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PlayPhrase

Search for specific words or phrases in subtitle files and watch video fragments with mpv.

Inspired by videogrep and playphrase.me.

Video

YouTube: PlayPhrase for Movies

Usage

Run python playphrase.py -i <media_dir> _init_ to generate txt files from srt files that will be used for search (only the first time or when you add new movies in your folder).

After that use python playphrase.py -i <media_dir> <phrase>

Regular expressions can be used in search, for example, \b for word boundary.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Use Enter to move to the next clip or Shift + < and Shift + > to switch between clips, Ctrl + Left and Ctrl + Right to move to the prev/next subtitle, q to close video player.

More info: https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#keyboard-control

Batch Scripts

There's videogrep.bat (Windows) and videogrep.sh (Linux) files to simplify user input. First time before running edit them and update media_dir path. Use quit, exit or q, x to exit from the batch script.

Additional Options:

  • -ph, --phrases GAP_BETWEEN_PHRASES move start time of the clip to the beginning of the current phrase. Value is optional (default=1.75 seconds)
  • -l, --limit maximum duration of the phrase (default=30 seconds)
  • -p, --padding padding in seconds to add to the start and end of each clip (default=0.0 seconds)
  • -e, --ending play only matching lines (or phrases)
  • -r, --randomize randomize clips
  • -o, --output name of the file in which output of 'grep' command will be written
  • -d, --demo only show grep results

Optional Configuration Changes

For example, you can modify mpv.conf

autofit=900
geometry=50%:50%

and input.conf

ENTER playlist-next force

More info: https://mpv.io/manual/

Download

See https://github.com/kelciour/playphrase/releases

Usage with AudioBooks

It's possible to use audiobooks as media input. For that purpose there's audiogrep.bat and audiogrep.sh files to simplify user input. But you need to generate subtitles for every audio file. It can be done almost automatically using aeneas. Also csplit can be used to split text of the book by chapters and Pragmatic Segmenter to split chapter's content by "sentences".

Here's example video how it looks like (YouTube):

YouTube: PlayPhrase for AudioBooks

Requirements

  • python 2.7
  • grep
  • mpv

Note

  • playphrase requires the subtitle track and the video file to have the exact same name, up to the extension.

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