Play folder with a custom playlist order

[barraIhsan]

The title may be confusing but here's the thing.

For example in a folder I have

01. Season 1/
  - Episode 1
  - ...
  - Episode 12
02. OVAs/
  - Episode 7.5

I usually play the folder by using the terminal, mpv dirName/ or by opening the folder with mpv using the context menu

But here's the thing, it would play on sequential order right, that's the expected behaviour. So it will play Episode 1-12 then when the first folder is finished, it would go to the second one.

But I've heard that mpv can load playlist using playlist file, but can I have the playlist file inside that folder, then when opening mpv on the folder, it will use the playlist file data instead.

For example

TenSura/
  - 01. Season 1/
    - Episode 1
    - ...
    - Episode 12
  - 02. OVAs/
    - Episode 7.5 
  - playlist.txt

Then when I use the context menu or mpv TenSura/ it would use the playlist.txt file.
Or maybe it's not possible?

Or maybe I can just open mpv from the playlist file (by using context menu and a custom .desktop file for loading the playlist file using the --playlist)? Is there any documentation on the format of the playlist file?

Thanks.

[guidocella]

mpv --directory-filter-types=playlist --directory-mode=ignore dir/ after renaming playlist.txt to playlist.m3u.

Requires git master.

[barraIhsan]

ahh, thanks I'll try that out.

ok, so can we add fallback to the directory-filter-types?

If playlist.m3u exist inside the directory, it will not load any of the video,audio, or anything else and it will follow the playlist

If it doesn't exist, fallback to the usual, and normal way, load all file inside the directory and load them as a playlist

Wait what an archive?

[guidocella]

No you need a script for that. I use something like this in zsh: [[ $dir/*.m3u(#qN) ]] && mpv $dir/*.m3u || mpv $dir

[barraIhsan]

ahh okay! Thanks for your help!