mpv-player / mpv-player/mpv

Include a simple bottom bar OSC

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Description

Expected behavior of the wanted feature

MPV offers a couple of different OSC layouts within its osc.lua file.
I noticed that MPV does not provide any simple basic style OSC by default.

I am suggesting to add a new simple "bottombar" style layout.
This simple layout would just consist of a couple of elements already included in the default OSC so no new graphical elements would need to be created.

It would just display the timecodes & seekbar on top of black background rectangle with its height just slightly taller then the seekbar itself.
It would look similar to the following

00:00:00 |===============SEEKBAR===============| 00:00:00

I was wondering if any of the developers/other users would be interested in adding this to MPV?

Thank You

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Research direction

Start with mpv's osc.lua file and inspect the existing OSC layouts and their reusable timecode and seekbar elements. Use the proposed bottom-bar sketch to define the layout, then verify that the new style displays both timecodes and the seekbar over a slightly taller black background rectangle.

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Assessment

Tech stack
lua
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
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Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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