764em;">ME</span><span class="mclose">]</span></span></span></span>PATH ($?MEDIA-TITLE). Only tested on Windows.
• mpv-i3-floating-centered
  Show mpv window in the center of the display when it is in floating mode (i3wm)
• mpv-jellyfin
  Plugin that turns mpv into a Jellyfin client.
• mpv_manager
  User script and shader manager for mpv
• mpv-manga-reader
  Script for using mpv as a manga reader.
• mpvMatroska
  mpvMatroska turns mpv into a Matroska player.
• mpv-osc-framework
  A simple toolbox to help you build your own osc.
• mpv-osc-orange
  An osc/ui replacement of dark theme.
• mpv-osc-simple
  An osc/ui replacement of white theme.
• mpv-osc-modern-f
  mpv osc script forked from mpv-osc-modern.
• mpv-pdf
  View PDFs in mpv using ImageMagick. Supports: Linux, MacOS
• mpv_reduce_stream_cache
  Reduces MPV cache for streams by increasing playback speed. Works with Twitch through Streamlink.
• mpv_irc
  Display lines from an IRC channel or any text file.
• mpv_sponsorblock
  Script to skip sponsored segments of YouTube videos.
• mpv-webp-generator
  Creates high quality animated webp using mpv hotkeys. (For windows only)
• mpv-yledl
  Watch videos from YLE Areena in mpv using yle-dl
• mpv-ytdlAutoFormat
  A simple mpv LUA script to auto change ytdl-format for Youtube and Twitch or the domains you desire, to 480p or the quality you desire.
• mpv2anki
  A simple way to add notes to Anki with Audio, screenshots and/or subtitles, with few dependencies.
• mpvacious
  Make subs2srs-style Anki cards with automatically generated audio-clips and snapshots. Media files are saved in ogg/opus and webp formats to save space on AnkiWeb.
• mpv-rename
  Rename files on the go directly from within MPV player window without leaving it.
• mpvSockets
  creates one IPC sockets per mpv instance, instead of one socket for the last started instance. Supports: Linux, MacOS and Windows.
• mpv_segment_length
  Displays the length of a segment from a designated point to any other point in a video.
• mpv_sort_script
  Sort files and directories by name, age, size or randomly, recursively or when coming across a directory.
• mpv_slicing
  Cut uncompressed fragments of the video.
• mpv_slicing_copying
  A fork from mpv_slicing. It will cut fragments of the video in original format instead of RGB
• mpv_thumbnail_script ⚠️ original, outdated release file
  mpv_thumbnail_script fork, updated release file
  Show preview thumbnails when hovering over the seekbar, without the need for external dependencies.
• mpv-scripts
• blackout - Couldn't find the "Boss key", but you don't want someone (or simply anyone) to see what you are watching?
• fuzzydir - This script will read your paths from mpv.conf, find those which end with ** and explode them for good! For example, imagine we have a directory named subs, which contains a and b subdirectories.
• reload - Sometimes you have unstable internet connection, or YouTube server dies, or your computer was sleeping for too long, or whatever. The thing is: you were watching something, you lost the connection, MPV doesn't want to play it further, you don't want to find the video again and then seek it to the moment you were watching.
• mpv-slash-search
  Simple and lightweight script that allows you to search for a file in the playlist and play the first match.
• mpv-taskbar-buttons
  Hackish script to add thumbbar media control buttons for mpv on Windows
• mpv-twitch-chat
  Show Twitch chat messages as subtitles when watching Twitch VOD with mpv.
• mpv-twitch-chat-irc
  Show Twitch chat messages as subtitles when watching Twitch LIVE with mpv.
  Based on mpv Twitch Chat for VODs, but since mpv-twitch-chat uses Twitch API to retrieve comments history, it doesn't support live chat comments. This script uses a python subprocess to keep a background irc connection to a channel and dump last 10 messages to file in SubRip format.
• mpv-youtube-chat
  Overlay YouTube chat replays in mpv using yt-dlp.
• mpv-txt
  Play text files using text-to-speech (TTS). (Works on Linux, MacOS; see Dependencies).
• MPVMediaControl
  Integrate MPV with Windows System Media Transport Controls (the control buttons near the volume indicator thingy). See pic for reference.
• mpv-volnorm
  Client-server setup to provide EBU R.128 volume leveling to MPV, even if files stored on a server and played on multiple machines. (Works on Linux, probably all Unix-like; server in Perl).
• mpvcontextmenu
  Comprehensive context-menu forked from Tcl/Tk context menu. Uses other scripts (see Requirements).
• mpvmenu
  Adds a pop-up menu to mpv, which can be bound to a key or button
• multi-command-if
  Very powerful conditional logic and multiple action engine for your keybindings, without having to write a single line of code!
• multiloop
  Loop over multiple A-B points (and save them for future use)
• multisocket
  Creates a numbered socket for each instance of mpv
• M-x
  A menu that shows all commands you have available, key bindings and commends (if present) and from which you can call any of those commands. demo
• myshows
  Marks currently watched episode on MyShows website.
• nextfile
  Force opens next or previous file in the currently playing files directory.
• noAFK
  send virtual keystroke (default F15) during playback to prevent auto-AFK of some applications (requires Windows powershell).
• notify
  Adds desktop notifications to the mpv media player, which show metadata like artist, album name and track name when the track changes.
• **mpv-notify**Converging point for all forks of rohieb's notify scrip.
• notify-send
  A simpler and more recent notifications script for libnotify-compatible (i.e. Unix-like) notifications daemons only. Supports cover art.
• oled-screensaver
  To prevent burn-ins on OLED TVs, this script fades-in a black screen after 15 seconds when paused in fullscreen.
• ontop-playback
  Disables the ontop property when pausing, and enables it again when unpausing the video, if it was disabled. Change it only when the player is not in fullscreen to prevent screen flickering.
• **ontop-only-while-playing**Ontop is only active during video playback. Ontop is automatically disabled during idle, pause and is able to be dynamically disabled without having to restart unlike the previous script.
• ontop-window
  Disables the ontop property when in fullscreen, and enables it again when in window mode, if it was disabled. Heavily inspired by ontop-playback.
• open-anilist-page
  Opens the Anilist page that corresponds to the currently playing (anime) file.
• open-dir
  A simple script that opens the current path of the file in the file explorer.
• open-imdb-page
  Opens the IMDb page that corresponds to the currently playing media file.
• open-in-explorer
  Opens directory and selects the currently playing file (Windows).
• open-kinopoisk-page
  Opens the kinopoisk page that corresponds to the currently playing media file.
• open-file-dialog
  (Windows) Launches a regular Windows file open dialog for loading videos.
• osc-style
  Change the mpv osc to a more beautiful and practical look, which is the osc theme feature, a variety of styles to choose from,this is a tutorial and a preview.
• osc-show-hide
  Toggles the on-screen controller with a hotkey
  Video demonstration
• osd-bar
  Always show osd progress bar, with the more beautiful color matching in the configuration file, you can make the osd progress bar display the current progress at the bottom of the window beautifully,this is a preview.
• osd-clock
  Periodically shows OSD clock (many configurable options).
• osm
  Shows a customizable on screen menu, which is useful to navigate via remote control.
• pause-indicator
  Displays a momentary icon that flashes in the middle of the screen, similar to YouTube.
• permanent-pause-indicator
  Displays a permanent indicator in the middle of the screen while mpv is paused.Preview
• pause-when-minimize
  Pauses the player video when minimizing, and unpauses it when brought up again.
• peerflix-hook
  Allows streaming of magnet links using peerflix, similar to youtube-dl.
• mpv-peerflix-hook
  Alternate version of the above gist that works with multiple running peerflix instances and only kills the correct peerflix instance when exiting.
• pickshader
  Provides a ^R-esque interface for easily setting/appending to --glsl-shaders (this does not install shaders for you)
• webtorrent-hook
  Allows streaming torrents using webtorrent (same as mpv-peerflix-hook but using webtorrent instead). Webtorrent-cli can play in mpv with webtorrent --mpv, but this script allows using torrent identifiers as the file argument to mpv or pasting them into the current playlist using one of the pasting scripts listed here. It also supports additional functionality like automatic file cleanup and the ability to remember the last file played in the torrent. See the readme for more information. See here for a comparison with the other javascript webtorrent plugin. I recommend this plugin over my others (mpv-peerflix-hook and btfs-stream).
• persist-properties
  Keeps volume and other properties between sessions
• pitchcontrol
  Adjusts audio pitch in half-tone steps.
• playlistmanager
  This script allows you to see and interact with your playlist in an intuitive way.
• **playlist-navigator**OSD display features easy navigation with scrolling and search to select files to play or remove from playlist.
• playlistnoplayback
  If you enable the save play history and progress function, this lua script can solve the problem of automatically jumping to the previous playback progress when playing the next file when playing the playlist, that is, let the playlist always play the next file from the beginning every time. the limitations of this script, please see the comments section in the content.
• playlist-view
  Display and navigate the playlist in a grid view of thumbnails.
• pointer-event
  Mutually exclusive, low latency mouse/touch input event detection.
  Executes configurable commands on single-click, double-click, long-click and dragging.
• progressbar
  A minimalistic OSC replacement. It provides a small, unintrusive progress bar that persists at the bottom of the video window.
• profile-cycle
  Cycle between your custom defined profiles while watching the video.
• quack
  Temporarily lower the volume after a seek to save your ears from unpleasant sudden volume changes.
• quick-scale
  Quickly scale the video player to a target size, with full control over target scale and max scale. Helps you effortlessly resize a video to fit on your desktop, or any other video dimensions you need!
• radio-title
  Automatically fetch current playing title from webradio website when not provided by stream.
• recent
  Recently played menu using a history log file in config directory, display using a hotkey or automatically when idle.
• redshift_toggle
  Toggle redshift when loading a video file and when reaching the end of said file. Now also handles pause.
• rename-sub
  Rename current subtitle file as the playing video
• rewindPlaylist
  keybind to rewind to the end of the previous playlist entry
• toggle-redshift-on-play (kill-restart-version)
  Based on the above one, this one also re-enables redshift when pausing and disables it again when unpausing.
  The alternative version achieves the same by killing and restarting redshift (more consistent).
• touch-gestures
  Gestures for play/pause, speed, volume, seeking and next/previous playlist-item.
• trakt-mpv
  Connects trakt.tv with mpv and automatically scrobbles movies/shows. (Python is also needed for this script to function)
• trakt-mpv fork that lets you add episodes to your Trakt watched history instead of checking in
• recent-menu
  Recently played menu for mpv integrated with uosc.
• reload
  When an online video is stuck during buffering or got slow CDN source, restarting often helps. This script provides automatic reloading of videos that didn't have buffering progress for some time, keeping the current time position. It also adds Ctrl+r keybinding to reload video manually.
• remember-props
  When a property changes, it saves it to restore on next start. Saved values are not file-specific. List of properties to save is configured in script-opts/remember-props.conf file.
• repl
  A REPL for input commands that is displayed on the video window.
• restore-subtitles
  Saves selected subtitle tracks and visibility state to saved-subs.json file in config directory and restores them whenever file is loaded. Differs from watch-later-saved data in that it saves secondary subtitles too (and uses subtitle file paths instead of ids).
• review
  Allows to remove files viewed quickly from within mpv
• russian-layout-bindings
  As mpv does not support shortcuts independent of the keyboard layout (https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/351), this script tries to workaround this issue for some limited cases with russian (йцукен) keyboard layout. Upon startup, it takes currently active bindings from input-bindings property and duplicates them for russian layout. You can adapt the script for your preferred layout, but it won't (of course) work for layouts sharing unicode characters with english.
• save-sub-delay
  This script saves the sub-delay quantity for each file. When next time the file is opened, sub-delay is automatically restored.
• save-playlist
  This script saves your playlist to the working directory of the mpv process.
• seek-to
  Seek to an absolute timestamp specified via keyboard input.
• Serkio Tagger
  Annotate videos with tags while you watch.
• scale-win
  Restore old "window-scale" behavior, so to make "add window-scale +/-" keybinds work again when any of the autofit-* options are defined.
• search-menu
  A searchable menu to quickly find keybinds, commands, properties and audio/subtitle tracks.
• search-page
  Allows users to search for keybinds, commands, options, and properties, and have the results display on the OSD. Good for reminding oneself about forgotten keybinds without leaving the player.
• segment-linking
  Adds support for matroska next/prev segment linking using the mkvinfo commandline tool.
• separator
  Interactively copy or move the videos you wanna keep from a given playlist.
• show-filename
  Show the name of the current playing file.
• show-stream-title
  Show OSD stream/channel title when switching the IPTV channels from m3u playlist.
• simple-loader
  (Linux) Browse dirs and files on OSD, and launch them with mpv.
• simple-mpv-webui
  Web-based remote control.
• skipchapters
  Automatically skip chapters matching a given list of regular expressions (eg. "OP" or "Opening").
• skipsilence
  Increase playback speed during quiet parts of the file. Similar to the "Fast-forward during silence" feature of the NewPipe app.
• skiptofade
  Seeks forward until a black screen appears. Built to skip openings. Uses the lavfi blackdetect filter.
• skiptosilence
  This script skips to the next silence in the file. The intended use for this is to skip until the end of an opening or ending sequence, at which point there's often a short period of silence.
• SmartSkip
  Automatically or manually skip opening, intro, outro, and preview, like never before. Jump to next file, previous file, and save your chapter changes! Much more explained in the link above.
• SimpleBookmark
  Bookmark with a [ctrl]+[b], then list and access your bookmarks with [b]. Assign your favorites to a keybind then access your favorites with that same keybind. Much more explained in the link above.
• SmartCopyPaste
  Powerful copy paste features. Paste URL or local videos directly to mpv. Copy URL or currently playing video in mpv player then paste to access at a later time. Add videos to playlist simply by pasting. Much more explained in the link above.
• SmartCopyPaste_II
  Powerful copy paste and clipboard list features using a log file. Select, filter, and search from your clipboard list. Paste URL or local videos directly to mpv. Copy URL or currently playing video in mpv player then paste to access at a later time. Paste to access previously copied times of same video. Much more explained in the link above.
• smart-volume
  Records the volume per file in order to restore it in future sessions. What is recorded and restored is the volume offset relative to the session average volume. For every song the last six sessions are recorded, the average of that is used.
• SimpleHistory
  Powerful history features that logs videos that you opened into a log file along with the time you have reached on each video. Select, filter, and search from your history list, Optional resume by [ctrl]+[r] for all videos you have played. Much more explained in the link above.
• SimpleUndo
  Simple undo feature. If you accidentally seek/jump to a different time in the video, press undo [ctrl]+[z] to return to your previous time and vice-versa. More details in the link above.
• sosc
  An OSC supplement for OSC replacements. Provides the idle message and script messages from the original OSC.
• UndoRedo
  Undo and Redo feature for mpv. If you seek/jump to a different time in the video, press undo [ctrl]+[z] to linearly undo the seeks/jumps in the video, and press redo [ctrl]+[y] to linearly return to previous undo positions. More details in the link above.
• Sofalizer
  Simulates 7.1 surround sound to your headset. Get the sofa file from here
• sopcast
  Adds support for sop:// urls.
• speed-transition
  Increases playback speed if a subtitle will not be displayed soon. Resumes normal speed just before the subtitle shows up.
• speed-transition-Audio
  Experiment similar to speed-transition. changes playback speed based on volume thresholds.
• speed
  Changing speed based on regex of filename/path.
• speed
  Always show current playback speed on the OSD
• speed - adjusted timings
  Recalculates osd-msg3 timecodes with speed != 1
• splice
  A script that helps you create a video out of cuts made in the current playing video.
• spotify
  Add current playing title to an user defined Spotify playlist.
• srt-resegment
  Resegment srt by synchronize plain text with whisper's word-level timestamps JSON.
• submpv
  submpv is a python script to automate downloading and loading subtitle from subscence.
• sub
  Select subtitle by id via input box (Windows)
• stopCache
  stops the demuxer from downloading more if it is already past --end
• subit
  Yet another script for downloading subtitles using subliminal. Supports better customization of options, such as easy language selection, authentication for providers that need it, and support for URLs.
• subselect Tk
  Download subtitles with a GUI - select the one you want and automatically load them up in mpv. Supports searching for arbitrary names and different subtitle languages. Works on Windows and Linux, possibly macOS.
• sub-cut
  Extract a part of the video as audio or video with subtitles.
• sub-bilingual
  Generate bilingual subtitles.
• sub-bookmarks
  Save current position and subtitles in .txt file.
• sub-export ⚠️ original, outdated
  sub_export fork, updated
  Extract selected subtitles from .mkv file.
• subtitle-lines
  List and search subtitle lines of the selected subtitle track.
• **sub-not-forced-not-sdh**Prevents the selection of FORCED and SDH subtitles when you start playing a video with MPV:
• Forced subtitles are subtitles that are displayed only for sections of the video that contain non-dialogue elements such as signs, captions, or foreign language translations.
• SDH means Subtitles for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing. By modifying this script (see the README), you can also automatically select a subtitle language.
• sub-playback
  Add interactive move, i.e. automatically pause at the end of the fragment with option to continue playback or replay it again with or without subtitles.
• sub-replay
  Replay previous sentence.
• sub-search
  Search for phrase in subtitles and skip to it.
• subtitle-search
  Script to search for a phrase inside an active subtitle. Supports secondary subtitles too. Displays matched lines in OSD list, takes sub-delay into account and allows searching for Unicode text in utf8 subtitle files. Supports embedded and youtube-provided remote subtitles.
• sub-select
  An advanced subtitle track selector that utilises the current audio language, and the language and titles of the subtitle tracks.
• sub-sentences
  Generate subtitles with sentences.
• sub-voracious
  Reading and listening practice.
• sub-pause
  Automatically pause just before the end of each subtitle line. Also allows replaying the currently active line.
• sub-skip
  Automatically skip parts of a video that don't contain any subtitles. Does so by either fast-forwarding or seeking.
• subs2srs
  Automatically add new card in Anki with audio, picture and text.
• sub-transition
  Speed up playback when no subtitles are visible.
• stats
  Display some statistics about the currently played file on-screen.
• streamcache
  Provides for more network-glitch-robust caching of live streams by adjusting replay speed.
• streamsave
  Save live streams and clip videos without encoding.
• switch-both-audio
  Switch between playing one or two audio tracks simultaneously upon file load or with a hotkey.
• tethys
  An OSC UI replacement for MPV with icons from the bomi video player. Also contains thumbnail preview and a picture-in-picture button.
• thumbfast
  High-performance on-the-fly thumbnailer for mpv. Can integrate with any UI/custom osc.lua.
• time
  Shows the current time or the time at which playback will end.
• timer
  Allows the user to set a starting time and an ending time and see the time elapsed between those points with millisecond precision.
• trackselect
  Automatically select your preferred tracks based on title.
• track-list
  Interractive track-list menu.
• tree-profiles
  Automatically apply profiles to certain directories or files.
• trim.lua
  Adds trim mode for mpv — turn mpv into Lossless Audio / Video Editor.
• total_playtime
  Shows total playtime of current playlist.
• trueautosub
  Improved fork of autosub, Automatically downloads subtitles if not present using subliminal. (osx/linux only)
• tts-subs
  Use voice synthesis to read subtitles out-loud (Currently uses say on MacOS. Could be adapted to use espeak. PR for windows support welcome.)
• tv-output
  (Linux) TV output handling - activate on mpv playback and deactivate on mpv shutdown.
• use-cpu
  If the width of the video is greater than 3000 or the height of the video is greater than 2000, it will automatically switch back to using cpu decoding. If you feel inappropriate, you can modify the default values of the video width and height.
• user-data-loader
  Allows the user-data property to be set at launch using config files and changed using profiles and script-opts during runtime.
• unseen-playlistmaker
  Keeps track of watched files locally, and creates playlists of unwatched files.
• uosc
  Feature-rich minimalist proximity-based UI replacement. (Preview)
• uosc_danmaku
  Loads DanDanPlay danmaku in MPV player, based on the uosc UI framework and DanDanPlay API.(Preview video)
• videoclip
  Create video and audio clips with mpv. Supports mp4 and webm formats.
• visualizer
  Various audio visualization.
• vlcaspectratio
  Implements a VLC style aspect ratio hotkey 'a' that stretches the video to different aspect ratios.
• vlccrop
  Implements a VLC style crop hotkey 'c' that cycles through crop settings, useful for cropping letter-boxed or pillar-boxed content.
• vo_battery
  (Linux) Choose the VO based on if the laptop is on battery or not.
• vr-reversal
  View 3D side-by-side video as a 2D video, allows you to look around and zoom within the video, logs the head motions to a file for later rendering out to a 2D video with ffmpeg.
• waveform
  Displays a waveform of the video in real-time using ffmpeg waveforms. (Preview)
  Based on detuur and microraptor's histogram script, that can also be found on this list.
• **writename**Write the currently playing filename/path to a file, optionally skipping/removing from current playlist and muting.
• webm
  Simple WebM maker for mpv, with no external dependencies.
• when-to-loop
  Intelligently decide when mpv should loop, i.e. while shuffling or while playing a short file.
• whisper-subs
  A lua script that generates subtitles at runtime with whisper.cpp on Linux.
• xfce-genmonify
  update a xfce4-panel genmon plugin that is set up with genmonify to display the currently playing media file and elpapsed or remaining time in xfce4-panel.
• xrandr
  Automatically sets the display refresh rate to the one best suitable for the video played
• **mpv-kscreen-doctor**A similar project that also works for KDE Plasma Wayland sessions
• xscreensaver
  Disables XScreensaver while video playback is active, a replacement for heartbeat-cmd.
• Yomichampv
  A simple solution for integration with Yomichan - a browser-based japanese dictionay.
• youtube-download
  Download youtube video or audio with one key press
• youtube-quality ⚠️ original, outdated
  quality-menu fork, updated
  A menu for changing the streamed video and audio quality (ytdl-format) on the fly. preview
• youtube-search
  A script that allows users to search youtube and open results from within mpv. Requires a couple of extra API scripts, along with curl and a personal youtube API key.
• youtube-upnext
  A menu for (auto) playing youtube's "up next"/recommended videos, that show up on the right side on the website.
• youtube-queue
  A script that implements the YouTube 'Add to Queue' functionality for mpv. Allows adding video urls to the queue from the clipboard, and provides a menu for interacting with the queue.
• ytdl-preload
  Precache the next entry in your playlist if it is a network source by downloading it to a temp file ahead of time. Updated to download all streams in parallel so you can watch it while it downloads.
• zones
  Handles commands depending on where the mouse pointer is at, mostly for mouse wheel handling.