thumbnails in mpv seek bar
Jul 31, 2024
One thing that I missed from the web youtube player compared to watching a video offline with mpv is the thumbnails in the seekbar. It makes seeking a lot easier in general, but basically everything else is better with an offline playback with mpv, especially with the bookmarks plugin, which I should talk about in another post.
Anyways here’s a quick rundown of how I got it working in mpv on macOS.
Install uosc:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomasklaen/uosc/HEAD/installers/unix.sh)"
Install thumbfast
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/po5/thumbfast/master/thumbfast.conf -P ~/.config/mpv/scripts
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/po5/thumbfast/master/thumbfast.lua -P ~/.config/mpv/scripts
And that’s it! Hope that helps, God bless!