comp - Curses Omni Media Player

comp is a mpv front-end using curses. It has basic media player functions and can to extract playlists from multiple sources such as media sites supported by youtube-dl, local and direct URL to video/audio and its own JSON playlist format.

Installation

comp requires Python 3.5+ with curses module (only available on Unix-like OSes such as GNU/Linux and the BSDs) and libmpv (available as libmpv1 in Debian/Ubuntu, openSUSE; and as mpv in Arch Linux, Gentoo, macOS Homebrew repository). It also depends on python-mpv and youtube-dl but the setup program will automatically install them if they are missing.

As setuptools will install in an egg and cause breakage, using pip (Python 3 version) is a must. After installing it, run pip3 install comp (you might want to add --user flag to use the User Scheme).

For developers, clone the Github repo then simply run the comp executable to test the program. If you insist on installing it, still use pip3: pip3 install .. Note that comp is distibuted in a wheel created via ./setup.py bdist_wheel.

Command line options

usage: comp [-h] [-v] [-e {json,mpv,youtube-dl}] [-c CONFIG] [--vid VID]
            [--vo DRIVER] [-f YTDL_FORMAT]
            playlist

Curses Omni Media Player

positional arguments:
  playlist              path or URL to the playlist

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -e {json,mpv,youtube-dl}, --extractor {json,mpv,youtube-dl}
                        playlist extractor, default is youtube-dl
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        path to the configuration file
  --vid VID             initial video channel. auto selects the default, no
                        disables video
  --vo DRIVER           specify the video output backend to be used. See
                        VIDEO OUTPUT DRIVERS in mpv(1) for details and
                        descriptions of available drivers
  -f YTDL_FORMAT, --format YTDL_FORMAT
                        video format/quality to be passed to youtube-dl

Examples

Open a JSON playlist:

comp -e json test/playlist.json

Open a Youtube playlist with video height lower than 720:

comp -f '[height<720]' https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLnk14Iku8QM7R3ARnrj1TwYSZleF-i7jT

Keyboard control

Bindings inherited from mpv

For convenience purpose, I try to mimic mpv default keybindings, but many are slightly different from mpv exact behaviour (mainly because of the lack of keys which are unsupported by curses). So I will list all of them here for you to compare:

Left and Right

Seek backward/forward 5 seconds. Shifted arrow does a 1 second seek.

Up and Down

Seek backward/forward 1 minute.

[ and ]

Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10%.

{ and }

Halve/double current playback speed.

Backspace

Reset playback speed to normal.

< and >

Go backward/forward in the playlist.

Return

Start playing.

Space / p

Pause (pressing again unpauses).

.

Step forward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press will play one frame and then go into pause mode again.

,

Step backward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press will play one frame in reverse and then go into pause mode again.

q

Stop playing and quit.

/ / 9 and * / 0

Decrease/increase volume.

m

Mute sound.

_

Cycle through the available video tracks.

#

Cycle through the available audio tracks.

f

Toggle fullscreen.

T

Toggle stay-on-top.

w and e

Decrease/increase pan-and-scan range.

o / P

Show progression bar, elapsed time and total duration on the OSD.

O

Toggle OSD states between normal and playback time/duration.

v

Toggle subtitle visibility.

j and J

Cycle through the available subtitles.

x and z

Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.

l

Set/clear A-B loop points.

L

Toggle infinite looping.

Ctrl-+ and Ctrl--

Adjust audio delay (A/V sync) by +/- 0.1 seconds.

u

Switch between applying no style overrides to SSA/ASS subtitles, and overriding them almost completely with the normal subtitle style.

V

Toggle subtitle VSFilter aspect compatibility mode.

r and t

Move subtitles up/down.

s

Take a screenshot.

S

Take a screenshot, without subtitles.

Alt-s

Take a screenshot each frame.

Page Up and Page Down

Seek to the beginning of the previous/next chapter.

d

Activate/deactivate deinterlacer.

A

Cycle aspect ratio override.

1 and 2

Adjust contrast.

3 and 4

Adjust brightness.

5 and 6

Adjust gamma.

7 and 8

Adjust saturation.

Alt-0

Resize video window to half its original size.

Alt-1

Resize video window to its original size.

Alt-2

Resize video window to double its original size.

E

Cycle through editions.

Movements and selections

The following keybindings are Emacs-like since most characters are taken by mpv.

Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n

Move a single line up/down.

Alt-v and Ctrl-v

Move a single page up/down.

Home / Ctrl-< and End / Ctrl->

Move to the beginning/end of the playlist.

Ctrl-Space

Deselect/reselect the current entry and move down a line.

Playlist manipulation

Ctrl-o

Open playlist.

Ctrl-i

Insert playlist.

Ctrl-f and Alt-f

Search forward/backward for a pattern.

Alt-m

Cycle through playing modes.

Delete

Delete the current entry.

W

Save the current playlist under JSON format.

F5

Redraw the screen content.

:

Execute a mpv command.

Configuration files

If not specified by the --config, (user-specific) configuration file is ~/.config/comp/settings.ini. Default configurations are listed below:

[comp]
# Initial playing mode, which can be one of these 8 modes: play-current,
# play-all, play-selected, repeat-current, repeat-all, repeat-selected,
# shuffle-all and shuffle-selected.
play-mode = play-current

[mpv]
# Options to be parsed to mpv. See OPTIONS section on mpv(1) man pages for
# its complete list of available options.
# For example:
#vo = xv
#ontop = yes
#border = no
#force-window = yes
#autofit = 500x280
#geometry = -15-50

[youtube-dl]
# Video format/quality to be passed to youtube-dl. See FORMAT SELECTION in
# youtube-dl(1) man page for more details and descriptions.
format = bestvideo+bestaudio

Bugs

Media durations are not extracted from online playlists as youtube-dl.YoutubeDL option extract_flat is set to 'in_playlist'. This is rather a feature to save up bandwidth than a bug because a track's duration is updated when it's played.