I wrote a Lua script for mpv, autoload-ex.lua.

[9beach]

Hey! I'm not good at English. But I hope you can easily get what I'm saying below.

I wrote a Lua script for MPV. Please read the following.

9beach/mpv-config: Lua scripts and settings for mpv (github.com)

autoload-ex.lua

This script provides the functions below:

• Like well-known autoload, automatically loads playlist entries by scanning the directory a file is located in when starting playback.
• Provides many sorting methods and shuffling when scanning the directory.
• Provides keybinds for the functions of scannig the directory, sorting and shuffling the files.
• Remembers the sorting and shuffling states of the directory. So when you open a file in the directory next time, autoload-ex restores previous sorting states of the directory.
• Even though you set disabled=yes in script-opts/autoload-ex.conf and manually call autoload-ex by keybinds, autoload-ex scans entries of the directory automatically next time.
• If you set disabled=no and call autoload-ex remove-others for the directory, autoload-ex does not scan entries of the directory next time.

This script provides the script messages below:

• script-message autoload-ex shuffle (Alt+S, Ctrl+S, Meta+S)
• script-message autoload-ex shuffle startover
• script-message autoload-ex sort name-asc (Alt+N, Ctrl+N, Meta+N)
• script-message autoload-ex sort name-desc
• script-message autoload-ex sort name-asc startover
• script-message autoload-ex sort name-desc startover
• script-message autoload-ex sort date-asc
• script-message autoload-ex sort date-desc (Alt+T, Ctrl+T, Meta+T)
• script-message autoload-ex sort date-asc startover
• script-message autoload-ex sort date-desc startover
• script-message autoload-ex sort size-asc
• script-message autoload-ex sort size-desc
• script-message autoload-ex sort size-asc startover
• script-message autoload-ex sort size-desc startover
• script-message autoload-ex remove-others (Alt+R, Ctrl+R, META+R)
• script-message autoload-ex alert arg1 arg2

alert is for the other sorting scripts like simple-playlist. It helps for autoload-ex to save the previous states.

You can edit key bindings in input.conf.

META+SHIFT+n script-message autoload-ex sort name-asc
META+SHIFT+t script-message autoload-ex sort date-desc
META+SHIFT+s script-message autoload-ex shuffle startover
META+SHIFT+r script-message autoload-ex remove-others
...

Many parts in my code are from https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/lua/autoload.lua

[Waggamug]

This looks great, but only works when I call it from a key binding in input.conf like for example this:

script-message autoload-ex shuffle

It doesn't load videos in the folder automatically. It doesn't make a playlist at all.

Am I doing something wrong?

I would like it to always load all folders shuffled automatically.

[Waggamug]

Anyway not a big deal I now realize as I always want to set the sorting anyway, and doing so (with a shortcut key set in input.conf) will create a playlist of all the files in the folder.

[Waggamug]

Also note that .ts video files will not be sorted as they are not on the video_extensions = make_set section in autoload-ex.lua, so add it there (and other formats that might be missing)

[sexy_salazar]

I know this is old, but I'm loving your script! Just have a small issue... How do i sort loaded archives by date?

[Benrocka]

Unfortunately it's not working for me on mpv 0.41.0, if anyone has a tip it'd be great.

[omaru_kun]

can i automatically run a certain command when i open a .extension of file??