mpv: The Best Video Player for Language Learning

[@mattvsjapan]

*Here are some recommend scripts:* -Mpvacious (make cards with image+audio lighting fast): github.com/Ajatt-Tools/mpvacious -Speed-transition (speed up only when there's no dialog): github.com/zenyd/mpv-scripts -Sub-pause (pauses the video at the end of each sub line): github.com/Ben-Kerman/mpv-sub-pause -I updated texthooker.com so that it uses a nicer font! -If there is no mpv folder in appdata->roaming, try running mpv once and then refreshing the directory. -A user made a modified version of mpvacious that works on Mac! Get it here: mvj.link/4KZOig *NOTE*: The text may come through to texthooker.com as garbage characters unless you install mpv through homebrew; if this happens: 1. Install homebrew by following instructions at brew.sh/ 2. Open a terminal and execute "brew install mpv" 3. Then open mpv by using the terminal command "mpv" followed by the path to the file

[@stopmakingmeangry6806]

A bunch of question marks is what I get in texthooker, I use windows 7, and as far as I can see homebrew isn't an option for me. Am I doomed?

[@zanikzz]

@@stopmakingmeangry6806 I have the same issue. May need to upgrade to Windows 10 unless there's a workaround

[@soyoltoi]

I use a mac, and I don't seem to have this problem. Maybe the version of mpvoracious from the releases page is more stable? Also, I think for most mac users, mpv downloaded through brew cask (rather than brew) would be more usable since it installs an application rather than a cli program.

[@AK-gt6om]

@@soyoltoi Did you successfully generate photos and sounds cards on Mac with this mpvoracious? I just can't get it to work, everything being made first for windows...

[@soyoltoi]

@@AK-gt6om I've only been using texthooker and haven't tried out the other features.

[@kanjiNaem]

"so now you wanna find the %appdata% folder" minecraft players: "just like the simulations"

[@gavart4509]

This was pretty fucking funny

[@kanjiNaem]

@@gavart4509 tru

[@tokocold]

This is one of the funniest comments I’ve read thank you

[@TheMisfit]

Brought back memories for sure

[@pigozs]

I'm one of the authors of mpv and have been doing AJATT for quite a bit. I was very surprised to see the mpv icon in my KZbin notifications, lol. The scripts make it super useful for language immersion. Another trick I use to the ones you mentioned (without going into scripts), is I will use english subs and hide them. For shows that don't have jp subs, that way I can still use the english subs timings to repeat sentences (without ever unhiding them).

[@kanjiNaem]

yo that's actually 10000iq

[@stexus3739]

Your LaT project and mpv-nihongo were super helpful! I basically hacked something together using a lot of ideas from those two (and mpvacious), but without those projects I probably would have only half the cards I have now. Amazing work man.

[@pigozs]

@@stexus3739 I'm glad you found them useful! I was probably the first to start, but I think nowadays most other scripts are more polished (but I'm used to mine so I keep using Lat).

[@stexus3739]

@@pigozs Same situation here. I don't think other scripts can do what I want like updating multiple notes at once either. My code probably sucks too, but hey, it works, it's comfy, and I can make cards. Life changing.

[@LeoSkyro]

Thanks for creating such a great video player, I was finally able to abandon VLC thanks to it! Just a question, after installing the script Matt mentioned, I tried pressing A and was give the message "OSD overlay is not supported in this version of mpv" There doesnt seem to be an updater bat in the mpv folder, do I just go to mpv.io/installation/, get the latest release and install it? btw after running updater.bat as admin, within the cmd prompt there's the line 'mpv doesn't exist. Proceed with downloading?' Is that normal or did I do something wrong?

[@WolfusMandrago]

Kudos for saying "ass file" without laughing .

[@Clubboomers]

For anyone having trouble with the mpvacious menu not showing up by pressing 'a' try dropping the master folder, instead of the subs2srs lua file, into the scripts folder. Worked for me.

[@antoinke5658]

Man, this needs to be pinned up, that saved me, thanks a lot!

[@DavidBonelo]

same. btw, I figured this out by reading the *README* file lmao

[@cosmoshorts1835]

bruvvv thankyou so much mateeee

[@Wireless-Darwin]

thanks

[@MikeRegueiro-uf3md]

this worked for me too thanks

[@drauc]

I watched this when it came out and said "nah too complicated" Randomly came back 8 months later and this is absolutely perfect for me right now. Thank you so much to Matt and all the folks that work on scripts and mpv.

[@francescosilvetti9659]

I have been using mpv for some time now, and I didn't even know that it had this kind of features! This will definitely make sentence mining much easier. Thanks Matt!

[@FlowUrbanFlow]

Open source software: Incredibly powerful, not usually very user friendly

[@slumberstudio4757]

at least the instruction are clear

[@CyReVolt]

Similarly with closed software. If Microsoft were to open source Windows, it wouldn't affect its user friendliness, would it? If mpv was closed source now, it wouldn't either. Myth ;-)

[@MrFram]

This is slowly changing though

[@mahdi7d1rostami]

Actually they are user freindly for intellectual users (I'm not a one. Especially setting up some of scripts on windows take mehours before finding this video.) It's really simple: A developer writes this apps and he is not gonna sell it to ordinary people so he would make it in a way that is convinient for himself and other tech enthusiasts. And lots of linux users argue configuration using scripts and command line apps are better.

[@FlowUrbanFlow]

@@mahdi7d1rostami Obviously I'm not talking about all software but usually open source software is less user friendly since it's not always meant for a mainstream market. Typically open source software is for Linux and Linux typically requires a bit of knowledge to use

[@grantrousseau]

Once you see Matt's hand movement as counting out syllables of what he's saying, you can't unsee

[@RonaldMcPaul]

LMAO

[@default632]

Delete this knowledge at once

[@haraldfuruholmen4654]

"Isn't exactly the most user friendly out there" Oh you mean like the entirety of every single program ever recommended by Ajatt or MIA lmaooo

[@tales3374]

My man Matt finally got redpilled and stopped using VLC with hotkeys

[@JohnnyUtah488]

I must be late to the party. What's wrong with VLC?

[@nac9880]

@@JohnnyUtah488 my teacher used that in the windows vista pc in lab

[@youssefelbouzidi1016]

Directly skipping mpc

[@marinellovragovic1207]

@Johnny Utah my biggest problem with vlc was probably the performance issues (and I run on a toaster, so that's kind of a problem). Second big problem was the audio issue that has been a part of this player since the beginning (and according to the developers will never be fixed...) I'm talking about the random pitch shifting/wobble that happens when you skip through a video and continue watching. It happens with every video on every system and I can hear it and I hate it. People started leaving the player around two years ago where mpv and SMplayer (its most stable gui) gained a lot of popularity.

[@JohnnyUtah488]

@@marinellovragovic1207 Thanks for the info. I had some performance issues with version 3.0 (x64) so I downgraded to 2.1 (x86), which I've been happily running ever since. I have a lot of time invested in learning and customizing it, so I'm extremely reluctant to make any changes. I haven't noticed any issues with the audio, but maybe I just have a tin ear.

[@dxnxz53]

Matt really takes it to the next Level when it comes to language learning. Good Job man. Appreciate your content alot!

[@suddenlywat]

I would recommend IINA for Mac users, it's open source and based on mpv but built from the ground up. mpv scripts can also be used with it. It looks really nice.

[@dslink2009]

Thanks so much Matt - I was literally just researching this subject today!

[@waryful3]

"%appdata%" *looks at minecraft on his desktop* "haven't heard that name in years"

[@mcmodmod5533]

These types of videos are my absolute favourite content you make. Super useful stuff.

[@silentkiller2mm]

Also, if you change some config line to: alang: jpn, jp, en slang: jpn, jp, en mpv will prefer Japanese subs and audio to english ones, if your torrent also provides you with eng subs and audio. Normally, it'd prefer english or use the first one in the list of a/s, but this way, as long as the subs files define which language it is in, it will automatically be used.

[@Hambycomb]

FYI, the ':' should be '='

[@default632]

sub=no For those who want to watch raw.

[@rudolfaerofare2683]

@@Hambycomb Thanks, this seemingly solved my problem in that I copied the text the way Matt gave it, and it didn't prioritise Japanese at all. Now it appears to work with the anime episodes I opened since then that still prioritised English.

[@RoseyMarie]

Is there a way to find out the codes for other languages? I am learning Spanish and German not Japanese but am not sure what I should add here.

[@verysmallcats1374]

I already have and use MPV, but I didn't know there was a way to make configs or that scripts even existed for MPV. Evidently I didn't look through the user manual, either. Thanks for making this video! This will make using MPV so much better than it was.

[@andresferrada4839]

This is how I made it work in MAC (Catalina): - Install MPV - Create the file mpv.conf and put it into /Users/yourUsername/.config/mpv - Download Mpvacious - Create a folder with the name "scripts" in the already mentioned folder (/Users/yourUsername/.config/mpv) - …and put the file subs2srs.lua inside - Install xclip and curl (these can be install with homebrew in the terminal command) - When the video + subs are running in mpv, XQuartz will be open (after enable "Clipboard autocopy") - Go to the XQuartz menu > Applications and select "xman" - You are ready to see the subs in texthooker by means of Toggle clipboard extension (don`t forget to allow access to file URLs) (and don't close XQuartz while playing videos in mpv)

[@emilywalker7395]

Did you figure out a way to get the anki card exporter to work with mac? the audio and images is fucked. Also if you just want to copy to clipboard this guys solution works out of the box without having to select xman every time: www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/ec2ect/mpv_player_config_for_subtitle_navigation/ edit: nvm i got the anki exporter working

[@andresferrada4839]

@@emilywalker7395 Unfortunetely I can`t figured out how to complete cards in a fluid way with the Anki card explorer, neither find a cheap or free tool similar to ShareX for mac. In the browser I use Animebook ( animebook.github.io/ ) + Chrome Audio Capture extension; and it's ok, but Animebook doesn't read all formats of video or audio. Your link with the clipboard extension seems a much more clean and easy solution. Thanks.

[@obento4293]

@surferbrah84 Thanks - I've done Command+Shift+Dot in the Users/yourUsername folder and some hidden folders appeared, including .mpv, but not .config. .mpv folder is empty. What am I doing wrong please? I'm on Catalina and I'm using the "nightly build" version.

[@RayZin]

you are ruining my immersion great video

[@awaterplease7885]

This is great! This tool might become a big part of my future work flow. Thx for sharing Matt!

[@Wilpsn]

Glad to see you finally showing the cutting edge technology to the masses. Love Voracious and MPVacious

[@rotviepe]

Really like this kind of videos where you introduce software, thanks!

[@signupisannoying]

I followed all the steps exactly and it's working fine until 17:36. I pressed "a" and nothing happens. How do I troubleshoot this?

[@signupisannoying]

Ok I found the fix: instead of just extracting one lua file from mpvacious zip file, extract the whole folder and put the folder in appdata mpv\scripts. If you still have issue, to debug it run in command line : mpv yourvideofilename. If there's error, it will show up in the command line window.

[@twinkiemurderer246]

@@signupisannoying thanks

[@xinsane7619]

thank you!

[@rekki27]

You're a legend, been trying to figure out how to play this dv .mkv tv show was driving me nuts.

[@Xyz71234]

I already have and use MPV, but I didn't know there was a way to make configs or that scripts even existed for MPV I watched this video Super useful for me Thanks

[@attention8312]

I was really waiting for a part of this video that told me where I get video files like this for the player with subtitles because although the player looks great and you gave clear instructions on how to make it useful I can't make any use of it when I can't get videos to play with subs.

[@HotWallie]

I was wondering the exact same thing.

[@LeoSkyro]

Fantastic! I was recently looking for a way to instantly OCR soft subs in a video player. Tried tinkering with Textractor, which is usually used with VNs but that didnt work. This will finally take away any excuse and make me start just watching anime raw, since I've been noticing my comprehension getting higher and higher due to other methods of study, but this one will definitely help me get much better This tutorial was so useful I'd pay 298円 for it

[@TimoKanal]

Thank you so much for these detailed but also easy to follow videos that get right to the point!

[@DotxxHackxxSword]

I was watching XiaomaNYC and your collab earlier on KZbin. Then searched a video on MPV since I just installed it and wanted to know how it worked. Then KZbin recommended me this video. I didn't notice who you were until I went to your channel find a part 2 to this video. KZbin recommended algorithm actually works lol

[@Soulskinner]

"The Best Video Player." Fixed. XD (it's really one of the best, if not the best video player) And thank you for this video. Not that long time ago, I was wondering are there any Japanese Language Learning tools for mpv (but was too lazy to check it out). And now I see this video. XD So it's an immediate like.

[@vaidik03]

You earned a sub! Thank you so much for making this video. I also got rid of the windows photo viewer and replaced with the ImageGlass after watching your video. Cheers!

[@Toshiba103]

Dear Mr. Matt vs Japan. The link you mentioned above for mpv changed!! Do you have another link to download? Many thanks indeed for your prompt reply.

[@SantiagoRodriguez-zi3gv]

7:36 Monogatari... very nice anime choice

[@HotWallie]

Where did you originally get the video and transcript file from? I have everything set up but am not sure how to extract content from anywhere.

[@cosmoshorts1835]

bruvv how do you make the mpvacious work, i keep pressing "A" at it doesn't work!!!

[@paulwalther5237]

Nice video. It was pretty clear what was happening with the subs when we saw them appearing on the web browser page as you watched. I'm personally trying immersion without Anki so anything to help me immerse more effectively is of interest.

[@chido5945]

As someone who quit anki and went full raw immersion it’s been great. No more waking up to 300+ reviews each morning lol

[@paulwalther5237]

@@chido5945 I just started. I’m actually going through Anki withdrawal. Crazy right.

[@chido5945]

paul walther cool what language you learning?

[@paulwalther5237]

@@chido5945 I started Chinese a couple months ago after studying Japanese for 9 years. My experience with Japanese is a huge help. Without much grammar study I can already usually pick out where the words start and stop even without spaces. I just started reading my first book using LingQ - The King’s Avatar in Chinese. I know the story already and it surprisingly doesn’t feel like studying or anything. If I didn’t know the story I would be too lost but this way it’s going well.

[@illuminati5417]

@@chido5945 add less cards?

[@Miksu__]

Is there going to be a follow up tutorial with this program where you show us how to make Anki cards? I just saw you delete the old tutorial video from August so I figured you might have come up with a different method

[@mattvsjapan]

Pretty sure I mentioned that there would be a follow up tutorial multiple times in the video.

[@Miksu__]

@@mattvsjapan Yeah probably, I just didn't watch the video fully yet nor did I know if the follow up tutorials would be replacing the Anki card making method where you use Netflix

[@alexven92]

Really comprehensible guide, thank you!!

[@FrenchComprehensibleInput]

Hey Matt! Loved your last Twitter comment on Comprehensible Input! 😃 Totally agree, I don't get why people still spend so many hours on grammar as beginners 😅

[@daniels1874]

when downloading from github, it'll usually be better to download from the "releases" section to ensure you don't get any WIP code; although grabbing from the master branch is usually fine too.

[@your_sweetpea]

depends on the branch layout that the project is using, when I have a big project I use a devel branch that's merged into master and feature branches that are merged into devel, then i create release tags off master, for a medium I just go with devel and master usually, but for small projects like I would argue mpvacious is I'll typically work right off of master

[@jacklim9075]

Leaving some tips here: To skip opening, create a file named input.conf, add this line: z seek 90 and save it to the same directory you save mpv.conf. When you are in mpv, press z to fast forward 90 seconds or the normal length of anime opening.

[@SpodgeDanish]

bruh who skips the opening

[@d42]

@@SpodgeDanish MORE DENSITY!!

[@elibeeblebrox1084]

@@SpodgeDanish people who have watched a fuckton of anime, after seeing enough spoilers in openings to be wary of that risk

[@RemasterMusicEngineer]

it's a awesome player i never seen with such clarity in Video & Audio 🤟🤟

[@louislewis6823]

Where can I download the movies you are watching that have all those subtitles available? I'm really wanting to watch Japanese movies and videos or dramas with actual Japanese subtitles could someone kindly point me to the right direction please. So I can watch them on the mpv player.

[@chevvvv]

did you find an answer?

[@UncreativUsername]

@@chevvvv that's only for animethough

[@ttrqs]

sub-visibility=yes sub-auto=fuzzy slang=eng alang=eng audio-file-auto=fuzzy save-position-on-quit=yes autofit-larger=100%x100% geometry=50%:50%

[@rotviepe]

Started using mpv in Windows because of this video and now I'm using it in Arch

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

On UNIX (GNU+Linux, also FreeBSD), the appdata folder for mpv is usually at $HOME/.config/mpv. I watched a video (I will not tell where from) that had both Latin and English subtitles (I was trying to figure out whether the speaker was using (spurious, as Latin does not have pitch accent) pitch-surfaced stress accent. I came out none the wiser (though I think he does not)) and it was possible with some command line switches to show both the Latin and English subtitles.

[@meringue3288]

when I go to Roaming to save the notepad I don't see the mpv folder you have

[@claritoresdiano1021]

you can save it on mpv folder. don't bothered to find mpv folder in roaming. _*Don't forget set Encoding UTF-8 with BOM before saving text file when using notepad_

[@themasked_senshi4521]

Is this for immersion or sentence mining. Sorry if this is a dumb question ?

[@mattvsjapan]

Both!

[@themasked_senshi4521]

@@mattvsjapan thanks

[@acampos8422]

Thank you for this great video Matt

[@goshinbi44]

When you're at the point where there's not that many sentences you want to save from a show you can use the "sub-bookmarks" script on mpv's user script page. it saves out just the line you are on when you press ctrl+b to a text file.

[@木原篤郎-b4m]

Mpvacious can already create an Anki card with the line you’re on, with audio and screenshot

[@goshinbi44]

@@木原篤郎-b4m oh thanks I'll give that a shot.

[@yojou3695]

I was using pot player the same way, but I had to manually copy things to clipboard with a command. Between mpv doing it automatically and a voracious-like feature, I am switching to mpv happily

[@niftybacon7142]

okay so I feel like this is probably a dumb question but where do get the anime mp4 thingies or however you were playing it? im really confused and i started looking around for websites to download anime but i don't think i found much

[@jellyplasm]

You need to get into torrenting and using the website nyaa.si you can download raw anime from there and also someone put up a huge file of JP subtitles from the website kitsunekko, if you search for kitsunekko you can find it :) Alternatively you could just search for 'japanese subs' but your options might be limited.

[@realjayjobes1849]

Oh, if the mpv folder doesn't show up in your APPDATA just make sure to run mpv first and drag and drop a video in and then close it. Matt might have mentioned this and I just didn't pay attention.

[@lgcookie1933]

Thanks! was having a nightmare with this

[@realjayjobes1849]

@@lgcookie1933 np!! glad I could help.

[@ereksomsamayvong1643]

THANK YOU! Last 3 hours of my time I spent trying to figure this out. I watched this video a a few months ago and tried to switch then from Voracious, but I had the same problem so I just quit. Came back to the video thinking it might be fixed but nope and this solved my problem. Thanks a lot!

[@realjayjobes1849]

@@ereksomsamayvong1643 No problem. Happy immersing!!

[@morondes]

Wow, I've been using text hooking for visual novels, didn't realise it could be applied to video. This opens so many doors!

[@TheNobleFive]

A lot of my Japanese subtitles are not recognized by the clipboard autocopy feature, even when the English subtitles on the exact same video are :(

[@base9714]

I think you can make series out of features for such apps. I was looking for a good player for a language learning. I hope there is a feature to hide and show 2nd subtitle file too quickly look up english

[@verysmallcats1374]

You might be able to set up a hotkey for it in a script.

[@base9714]

@@verysmallcats1374 thx)

[@base9714]

Couldn't find how to put 2nd subs on top of the screen and set a button to show close them(

[@木原篤郎-b4m]

@@base9714 maybe the sub-bilingual script is what you want?

[@gewp5283]

every time i try to drag and drop o vid from yt it crashes. Can anyone help?

[@sondres.8021]

The clipboard function: "press a" does not work anymore. Please help!

[@Hackbridge1963]

Is it hard to find subtitles in the language you are learning? I told my daughter about this, and we pondered this question. Thanks!

[@mattvsjapan]

Very much depends on the language. There are tons for Japanese, and I have been able to find a good amount for Mandarin as well.

[@IFreegeLLsZ]

Man, I made the mistake of finally updating VLC and the new version is fucked up, had some troubles using it, I instantly remembered u posted a video about a video player, guess its time to change. Thanks for the video :)

[@AlienatedBronze]

I've been using mpv for a while, was wondering if you were gonna feature it

[@rookie8960]

I wanted to say that you installed a x64 bit in the programs(x86) folder... that is for 32 bit programs

[@laughingalien]

He's confused by his own bits

[@EmanuelPS27]

It would be amazing if there were a tutorial for the other scripts from AJATT, for example the subsync, because I haven't been able to run it in my windows device, and it's a little difficult to set it up in my opinion

[@steveloudon7491]

If you're still reading comments after all this time i wonder if you could help me. The interface that i get after the initial page is nothing like the one shown here. Is this player still available? Maybe you could show me how to install this as it seems the website has changed. Thanks.

[@yona7969]

Thank you for the suggestion

[@baltimorewhisperer]

Open source software: The upside: The possibilities are endless and anything can happen 🤠 The downside: the possibilities are ENDLESS and ANYTHING could happen 😭

[@daysandwords]

Yeah. I have seriously gone back to physical vocab cards because I just can't be bothered with all this, despite how cool and efficient it is.

[@baltimorewhisperer]

Physical cards are such a pain

[@sidma5661]

@@daysandwords I literally can't see how physical cards mean less thing to be bothered about unless you are computer illiterate. I would have probably quit Japanese if I had to write every monolingual definition on the back of my card. On PC, it's just a copy and paste. Also, what if I spilled coffee on my cards? I would be completely fucked.

[@VictorRodriguez-zp2do]

@@sidma5661 Everyone has their ways. Not everyone has the time/motivation to get setups like this.

[@minkmandex8115]

Can you please share the link to your wallpaper! I really like it

[@ilvingcastillo9757]

Nice video, I would like to know where do you download your anime with Japanese subtitles?

[@tvvoty]

I knew about it for a long time but couldn't set it up, thanks a lot!

[@LatinMagician7850]

The script seems to not install in my case,i put the lua file in the script folder but when i press A nothing happens

[@devansh6956]

soooo my mpv folder in roaming is completely empty, no conf file nothing, what do i do now ?

[@mustafa-damm]

Thanks Sir, informative as ever ! It's interesting to see tools of entertainment used for learning, maybe I am the one who was oblivious, thanks again !

[@mineko17]

idk why does my task manager says i have mpv but i dont have the app or the folder

[@reneng2023]

Wrong focus: Can you tell me what's the application you are using for the list managment shown in this video? I'm currently stuck using Dynalist and was looking for an open source alternative, the one you are using brought me some hope. I've gone so desperate and even ran reverse image search and still not be able to find it by just screencapping a low-res icon....

[@Makiaveliiste]

Hi matt, did you delete the ultimate video teaching us how to make cards with share X? How can we access it? Thank u

[@mluengo_sl]

Thanks for the video, do you have a link for your wallpaper?

[@fabricio_santana]

What an amazing contraption that last trick turned out to be! Haha

[@chincheek1]

How do you uninstall this program? i tried and didn't work and it doesn't show up in uninstall programs :(

[@lsegher]

wait you bought winrar? you must be a saint! Great video!

[@mattwhite7070]

Thanks for the informative vid! Having some issues with mpvacious, for some reason it won't auto-copy to the clipboard. the clipboard extension in chrome is working as intended (text I'm copying from elsewhere is being pulled through) and I'm enabling the auto-copy feature in the context menu but no dice... Anyone else running into this issue?

[@mattvsjapan]

Are you on a mac? if so, check out the pinned comment

[@IPODsify]

Got the same issue, on windows and it just does nothing

[@shoogeveen]

Is this a continuation or variation on Voracious?

[@mattvsjapan]

It's not directly related to voracious in any way. But, there is a script that gives mpv similar functionality as Voracious, which I show in the video.

[@shoogeveen]

@@mattvsjapan that's pretty great. Thanks for all your videos Matt. With Japanese I have come up to a level of comprehension I would have never achieved if I hadn't stumbled upon your channel earlier this year.

[@Wilpsn]

A variation, Voracious hasn't received any update in 2 years.

[@witchinghour-i2g]

I've been looking for a way to copy subs from VLC for years without having to open it in notepad/aegis. Thanks for this video

[@eduardomonteiro6863]

What an amazing video! Thank you.

[@diabollich]

Amazing I had it but did not know how to make it work thank you very much :D

[@IPODsify]

Help, the clipboard doesn't work for me no matter what I do, this is the third video I've tried

[@LeoSkyro]

Still having the "OSD overlay is not supported in this version of mpv" error, love always being the only person on the internet having one bug that has apparently never appeared before and screaming into the void about it

[@tatsumoto-ren]

I'm sure it is easily solved by updating the player to v0.32. See github.com/Ajatt-Tools/mpvacious/issues/1

[@LeoSkyro]

@@tatsumoto-ren after encountering this issue I did update mpv but nothing changed. I'll try doing it one more time later

[@tatsumoto-ren]

​@@LeoSkyro Run mpv --version to check if it's actually v0.32. No need to reinstall.

[@LeoSkyro]

@@tatsumoto-ren I'm not on a US keyboard so mpv doesnt recognize ` which I guess is the key for the console. tried rebinding it with script-binding console/enable but no luck. if VLC wasnt so shit I would have ditched mpv so fast lol

[@tatsumoto-ren]

@@LeoSkyro mpv doesn't print its version there. What you need is the actual terminal (cmd.exe on Windows if you're still on Windows).

[@ajjaws5602]

Hey Matt I was wondering what happened to MIA I’ve been using it and it kinda just stops at stage 2 is there stage 3-5 coming or is it like over if so is there another guide to learning Japanese because I am done stage 2 and don’t know where to go

[@mattvsjapan]

MIA is canceled. I'll be releasing my new brand within the next few weeks, and the main guide will be completed before the end of the year.

[@ajjaws5602]

@@mattvsjapan thanks for clearing things up!!

[@your_sweetpea]

I believe that the "How To Start Outputting" video touches on Matt's thoughts on Stage 3 wrt to MIA, IIRC: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3SohIiLdpWqgpI That alongside the MIA Overview ( massimmersionapproach.com/table-of-contents/stage-0/overview/ ) should help until Matt's new project that's superseding MIA is published. With regards to the pitch accent study I can't really say much because I'm not familiar with resources regarding pitch accent, but I'm sure you can find some of your own.

[@ajjaws5602]

@@your_sweetpea thank you so much I appreciate it!!

[@your_sweetpea]

@@ajjaws5602 Note that the "How To Start Outputting" video spans stage 3 and 4 a little bit, MIA recommends not actually starting outputting itself until Stage 4 depending on whether or not you intend to reach fluency or more, but shadowing and adopting a parent are both done in Stage 3 prior to formulating output of your own as preparation for starting outputting and are heavily touched on in the video.

[@ArchMageDarium]

Hey Matt, I'm so glad you made this video. I think I e-mailed you requesting your input on language immersion media players. So, this won't play multiple subtitles at the same time? For example, both English and Spanish, with the option to hide one and show one of them.

[@木原篤郎-b4m]

There is a script called sub-bilingual listed on their site and on GitHub. I haven’t used it myself, but it should create a bilingual subtitle by pressing shift+b. Then you can change subtitles as usual.

[@silentkiller2mm]

Am the only one who has problems getting the font right with the config in linux? I didn't even now that you could change the standard font in mpv, and I tried it out but it wouldn't work. I mean, CJK fonts have always been kinda odd on Linux (though it was much worse 10 years ago), at least have been so far (especially how they mess with my font in the terminal) but no matter what font I use, it just wouldn't change... The config won't even change the font size with me, and I checked the subs file, whether it has anything predefined but nope.

[@arthurvc6531]

I've been editing the font inside the subtitle file using Aegisub. I run linux. Since you are on Linux, you can use a better subtitle browser (i posted some links here, but in other comment): Actually there's a script for mpv for a better subtitle browser (the browser allows you to click on a subtitle and the video switches to that one, browser subtitles automatically follow the video, also it marks subtitles green: [LINUX ONLY, it won't work on Windows or MacOS] gist.github.com/huglovefan/f2c272fb7c77cf834cf06190737c0006 The subtitle browser opens in the web browser (you can choose which one by modifying the script, only a single line to modify, it could be firefox, chrome, brave...), so you can use Yomichan, for example Here's an image of me using it: i.imgur.com/ur5qLPV.jpg I also would recommend this extension (you can paste a list of unknown words and it will highlight all of them: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/multi-highlight/pfgfgjlejbbpfmcfjhdmikihihddeeji Example: i.imgur.com/pcxOaSy.jpg

[@jbleez4771]

I put the .lua file in a newly made scripts folder in the correct location but doesn't seem to affect mpv in any way, anyone else have this issue?, not sure what to do about it.

[@budgetstylestories8357]

It happened to me aswell. Help!

[@jbleez4771]

@@budgetstylestories8357 I still havent had success with it, ima figure it out when im back home this week, will let you know if I find reason and solution to this

[@budgetstylestories8357]

@@jbleez4771Thanks. I will update you aswell if I find the answer.

[@theoya]

I had the same problem. I think they may have changed how the script works, but I'm not sure. Either way the solution was that the file directory is expected to be C:/Users/Username/AppData/Roaming/mpv/scripts/mpvacious/subs2srs.lua. The documentation on the Ajatt-Tools said to just drag the whole folder there, which is what I did. So the easiest way is to rename the downloaded folder from github to "mpvacious" and drag the whole thing into the scripts folder. I haven't tested, but you might need to manually add the keybinds to mpv's input.conf file. I just did so using the defaults from the GitHub page (to be safe) and it now works. Good luck!

[@jbleez4771]

So I just got it installed. Here is how: Instead of dragging the .lua file into "scripts" folder, drag the entire mpvacious folder into the scripts folder. I also made sure I had the newest mpv installation, and I downloaded the "mpvacious-master" download from the mpvacious GitHub. My file path looks like appdata/roaming/mpv/scripts/mpvacious-master

[@leosantillan6055]

I installed mpv, but when I tried to make the configuration part, I couldn't find anything in the mpv file. Why?

[@amitsingh-lj3ou]

Hey Matt! Thank to you I started doing sentence mining. I am totally new to this thing, been learning Japanese for over 1 and a half years now. Can you please tell where to find the Japanese subs? Mostly are hard subbed in English.

[@minatodarck11]

Hey Matt where did you get those subtitles? there's any special sites that you can recommend me?

[@arthurvc6531]

kitsunekko.net/

[@Atheist-k8h]

How to automatically enable Lua script Speed-transition at start? What to change in script?

[@MuhammadKhalid-jw1gd]

not getting the mpvacious options by pressing a?

[@yo252yo]

Pretty nice media player. Is there any way to make shortcuts work system-wide, i.e. even when MPV doesnt have focus? This may be a dealbreaker, it's pretty cumbersome to have to click on the player every time I alt tab

[@MEICKK]

Funny enough im also watching nisemonogatari, tho im not learning japanese at the moment this still worked for figuring out where the config files should be placed, and how the program works in general, thanks!

[@BAGABILLION]

Can you make a video were it stays on my tv channel? What it is doing i pick a channel to watch and anywhere from a few sec to a few min it changes my channel

[@matthewkolb9950]

How do you get the .ass subtitle file in japanese? Did I miss something? Is there a repository or database for most anime? Sorry if you've explained it elsewhere, i'm new to your channel.

[@derekchesterton5645]

Hi Matt. This video really helped me set up and use mpv. I've really enjoyed my time using it so much so that I've stopped using VLC 🤣. I was wondering if you could instruct me on how to add a shuffle function (for Windows 10) to the software. Would be very grateful for that. Thank you!