mpv-separator

Interactively copy of move the videos you wanna keep from a given playlist

Description

This script helps you organize your playlists by giving you the hability to copy or move the current video being played to a default or user defined folder.

Usage

There are two shortcut keys to this script, which follow below.

Ctrl + D (Duplicate file)

In the video screen, press Ctrl + D to duplicate the video and put it inside the separator folder.

Ctrl + M (Move file)

In the video screen, press Ctrl + M to move the video to the separator folder.

Configuration

By default, when a video is copyied or moved, the script will create a folder which is located where the mpv was ran. The folder will be called separator and will be followed by a period and six random ASCII characters which range between [a-zA-Z0-9]. Therefore, the folder's name will follow the pattern given by separator.XXXXXX.

Example

cd /home/user
mpv ./videos/my_videos/cartoons/funny_cartoon.mp4

<< Ctrl + D >>

In the scenario above, the separator folder will be created in /home/user, which is the current working directory, and the file funny_cartoon.mp4 will be duplicated inside of it.

Defining a custom location

In order to define a custom location, the ambient variable MPV_SEPARATOR_OUTPUT must be changed to reflect the place you want the separator folder to be created.

Example

export MPV_SEPARATOR_OUTPUT="/home/user/.videos"

cd /home/user
mpv great_video.mp4

<< Ctrl + D >>

In this case, the separator folder will be created inside the directory /home/user/.videos, as it was defined by the ambient variable.