Package request: mpvScripts.autosub

[Kommynct]

Project description

Automatic subtitle downloading for MPV

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://github.com/davidde/mpv-autosub
• source URL: https://github.com/davidde/mpv-autosub
• license: MIT
• platforms: unix, linux, darwin

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[jcaesar]

Hm, this looks neat. I think I'll test this a while with

  home.file.".config/mpv/scripts/autosub.lua".source = let
    patched = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
      name = "mpv-autosub-git";
      src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
        owner = "davidde";
        repo = "mpv-autosub";
        rev = "35115355bd339681f97d067538356c29e5b14afa";
        hash = "sha256-BKT/Tzwl5ZA4fbdc/cxz0+CYc1zyY/KOXc58x5GYow0=";
      };
      prePatch = ''
        substituteInPlace autosub.lua --replace-fail \
          "local subliminal = '/home/david/.local/bin/subliminal'" \
          "local subliminal = '${lib.getExe' pkgs.python3.pkgs.subliminal "subliminal"}'"
      '';
      buildPhase = "";
      installPhase = "install -Dt $out/mpv/scripts autosub.lua";
    };
  in "${patched}/mpv/scripts/autosub.lua";

and then think about packaging it.

Shouldn't be too difficult, there's existing architecture for mpv scripts. There's two small oofs, which is

• Subliminal is marked as broken, but builds fine, the test failures are gone. Haven't tested whether it works.
• The script suggests setting some optional credentials directly in the script. Might be nice if upstream could be petitioned to implement an alternative mechanism for that (anything from .netrc to some keyring)

[Kommynct]

Any luck with that?

[jcaesar]

I've tried it on a few files, but it seems subliminal just downloads random garbage. Given that, I don't see the point of packaging this script. I don't have the time to look into the problem with subliminal.

See e.g. this for what I mean:

yt-dlp ytsearch:3uDwjIBR9s4
subliminal download -l en *3uDwjIBR9s4*
mpv *3uDwjIBR9s4*

[Kommynct]

it doesn't work on youtube videos, it's for movies/tv shows.

Extending it to also work on youtube videos would be pointless if you're using yt-dlp you should be able to download the sub then anyway.