Recent menu

Recently played menu for mpv.

Getting started

uosc

tomasklaen/uosc is required.

Menu - add following to input.conf.

#                   script-binding recentmenu/open                      #! Recently played

Controls - add following to uosc.conf - controls.

command:history:script-message-to recentmenu open?Recently played

command_palette

stax76/mpv-scripts/command_palette is required.

z                   script-binding recentmenu/open                      #! Recently played

or

z                   script-message-to command_palette show-command-palette "Recent Files"   # Recent Files

select

It’s a built-in script of mpv that was added in #14087.

Keybind - add following to input.conf.

z                   script-binding recentmenu/open                      #! Recently played

Context Menu

tsl0922/mpv-menu-plugin/dyn_menu.lua is required.

Menu - add following to input.conf.

MBTN_RIGHT          context-menu
_                   ignore                                  #menu: Recently played  #@recent

Warning

Due to the limitations of context-menu (mpv-menu-plugin), the menu may show unexpected results.

• The menu will not be updated in time when the file is deleted
• The menu will be inconsistent when multiple mpv instances work at the same time

General

Play most recent one.

KEY                 script-binding recentmenu/last

Use the specified menu provider

KEY                 script-message-to recentmenu open-recent-menu uosc
KEY                 script-message-to recentmenu open-recent-menu command-palette
KEY                 script-message-to recentmenu open-recent-menu select

Options

enabled = yes                           # whether to record current playing file, can be used with auto-profile
path = "~~/recent.json"                 # where the history is stored
length = 10                             # number of items
width = 88                              # number of characters for the item
ignore_same_series = yes                # similar file names only record the most recent one
reduce_io = no                          # reduce the number of JSON reads and writes. but menu may show unexpected results.