mpv-menu

Simple mpv menu to launch commands from.

This script allows you to make your own list of commands that you would like to have quick access to without the need to remember the specific keybind.

Setup

Put the menu.lua file to your mpv/scripts/ directory. To enable the script you need a menu.json file in your mpv/script-opts/ directory.

Example of the structure of the json

[
  {
    "label": "Simply quit mpv",
    "command": ["quit"]
  },
  {
    "label": "Set music profile by running two commands",
    "command": [["apply-profile", "music-disable"], ["show-text", "Music!"]],
  },
  {
    "label": "Increase brightness without closing menu",
    "command": ["add", "brightness", "1"],
    "keep_open": true
  }
]

To run arbitrary lua code you need to create a custom script that listens to script-messages.

mpv/scripts/my_custom_command.lua

function my_custom_command(some_data, some_flag)
  -- do something cool
end

mp.register_script_message("my_custom_command", my_custom_command)

You can then add it to the menu with the following

[
  {
    "title": "My custom command",
    "command": ["script-message", "my_custom_command", "some_data", true]
  }
]