MPV player usability features

[GrampaWildWilly]

I am running SE 4.0.12 beta 133, but I don't think these ideas are unique to any particular version. For what it's worth, I'm running Windows 11 Pro 64-bit version 24H2 build 26100.4652, but I'm not sure that's particularly relevant either.

I am wondering if there is a way to tell MPV to go to a particular time index. The closest shortcut I found was for going to previous or next time code. That's not what I want. I want to be able to go to say 1:34:17 or 2:03 or any time index I might choose at random within the video. I want to do this without the mouse. I want a little dialog box in which I would fill in hour:minute:second (and perhaps even fraction of a second) information, hit Enter, & presto the video would reposition to that time index. I don't want to be mouse dragging or mouse clicking in the time line. That's horribly clumsy & inaccurate. The keyboard is the only practical way to do what I want. There is such a dialog in VLC outside SE. Since I don't use VLC in SE, I don't know if that little dialog is available in SE. But you've recommended MPV so many times, I don't really care how VLC works in SE.

I have my controls undocked & the MPV player is fullscreen on my second monitor, which is my TV. I am finding that hovering the mouse in the MPV video window brings up the video control bar at the bottom . . . sometimes. I haven't quite figured out yet what makes it appear & after it has appeared, why it sometimes fails to appear. This is intermittent, inconsistent behavior, which I suppose falls under the heading of bug.

When I do manage to get the MPV control bar to appear, the time index information on the bottom right is very, very small. To my aged eyes, it's pretty much illegible, may as well be invisible. Is there some way I could control the size of those characters? The MPV version number is over there, too, & it's even smaller. I'd like to be able to see that as well.

[thelabcat]

It's a bit of a clunky way, but you can enter exact time codes as subtitle positions, and then under the Create tab click "Go to sub position and pause".

You should probably post the issue with the sometimes-appearing controls separately.

I do not know how to change the displayed time code's size.

[darnn]

You need to be able to focus the "video position" textbox (or whatever you call it), which there's no keyboard shortcut for. Here's an AHK2 script that does this in both docked and undocked mode. At least, I've tested it a bit here and it doesn't seem to break. YMMV. The key combination is currently alt+ctrl+V, but you can change it to whatever you like. Rename to .ahk, naturally.
se_focus_video_position.ahk.txt

[GrampaWildWilly]

@thelabcat I suppose that would work but I agree with your assessment that it is kind of clunky. I'd be creating subtitles that I would immediately delete. Their only purpose is to reposition the video to the given time index. There has to be a better way.

@darnn I do not recognize the language in your script. I do not understand what the statements mean, despite your internal comments. What's a mainHwnd? WinActivate looks like a function but where is it? Is it built into Windows? What language is this? I could go on but I hope you see my total lack of understanding of what this is. I do not know how to use it. Do I need to run it through some language processor? What does the file extension ahk indicate? In what directory would I need to put this file? Is there some SE setting that I would have to adjust to tell SE about this thing? I don't see where I might change the default Alt+Ctrl+v to something else. I don't see Alt+Ctrl+v mentioned anywhere in there. In short, I have no idea what you've offered here nor how to use it. I would thank you deeply once I actually used it & it did what I wanted. But it seems there's a few miles from where I am to that desired destination. If I would have to get the source code of SE & modify it somehow, that is well beyond my capabilities. I admire the folks here who modify the SE code but I doubt I will ever join those ranks.

[darnn]

Oh, sorry, I should have specified. AHK is AutoHotKey. You need version 2:
https://autohotkey.com/
Once you install it, if you rename the attached file there to just se_focus_video_position.ahk, you can open it using the program. As for the keys, you can check here:
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/Hotkeys.htm
But it's the first line, the "^" stands for ctrl and the "!" for alt.