Video clocks, multi-stereo audio-speed randomization (aspeed), animated mask generator (automask), dual animated spectrum (autocomplex) & insta-cropping (autocrop) for SMPlayer & mpv! Newest scripts in mpv-scripts.zip on GitHub. Toggle them by double-clicking on mute (m&m). Pictures, videos & audio can be drag & dropped onto SMPlayer, to light them up. The scripts can be opened & options edited in Notepad. Disable word-wrap for these scripts! main has much more info, & options for which scripts & subtitles load, & ytdl. I use Notepad++ on Windows, & Brackets on MacOS. All free for Windows, Linux, MacOS & Android. But Android has no extra-device randomization & no YouTube.
To use on YouTube select Open→URL in SMPlayer. Rumble, Odyssey & RedTube also compatible. Double-clicking mute makes the mask smoothly vanish or re-appear, along with black-bars (smooth padding), & the audio switches btwn randomized & normal. aspeed.lua options can activate chipmunk mode on left-channel (in sync), as well as tri-color clocks! autocrop handles transparent input, too, along with a track-list with start & end times. mpv has instant zoom, but unfortunately no scroll bar (to pan around with mouse, etc). Keyboard shortcuts only work if mpv has its own window (SMPlayer preference).
See doc folder for pdf manuals.
In Windows extract all .lua scripts from the .zip & copy/paste them into smplayer-portable (or smplayer) folder. Then in SMPlayer Advanced Preferences enter
--script=.
. is the directory containing main.lua. Then hit OK & play. Overall I consider playback smoother than VLC. main is also a README, but in lua, & has more details. For YouTube also extract yt-dlp into the same folder. Don't forget to update yt-dlp!
If not portable, or in Linux & MacOS, create folder mpv-scripts on Desktop. Then extract all scripts into it. Then in SMPlayer enter
--script=~/Desktop/mpv-scripts/
~/ means home folder. In Linux try sudo apt install smplayer or double-click the .AppImage. All scripts also compatible with .snap & .flatpak releases.
On Android, go to mpv→SETTINGS→Advanced→Edit mpv.conf, then enter
script=/sdcard/Android/media/is.xyz.mpv/
Then copy scripts in to that exact folder, in internal main storage. However leave out autocomplex.lua (lags on smartphone). sdcard is internal, unlike SD card. Then use mpv file-picker to open an MP4 to give mpv media read-permission. In Android-11 media-apps can't normally run scripts from outside a media folder. aspeed.lua struggles primarily because Android apps are singletons who can't spawn subprocesses. I use cx-file-explorer as explorer, 920 for text-editing, & chromium for browsing. SNAPDROP.NET for lua transfer to smartphone.
It's also possible to double-click on mpv.exe or mpv.app & then drag & drop files & URLs directly on mpv, with all scripts fully active! This requires editing mpv.conf, like with Android. In Linux edit ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf & then right-click on an MP4 & open-with-mpv. In MacOS go mpv→Preferences... & use only 1 line:
script=~/Desktop/mpv-scripts/
In Windows + SMPlayer: Create New Text Document smplayer-portable\mpv\mpv\mpv.conf with Notepad, containing only the 1 line script=../. Then double-click smplayer-portable\mpv\mpv.exe & drag/drop files/URLs. Simpler than terminal commands!
mpv versions 0.38.0, 0.37.0, 0.36.0, 0.35.1 & 0.34.0 supported. v0.37+ preferred. mpv.exe can be replaced, within smplayer-portable. New MacOS builds are here, & Android is here.
SMPlayer-24.5.0 supported. Releases tested include .7z .exe .app .AppImage .flatpak & .snap.
FFmpeg versions 6.1 (.deb), 6.0 (.exe .flatpak), 5.1.3, 5.1.2 (.app), 4.4.2 (.snap) & 4.3.2 (.AppImage) supported.
Lua versions 5.1 & 5.2 supported.
Give mpv its own window then press ` & then enter any of these commands (but with proper inputs). The bottom of every script has exact examples, like how to replace black pads with white pads.
script-binding toggle_cropscript-binding toggle_aspectscript-binding toggle_complexscript-binding aspeedscript-binding automaskscript-message togglescript-message cleanupscript-message title_removescript-message loadstring <arg>script-message title <data> <title_duration>script-message detect_limit <detect_limit>script-message detect_crop <show_text>script-message apply_crop <meta>script-message apply_pad <pad_options> <pixelformat> <pad_scale_flags> <aspect> <par>script-message apply_aspect <aspect> <toggle_duration> <toggle_t_delay> <toggle_expr>script-message-to automask apply_eq <brightness> <toggle_duration> <toggle_t_delay> <toggle_expr>
To run in Windows from Command Prompt, create a New Text Document in SMPlayer folder & rename it TEST.CMD. Also copy in TEST.MP4. Then right-click on TEST.CMD & click Edit. In Notepad copy/paste:
MPV\MPV --no-config --script=. TEST.MP4
Then Save it & double-click it. The command line shows warnings, etc. mpv pauses when text in CMD is selected. Most ppl prefer an interface like SMPlayer.
In MacOS go to Launchpad→Other→Terminal. Then the exact zsh command is:
/Applications/SMPlayer.app/Contents/MacOS/mpv --script=~/Desktop/mpv-scripts/ "https://youtu.be/5qm8PH4xAss"
That uses the mpv bundled with SMPlayer. In Linux the exact command to load YouTube from terminal is:
mpv --no-config --script=~/Desktop/mpv-scripts/ "https://youtu.be/5qm8PH4xAss"
MacOS users can also drag & drop mpv.app onto Applications. Then the zsh command is:
/Applications/mpv.app/Contents/MacOS/mpv --no-config --script=~/Desktop/mpv-scripts/ "https://youtu.be/5qm8PH4xAss"
Newest scripts above in mpv-scripts.zip haven't been properly released yet. More/better script-messages & functions are needed.
- autocrop: Added
o.auto_aspect. On by default. Randomizes aspect @1Hz. - aspeed: Added
o.suppress_script_opts. - automask:
o.res_safetylowered by 1. - Added nil script-bindings.