access playing time - feature request

[ghost]

Any platform or version

A simple way to access time and duration...
With Media player classic or pot player we can either:

1. assign a key so player copies current time / duration to clipboard

   press key x ( clipboard is now 01:25 / 11:16 )

2. or use windows messages, (better) eg with autohotkey

   ControlGetText, time, Static2, ahk_class mpv
   (time variable is now 01:25 / 11:16)

It may be possible using lua and socat and json ipc, but these technologies may be too complicated for a lot of potential developers

[Argon-]

On OSX you can create a keybinding like this:

l run "/bin/sh" "-c" "echo ${playback-time} | pbcopy"

This should be possible for other systems as well when you swap the pasteboard program with whatever your system is using.

[wiiaboo]

Here's some lua code to copy some text to clipboard. Right below there's also code that does what you probably want.

You would place this in a script, add a couple of lines to get current time/duration and then a key binding to copy those to clipboard.

This, of course, only works for Windows. For different systems there's different ways to use the clipboard.

Here's some other code to paste from clipboard that does work with all three common platforms. All you'd need to do is find the respective commands/programs to copy to clipboard instead.

[ghost]

thanks very much for your help,
I'll try testing the sample code you gave tomorrow.

[garoto]

For Windows Vista and later that ships with clip.exe, this works:

<KEY> run "cmd.exe" "/d" "/c" "echo ${playback-time} / ${duration}|clip"

Annoyingly with a \n at the end thanks to the shitastic cmd built-in echo. I recommend some GNU echo port as a better alternative.

[medhefgo]

Maybe mpv should provide a set-clipboard command, then anyone can easily rebind their command to use it:
o show-text ${playback-time}; set-clipboard ${playback-time}

Would have the benefit of being cross platform and not requiring to run extra binaries just to clipboard something.

[Argon-]

This command would be cross platform because then mpv would have to maintain platform-specific implementations for it.
Personally, I don't see why a movie player would implement platform-specific clipboard code, especially when it's so easy to write a "run shell" line.

[ghost]

you might be onto something. This works pefectly with ffmpeg...

   Run %COMSPEC% /c ffmpeg.exe -i test.mp4 2>&1 | find "Duration" | Clip, , hide && exit

so are you saying mpv can do something like this too ?
I have tried a few options, but can't get it to work.

[ghost]

thanks wiiaboo, but i could not get the lua code to work
this is my input file..

local function set_clipboard(text)
local res = utils.subprocess({ args = {
'powershell', '-NoProfile', '-Command', string.format([[& {
Trap {
Write-Error -ErrorRecord $_
Exit 1
}
Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationCore
[System.Windows.Clipboard]::SetText('%s')
}]], text)
} })
end

mp.add_key_binding("5", "set_clipboard",
function () set_clipboard("hello world") end)

thanks medhefgo

i tried
p::
run "cmd.exe" "/d" "/c" "echo ${playback-time} / ${duration}|clip"
and
Run %COMSPEC% /c "cmd.exe" "/d" "/c" "echo ${playback-time} / ${duration}|clip"

neither seem to work
but
Run %COMSPEC% /c ffmpeg.exe -i test.mp4 2>&1 | find "Duration" | Clip, , hide && exit
works ok for ffmpeg

[garoto]

You're supposed to add the run line to your input.conf file located at %appdata\mpv\. Create one (input.conf) if it doesn't exist already.

It should read something like this after:

Lua scripts should go into a scripts dir at the same %appdata% location and have a .lua extension.

[ghost]

Thanks garoto, that totally worked now.

I really appreciate all your help guys.

[TunnelThruTime]

I've tried everything that's been written here with absolutely no success! it's a little ridiculous!!
I'm not a developer and am rather a user, but I feel it should be allot easier to write a single line of code for this kind of thing.
That is after all what everyone on the thread is saying.
Instead for the:
l run "/bin/sh" "-c" "echo ${playback-time} | pbcopy"
"subprocess failed: init"
I've also attempted:
echo 'show-text ${playback-time}' | socat - /tmp/mpvsocket

[ghost]

Are you on OSX? The first method works for me with xclip on x11. The second method also works (of course that requires enabling IPC).

[Akemi]

both methods also work for me on macOS.

[bharathyes]

You're supposed to add the run line to your input.conf file located at %appdata\mpv\. Create one (input.conf) if it doesn't exist already.

Copying to clipboard works fine on Windows10, mpv installed via chocolatey.

But I want the timestamp to be appended to a particular text file, so I can use it at a later point instead of having to switch apps and paste.

I tried this: t run "cmd.exe" "/d" "/c" "echo ${playback-time}>>D:\mpv\trim-video.txt"

Is there any obvious errors with this command? It worked for a couple of days. I used it more than a dozen times. But now it doesn't work and I can't figure out what changed.

[garoto]

On Windows, use single forward slashes (D:/mpv/...) or escaped backslashes (D:\\mpv\\...) as path separators in input.conf.