I tried this morning and it works fine but using ffmpeg instead of mpv to generate the thumbnails. It just take time and cpu to generate 150 thumbnails, 30 sec.
And also as mentioned, we have to indicate osc=no in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
So we have in ~/.config/mpv/ folder:
- lua-settings folder with mpv_thumbnail_script.conf
- scripts folder with the two lua files dowloaded from github
- mpv.conf
my mpv_thumbnail_script.conf:
(I've just set prefer_mpv to no and no to last network thumbnails & remote stream)
# The thumbnail cache directory.
# On Windows this defaults to %TEMP%\mpv_thumbs_cache,
# and on other platforms to /tmp/mpv_thumbs_cache.
# The directory will be created automatically, but must be writeable!
# Use absolute paths, and take note that environment variables like %TEMP% are unsupported (despite the default)!
cache_directory=/tmp/my_mpv_thumbnails
# THIS IS NOT A WINDOWS PATH. COMMENT IT OUT OR ADJUST IT YOURSELF.
# Whether to generate thumbnails automatically on video load, without a keypress
# Defaults to yes
autogenerate=yes
# Only automatically thumbnail videos shorter than this (in seconds)
# You will have to press T (or your own keybind) to enable the thumbnail previews
# Set to 0 to disable the check, ie. thumbnail videos no matter how long they are
# Defaults to 3600 (one hour)
autogenerate_max_duration=3600
# Use mpv to generate thumbnail even if ffmpeg is found in PATH
# ffmpeg is slightly faster than mpv but lacks support for ordered chapters in MKVs,
# which can break the resulting thumbnails. You have been warned.
# Defaults to yes (don't use ffmpeg)
prefer_mpv=no
# Explicitly disable subtitles on the mpv sub-calls
# mpv can and will by default render subtitles into the thumbnails.
# If this is not what you wish, set mpv_no_sub to yes
# Defaults to no
mpv_no_sub=no
# Enable to disable the built-in keybind ("T") to add your own, see after the block
disable_keybinds=no
# The maximum dimensions of the thumbnails, in pixels
# Defaults to 200 and 200
thumbnail_width=200
thumbnail_height=200
# The thumbnail count target
# (This will result in a thumbnail every ~10 seconds for a 25 minute video)
thumbnail_count=150
# The above target count will be adjusted by the minimum and
# maximum time difference between thumbnails.
# The thumbnail_count will be used to calculate a target separation,
# and min/max_delta will be used to constrict it.
# In other words, thumbnails will be:
# - at least min_delta seconds apart (limiting the amount)
# - at most max_delta seconds apart (raising the amount if needed)
# Defaults to 5 and 90, values are seconds
min_delta=5
max_delta=90
# 120 seconds aka 2 minutes will add more thumbnails only when the video is over 5 hours long!
# Below are overrides for remote urls (you generally want less thumbnails, because it's slow!)
# Thumbnailing network paths will be done with mpv (leveraging youtube-dl)
# Allow thumbnailing network paths (naive check for "://")
# Defaults to no
thumbnail_network=no
# Override thumbnail count, min/max delta, as above
remote_thumbnail_count=60
remote_min_delta=15
remote_max_delta=120
# Try to grab the raw stream and disable ytdl for the mpv subcalls
# Much faster than passing the url to ytdl again, but may cause problems with some sites
# Defaults to yes
remote_direct_stream=no
