Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 23 February 2025 07:53:28 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > >> I do wish mpv had a volume control for audio tho. > It does. From the fine manual: > > / and * > Decrease/increase volume. > > Also, on the GUI, if you scroll with your mouse up or down you alter the > audio > volume. >
The keyboard option does work. I didn't know that. I have a speaker icon that I can click on to mute/unmute but that's it. I'd like to have a control that I can click on and adjust, or better yet, just show up all the time. When I scroll the mouse wheel, it moves forward or backward. I prefer that really. I'm bad to skip forward through bits I don't want to watch. The arrow keys work but the mouse button is faster for me. >> One thing I really like about Smplayer, the >> ability to add videos to the playlist and not alter what is currently >> playing. > I think the only way to add a playlist to mpv is by creating a txt file with > a > list of videos, one video per line, save it as <list_name>.m3u and then drag > 'n drop it into the mpv window, or call it with mpv in a terminal: > > mpv <list_name>.m3u > > You can experiment to see if adding a new m3u list will overwrite the old > one, > or stop what is currently playing - I haven't tried this yet. ;-) I have to admit, I keep saying I want to build playlist files for mpv, smplayer or any other player, and then instead of selecting a large list of videos, I just click on the playlist file, right click and open with preferred player would be a good option too if one file would work with any player. I keep saying I want to do that but I just never get around to finding the time info to do it. I've really wanted to do this for two reasons. I have some videos that have parts in a foreign language. For those, I have the subtitle files. If I go to a directory and just do a CTRL + A and try to open with Smplayer, the subtitle file makes it not want to open because it is not a video file. The file types are mixed. That file, because it has the same name as the video, is buried in there, somewhere. Then when I added Franks checksum tool, it adds a file to but I named it so that it will always be at the top. I do a CTRL + A then click that file while holding the CTRL key to deselect it. Still, it's a extra step. Having a playlist file would avoid all of that. Another reason I haven't done this, I have well north of 600 directories that I need to create playlists for. It would take a while but I could create them as I go to them to watch the videos. I just need to find out how this is done. I'm thinking just doing a ls and piping it to a file should work. I may have to edit out any subtitle files but other than that, might work. Then again, there may be some tool that does this already. As it is, I have a entry in my right click menu that adds videos to the Smplayer playlist. I have one entry that doesn't but it will add to the playlist if it is already playing a video since Smplayer is set to single instance. For mpv, I just have to highlight all the videos I want to play and then open as a group. It will then treat them as a playlist. For my use, it works fine. A playlist would improve things in a way tho. One of these days. At least now I can play my videos and have a clean emerge after updating. ;-) I wonder, does Frank have a nifty script for creating playlist files????/ ROFL Dale :-) :-)
