--save-position-on-interval for watch-later

[brian6932]

Expected behavior of the wanted feature

The problem:

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/mpv.rst#resuming-playback
if mpv is terminated abruptly and doesn't have the time to save, then the position will not be saved

I want a way to preserve playback position for long media files, regardless of the method the program was closed by (e.g. power loss). Maybe this is out of scope for the mpv project itself, and better suited for a plugin that calls write-watch-later-config in an async manner, but I don't think this is that niche.

I envision the feature would work something like this:

• --save-position-on-interval=<timestamp> - interval to write to ~~/watch_later/<file> at.
• --save-position-on-interval-min-length=<timestamp> - minimum file timestamp required to keep a watch-later interval.
• --save-position-on-interval-max-length=<timestamp> - maximum file timestamp required to keep a watch-later interval.
• --save-position-extensions=<extensions> - a comma separated list of file extensions to consider for these features (the reverse is also fine, file extensions which would be blacklisted from this behavior).

Alternative behavior of the wanted feature

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Log File

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Sample Files

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[guidocella]

https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/2f71a97fb85ed42146f6d9f522bc34ef

[brian6932]

Ah I didn't know about that, that does most of what I mentioned.