glitchikun / mpv-sponsorblock

MPV plugin that allow you to skip sponsors while watching YouTube videos

SponsorBlock plugin for MPV

A port of SponsorBlock for MPV (or Celluloid) written in Rust.

• Why write a MPV plugin in Rust ? Why not!

• Can I write my own plugin in Rust ? Yes! Just follow the example here and you will be ready.

Rquirements

Build dependencies

• rust
• pkgconf
• libcurl

Runtime dependencies

• libcurl

Build

Build the plugin:

rustup override set nightly
cargo build --release

Installation

Move the lib generated to your MPV (or Celluloid) scripts folder.

cp ./target/release/libmpv_sponsorblock.so ~/.config/mpv/scripts/sponsorblock.so

You can choose to install the configuration file too:

cp ./sponsorblock.toml ~/.config/mpv/sponsorblock.toml

If you don't, only the sponsors segments will be skipped by default as specified by the API.

Usage

Play a YouTube video and segments you chose in the configuration file will be skipped or muted. If the video is entirely labeled as a category it will be shown at startup :