https://github.com/whether1/mpv-abstime-osd

show absolute time of the playing audio or video
https://github.com/whether1/mpv-abstime-osd

absolute absolute-time absolute-time-delta mpv-script mpv-scripts time

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show absolute time of the playing audio or video

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/whether1/mpv-abstime-osd
• Owner: whether1
• Created: 2025-10-08T08:23:04.000Z (7 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-10-08T09:09:35.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-08T11:19:36.054Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: absolute, absolute-time, absolute-time-delta, mpv-script, mpv-scripts, time
• Language: Lua
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• Size: 1.47 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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• awesome-mpv - abstime-osd - Show absolute time of the playing audio or video.(OSD). (Playback)

README

          
# How to use

 I use portable version of mpv(windows), so just put the script to **\Desktop\execute\MPV\portable_config\scripts** works.  

(en) (cn)scripts differ in comment(english not skilled till now so reserve cn), **same in code**. 

**Dev details see docs**.  

# Key Mind : media start time = ModifyDate - Duration 

Because of create date maybe wrong due to copied file, **we use modify date**.  

similar scripts because [abs-screenshot issue#1](https://github.com/Thann/mpv-abs-screenshot/issues/1), **we use modify date**. 

 Test Result/Behavior/Response/Example/Finish 


picture  below is behavior when testing:we can fastly know the exactly time that cat-caught-the-bat  is  around 202509272320(Beijing Time).  

![test-ok](test-ok.jpg)

 Tigger/Cause/Start 


[mpv-issue#16889](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/16889) ~~We~~ I want mpv can show absolute timestamp like beijing 20251007 2:20 according to ~~create time~~ modify date when playing audio or video file , so we can know the exactly actual time of the specified sound wave or action picture happen in the .m4a or .mp4 file.  

Because vivo phone internal camera do not have timestamp like hikvision osd when capturing video, and it's hard work(high battery consumption,**~~china~~ india too poor**) to process the video file to add timestamp,  **we need player to finish the work**.  

 Future to do/Reference/Research 


1.2510100310 maybe we can merge repo with [abs-screenshot](https://github.com/Thann/mpv-abs-screenshot).  

2.2510100310 clipboard is good. [copyTime](https://github.com/Arieleg/mpv-copyTime)  

  

    Windows

    Powershell Built-in since Windows 7

    ✅ ok

  

  

    Linux/X11

    xclip

    ❌not good

  

  

    Linux/Wayland

    xclip or wl-clipboard

    ❌not good

  

  

    MacOS

    pbcopy

    ❌not good