--[[ Automatically skip in files if video frames with pre-supplied fingerprints are detected. This will skip ahead by a pre-configured amount of time if a matching video frame is detected. This requires the vf_fingerprint video filter to be compiled in. Read the documentation of this filter for caveats (which will automatically apply to this script as well), such as no support for zero-copy hardware decoding. You need to manually gather and provide fingerprints for video frames and add them to a configuration file in script-opts/skip-logo.conf (the "script-opts" directory must be in the mpv configuration directory, typically ~/.config/mpv/). Example script-opts/skip-logo.conf: cases = { { -- Skip ahead 10 seconds if a black frame was detected -- Note: this is dangerous non-sense. It's just for demonstration. name = "black frame", -- print if matched skip = 10, -- number of seconds to skip forward score = 0.3, -- required score fingerprint = "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000", }, { -- Skip ahead 20 seconds if a white frame was detected -- Note: this is dangerous non-sense. It's just for demonstration. name = "fun2", skip = 20, fingerprint = "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff", }, } This is actually a lua file. Lua was chosen because it seemed less of a pain to parse. Future versions of this script may change the format. The fingerprint is a video frame, converted to "gray" (8 bit per pixels), full range, each pixel concatenated into an array, converted to a hex string. You can produce these fingerprints by running this manually: mpv --vf=fingerprint:print yourfile.mkv This will log the fingerprint of each video frame to the console, along with its timestamp. You find the fingerprint of a unique-enough looking frame, and add it as entry to skip-logo.conf. You can provide a score for "fuzziness". If no score is provided, a default value of 0.3 is used. The score is inverse: 0 means exactly the same, while a higher score means a higher difference. Currently, the score is computed as euclidean distance between the video frame and the pre-provided fingerprint, thus the highest score is 16. You probably want a score lower than 1 at least. (This algorithm is very primitive, but also simple and fast to compute.) There's always the danger of false positives, which might be quite annoying. It's up to you what you hate more, the logo, or random skips if false positives are detected. Also, it's always active, and might eat too much CPU with files that have a high resolution or framerate. To temporarily disable the script, having a keybind like this in your input.conf will be helpful: ctrl+k vf toggle @skip-logo This will disable/enable the fingerprint filter, which the script automatically adds at start. Another important caveat is that the script currently disables matching during seeking or playback initialization, which means it cannot match the first few frames of a video. This could be fixed, but the author was too lazy to do so. --]] local utils = require "mp.utils" local msg = require "mp.msg" local label = "skip-logo" local meta_property = string.format("vf-metadata/%s", label) local config = {} local cases = {} local cur_bmp -- Convert a hex string to an array. Convert each byte to a [0,1] float by -- interpreting it as normalized uint8_t. -- The data parameter, if not nil, may be used as storage (avoiding garbage). local function hex_to_norm8(hex, data) local size = math.floor(#hex / 2) if #hex ~= size * 2 then return nil end local res if (data ~= nil) and (#data == size) then res = data else res = {} end for i = 1, size do local num = tonumber(hex:sub(i * 2, i * 2 + 1), 16) if num == nil then return nil end res[i] = num / 255.0 end return res end local function compare_bmp(a, b) if #a ~= #b then return nil -- can't compare end local sum = 0 for i = 1, #a do local diff = a[i] - b[i] sum = sum + diff * diff end return math.sqrt(sum) end local function load_config() local conf_file = mp.find_config_file("script-opts/skip-logo.conf") local conf_fn local err = nil if conf_file then if setfenv then conf_fn, err = loadfile(conf_file) if conf_fn then setfenv(conf_fn, config) end else msg.warn("Lua 5.2 was not tested, this might go wrong.") conf_fn, err = loadfile(conf_file, "t", config) end else err = "config file not found" end if conf_fn and (not err) then local ok, err2 = pcall(conf_fn) err = err2 end if err then msg.error("Failed to load config file:", err) end if config.cases then for n, case in ipairs(config.cases) do local err = nil case.bitmap = hex_to_norm8(case.fingerprint) if case.bitmap == nil then err = "invalid or missing fingerprint field" end if case.score == nil then case.score = 0.3 end if type(case.score) ~= "number" then err = "score field is not a number" end if type(case.skip) ~= "number" then err = "skip field is not a number or missing" end if case.name == nil then case.name = ("Entry %d"):format(n) end if err == nil then cases[#cases + 1] = case else msg.error(("Entry %s: %s, ignoring."):format(case.name, err)) end end end end load_config() -- Returns true on match and if something was done. local function check_fingerprint(hex, pts) local bmp = hex_to_norm8(hex, cur_bmp) cur_bmp = bmp -- If parsing the filter's result failed (well, it shouldn't). assert(bmp ~= nil, "filter returned nonsense") for _, case in ipairs(cases) do local score = compare_bmp(case.bitmap, bmp) if (score ~= nil) and (score <= case.score) then msg.warn(("Matching %s: score=%f (required: %f) at %s, skipping %f seconds"): format(case.name, score, case.score, mp.format_time(pts), case.skip)) mp.commandv("seek", pts + case.skip, "absolute+exact") return true end end return false end mp.observe_property(meta_property, "none", function() local result = mp.get_property_native(meta_property) if result == nil then return end -- Disable matching while seeking. This is not always ideal. For example, -- the filter chain may filter frames ahead of where it will resume -- playback (if something prefetches frames). On the other hand, the -- skipping logic shouldn't activate when the user is trying to seek past -- the skip frame anyway. You could be more fancy and here, and store all -- seen frames, then apply the skipping when it's actually displayed (by -- observing the playback time). But for now, the naive and not-always- -- correct way seems to suffice. if mp.get_property_bool("seeking", false) then return end -- Try to get all entries. Out of laziness, assume that there are at most -- 100 entries. (In fact, vf_fingerprint limits it to 10.) for i = 0, 99 do local prefix = string.format("fp%d.", i) local hex = result[prefix .. "hex"] local pts = tonumber(result[prefix .. "pts"]) if (hex == nil) or (pts == nil) then break end if check_fingerprint(hex, pts) then break end end end) local filters = mp.get_property_native("option-info/vf/choices", {}) local found = false for _, f in ipairs(filters) do if f == "fingerprint" then found = true break end end if found then mp.command(("no-osd vf add @%s:fingerprint"):format(label, filter)) else msg.warn("vf_fingerprint not found") end