mpv-copy-time

Copy the current time of the video to clipboard or to file.

• Get the current time of the video and copy it to the clipboard with the format HH:MM:SS.MS, where MS (milliseconds) is 3 digits.

• Get the current time of the video and copy it to file.txt with the format HH:MM:SS.

By default:

• Copy to clipboard is bound to "Ctrl + c"
• Copy to file is bound to "Ctrl + a"

External commands are used to access the clipboard:

• Powershell is used on Windows
• xclip is used on Linux + X11
• wl-copy or xclip is used on Linux + Wayland
• pbcopy is used on MacOS

Installation

Put the copy_time.lua script in your scripts folder

• usually "%APPDATA%\mpv\scripts" on Windows
• usually "~/.config/mpv/scripts/" on Linux and Mac

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