Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

mpv is awesome. Shout-out, in no particular order, to:

- Seeds of Might/JySzE's base `mpv.conf`[1]

- uosc, a feature-rich but still minimalist UI[2]

- thumbfast, a fast thumbnailer to be used with uosc or another custom UI[3]

- Eisa01's SmartSkip, which allows to skip intros & more (audio-based)[4]

[1] Windows: https://gist.github.com/JySzE/db4149cad726b3b6955dca8d47a197..., macOS: https://gist.github.com/JySzE/34ee131da3974811a9469e1e3b7d4d... [2] https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc [3] https://github.com/po5/thumbfast [4] https://github.com/Eisa01/mpv-scripts#smartskip

Not to take away from the work done on the plugin, but that’s a “basic” skip intro implementation.

To reliably be able to find intros/credits, you need to some non-local analysis - basically, you need to look for common chunks of audio across episodes in a season or entire show.

I wrote a CLI tool that can do this, albeit it’s not really “finished” and probably will never be. My initial goal was to use it to develop a Jellyfin plugin, but then I discovered that there was already such a plugin :)

https://github.com/aksiksi/needle