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chapters for mpv

It's a script that lets you 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.

This version of the script requires mpv 0.38 or newer.

Features

add a new chapter, optionally with a title
edit existing chapter's title
remove current chapter
save chapters as a text file, either in the same directory as the media file or in a global directory
save chapters as an xml or txt file
optionally can hash file paths in an attempt to uniquely identify media files if chapter files are stored in a central directory
option to automatically save/load chapter files
option to use ffmpeg to put the chapters into the media file container as a metadata, so that other media players, like vlc, can make use of them
embed chapters in place in mkv container using mkvpropedit
should work on Unix and Windows (tested on Archlinux and Windows 10)

Installation

place chapters.lua in your ~/.config/mpv/scripts directory
optionally create a config file named chapters.conf in ~/.config/mpv/script-opts, check out example config file

add keybindings to your ~/.config/mpv/input.conf, example:

n       script-binding chapters/add_chapter
ctrl+m  script-binding chapters/remove_chapter
ctrl+.  script-binding chapters/edit_chapter
N       script-binding chapters/write_chapters
ctrl+b  script-binding chapters/write_xml
B       script-binding chapters/write_txt
ctrl+,  script-binding chapters/bake_chapters
K       script-binding chapters/mkvpropedit

Thanks

https://github.com/CogentRedTester/mpv-user-input - very useful script to get user input, hopefully one day mpv's scripting API will have that ootb.
https://github.com/shinchiro/mpv-createchapter - inspiration for writing this script. At first I just wanted to add to it the ability to load the saved chapters file, but then I wrote entirely new script with a lot more features. Also check out https://github.com/dyphire/mpv-scripts - as I was finishing my script and thinking how to name it, I found out that someone already wrote something similar. Duh... at least I got to lear some Lua in the process.
mpv, ffmpeg and other awesome open source projects

License

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