MPV screenshot ??? -----SOLVED-----

[abarbarian]

Am trying to get mpv screen shots to save to a customized folder. They normally save to the .temp folder and only save one which gets overwritten when you take another  one.

 

So far I have tried adding this to the /home/bloodaxe/.config/mpv/mpv.conf. This is suggested to work both in the Arch Wiki and other sources on the net.

 

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screenshot-directory=Screenshots/mpv-screenshots
screenshot-template="%F - [%P] (%#01n)"
 

also tried

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screenshot-directory=/home/bloodaxe/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots
screenshot-template="%F - [%P] (%#01n)"
 

 

Also tried to make a profile in /home/bloodaxe/.config/mpv/mpv.conf as advised in the Arch Wiki

 

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profile=myprofile       #Top level area, load myprofile
ontop=yes                 #Always on top

 

[myprofile]              #A simple profile, top level area ends here
screenshot-directory=Screenshots/mpv-screenshots
screenshot-template="%F - [%P] (%#01n)"

 

 

and

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profile=myprofile       #Top level area, load myprofile
ontop=yes                 #Always on top

 

[myprofile]              #A simple profile, top level area ends here
screenshot-directory=/home/bloodaxe/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots
screenshot-template="%F - [%P] (%#01n)"

 

Nothing works.

Any thoughts folks ?

Edited March 23, 2024 by abarbarian

[securitybreach]

Let me see what I can find but that is odd as by default it should make one in the working directory and not overwrite each time.

[securitybreach]

I wouldnt think it would matter but all the examples I see have a trailing / after the directory like 

 

/home/bloodaxe/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/

[securitybreach]

May be worth looking at https://www.reddit.com/r/mpv/comments/180n3pp/save_screenshots_to_a_new_directory_based_on/

 

[sunrat]

I messed with this for a few minutes longer than I should have. Definitely needs a trailing slash after the directory name.

[abarbarian]

20 hours ago, securitybreach said:

I wouldnt think it would matter but all the examples I see have a trailing / after the directory like 

 

Well caught."/""\" can make a difference as in rysnc commands. This time it did not work.

 

Yer Reddit link did not load. I had already looked at the post whilst hunting.

 

I have aclean un fiddled with Arch set up and stuff still does not work for me. I'm cursed, cursed I tell you.

[abarbarian]

53 minutes ago, sunrat said:

I messed with this for a few minutes longer than I should have. Definitely needs a trailing slash after the directory name.

 

Ok thanks. I have left the "/" at the end but it still did not make a difference so my problem is something else.

[securitybreach]

Oh well, good luck

[sunrat]

1 hour ago, abarbarian said:

 

Ok thanks. I have left the "/" at the end but it still did not make a difference so my problem is something else.

 

Here I just added

screenshot-directory=/home/roger/mpv-screenshots/

to /home/roger/.config/mpv/mpv.conf and it works. It says it should create that directory if it doesn't exist but I had already created it manually. Maybe that profile stuff you added messed it up. Remove that and just try adding one config at a time.

I also added

screenshot-format=png

and that works fine too.

[abarbarian]

4 hours ago, sunrat said:

Here I just added

 

Yeah I did a similar thing first. Never worked so tried the profile stuff. I  am thinking it is some basic setting I have not made in the new install which is affecting the mpv config stuff. 

 

Thanks for trying though.

[abarbarian]

I tried mpv like this

Put brain in gear before pressing enter-->10:48:06-->Sat Mar 23-->GodEater
-->mpv --profile=myprofile -v --log-file=./log '[Cleo]God_Eater_-_01_(Dual Audio_10bit_BD720p_x265).mkv'

and found this amongst the output

[cplayer] Setting option 'ontop' = 'yes' (flags = 4)
[cplayer] Setting option 'profile' = 'myprofile' (flags = 8)
[cplayer] Applying profile 'myprofile'...
[cplayer] Setting option 'screenshot-directory' = '/home/bloodaxe/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/' (flags = 12)
[cplayer] Setting option 'screenshot-format' = 'jpg' (flags = 12)
[cplayer] Setting option 'screenshot-template' = '%F - [%P] (%#01n)' (flags = 12)

 

so it looks like mpv is trying to do the right thing. The screenshots are still going to /tmp.

My problem would seem to lie in some basic setting in the fresh install. I followed the Arch Install guide as closely as I could and only did the bare minimum so am baffled as to what is wrong. ;-(

Edited March 23, 2024 by abarbarian

[sunrat]

What about if you remove your user mpv.conf and just run

mpv -v --log-file=./log --screenshot-directory=/home/bloodaxe/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/ '[Cleo]God_Eater_-_01_(Dual Audio_10bit_BD720p_x265).mkv'

[abarbarian]

4 hours ago, sunrat said:

What about if you remove your user mpv.conf and just run

mpv -v --log-file=./log --screenshot-directory=/home/bloodaxe/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/ '[Cleo]God_Eater_-_01_(Dual Audio_10bit_BD720p_x265).mkv'

 

Good idea. I did this though,

 

stopped the myprofile in the config file

 

#profile=myprofile       #Top level area, load myprofile
#ontop=yes                 #Always on top

#[myprofile]              #A simple profile, top level area ends here
screenshot-directory=/home/bloodaxe/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/
screenshot-format=jpg
screenshot-template="%F - [%P] (%#01n)"

 

now if I use the " s " key on the keyboard I get the same result as before, one screenshot to /tmp which overwrites. However if I use a capital S, " shift + s " I get multiple images like so

 

cd -- /home/bloodaxe/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/
 Put brain in gear before pressing enter-->16:36:53-->Sat Mar 23-->mpv-screenshots
-->ls
'[Cleo]God_Eater_-_09_(Dual Audio_10bit_BD720p_x265) - [00:00:33.200] (1).jpg'
'[Cleo]God_Eater_-_09_(Dual Audio_10bit_BD720p_x265) - [00:00:34.576] (1).jpg'
'[Cleo]God_Eater_-_09_(Dual Audio_10bit_BD720p_x265) - [00:09:44.876] (1).jpg'

 

Removing the mpv.conf altogether and running mpv from the cli gets me this from the log

 

 

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[cplayer] Applying profile 'default'...  looks like it loads the default profile

 

[cplayer] Screenshot: '/tmp/mpv-screenshot.jpeg'       
[cplayer] Starting subprocess failed: init             
[cplayer] Starting screenshot: '/tmp/mpv-screenshot.jpeg'
[screenshot] using 11 threads for scaling
[screenshot] Using zimg.                    this is if I use just a small "s"  screenshot ends up in /tmp as before

[cplayer] Screenshot: 'mpv-shot0001.jpg'               
[cplayer] Starting screenshot: 'mpv-shot0002.jpg'      
[screenshot] using 11 threads for scaling
[screenshot] Using zimg.                    this is if I use a capital S "shift+s"  can not find the screenshot it disapered into the ether

 

Edited March 23, 2024 by abarbarian

[securitybreach]

I dont get why it keeps writing to/temp, it makes no sense but probably something simple

[abarbarian]

I have some lua scripts installed which all seemed to work ok before. One in particular for screenshots this was installed before I knew that mpv had an inbuilt option.  I took this particular lua script out and also changed the mpv.conf, deleted the myuser profile. So now this only contains,

 

screenshot-directory=~/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/
screenshot-format=jpg
screenshot-template="%F (%#01n)"

 

Now pressing " s " gets me a screenshot with subs in ~/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/, also pressing " S " (capital S) gets me a screenshot without subs in ~/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/.

So the problem is solved.

screenshot-directory=~/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/
screenshot-directory=/home/anyuser/Screenshots/mpv-screenshots/

Both work.

Many thanks for all your efforts I could not have solved this without your help.You might not have given the solution but you helped me to think out of the box a bit.

[abarbarian]

8 minutes ago, securitybreach said:

probably something simple

 

The user probably

 

No idea why it goes to /temp either.

[sunrat]

2 hours ago, abarbarian said:

 

The user probably

 

No idea why it goes to /temp either.

 

That's what was screwy about it. Mine goes to ~ without any config options.

[securitybreach]

15 hours ago, sunrat said:

 

That's what was screwy about it. Mine goes to ~ without any config options.

 

That's always been the case for me as well, also it doesn't overwrite but makes a new one.