recent.lua

Recently played menu

Logs played files to a history log file with an interactive 'recently played' menu that reads from the log. Allows for automatic or manual logging if you want a file bookmark menu instead.

Menu controls:

• Default display hotkey is TAB
• Keyboard:
  • UP/DOWN to move selection
  • PGUP / PGDWN to move by 10
  • HOME / END to jump to start/end
  • ENTER to load highlighted entry
  • DEL to delete highlighted entry
  • SHIFT+ENTER to add to playlist
  • CTRL+SHIFT+F to activate search
  • 0-9 for quick selection
  • ESC to exit
  • BACKSPACE to exit or exit search results
  • Holding the display key (long-press) toggles between default and uosc menu
• Mouse (if turned on):
  • WHEEL_UP/WHEEL_DOWN to move selection
  • MBTN_MID to load highlighted entry
  • MBTN_RIGHT to exit or exit search results
  • SHIFT+MBTN_MID to add to playlist
  • Click and drag to scroll playlist

Modify settings through script-opts/recent.conf

• Log path is history.log inside whatever config directory mpv reads
• Disabling auto_save makes it only save with a keybind
  • No save key is bound by default, see script-opts
• See comments in the script for more info

Custom prefix/highlight support

• Define match rules using the custom_colors option in the following format:
  pattern|prefix|prefixColor|highlightColor
• Disable prefix or highlight color with ""
• Patterns match against the file’s full path or URL.
• Example:
  • {audio}|♫|1DB954|""
  • ^https?://youtu.be/| ↪Youtube ▶|FF0000|""
  • http.?://www.twitch.tv/(.*)videos?| ↪VoD ▶|00ADEE|57C7FF
• {audio} expands to all audio extensions from audio-exts property

Search

• CTRL+SHIFT+F
• Supports:
  • Inclusion terms: word
  • Exclusion terms: -word
  • Exact phrases: "word1 word2"
• Example:
  word1 -word2 "word3 word4" -"word5" -"word6 word7" "word8"
  Excludes: word2, word5, word6 word7
  Includes: word1, word3 word4, word8

Play most recent one.

KEY                 script-binding recent/play-last

uosc integration

tomasklaen/uosc is required.

Menu - add following to input.conf.

KEY                 script-binding recent/display-recent          #! Recently played

Controls - add following to uosc.conf#controls.

command:history:script-message-to recent display-recent?Recently played

mpv-menu-plugin integration

mpv-menu-plugin is required.

Menu - add following to input.conf.

KEY                 script-binding recent/display-recent        #! Recently played  #@recent