mpv-sorted-screenshots

Simple script to sort screenshots based on file names and nested directories

How it works

Consider the following:

• You have screenshot-dir set to /home/boo/pictures/mpv
• You have screenshot-format set to png
• You are playing a video file at /home/boo/videos/tv/bungo/thumpus.mkv
• You are 5 minutes, 32 seconds, and 231 miliseconds in the file

At different nested directory levels a screenshot would save at:

• 0: /home/boo/pictures/mpv/thumpus.mkv/05:32.231.png
• 1: /home/boo/pictures/mpv/bungo/thumpus.mkv/05:32.231.png
• 2: /home/boo/pictures/mpv/tv/bungo/thumpus.mkv/05:32.231.png
• 3: /home/boo/pictures/mpv/videos/tv/bungo/thumpus.mkv/05:32.231.png

And so on.

Usage

Bind script-message sorted-screenshot to a key. Any argument that works for screenshot-to-file also works here (e.g. script-message sorted-screenshot window would include the OSD in the screenshot)

Example

s script-message sorted-screenshot
S script-message sorted-screenshot video # without subtitles
Ctrl+s script-message sorted-screenshot window # with OSD

You can set the script option nested-directory-level to set the amount of nesting in the final screenshot path, defaults to 1.

Caveats

Currently doesn't work on network files, those will fall back to mpv's regular screenshotting behavior. They will work in the future.