mpv-types-lua VS jaro

For anyone already acquainted with emmylua/vscode-lua I'd recommend using my type declarations for mpv—need to push some commits for recent changes but it's completely functional

https://github.com/disco0/mpv-types-lua

LF. Has vi keybindings like ranger but faster and with async image preview. You may also need this or ranger's rifle as file opener

Another alternative to xdgopen is jaro. There is a config that overrides xdgopen system-wide and it can handle alternative programs inside and outside of terminal. It also has alternative openers selector, but i haven't tried it yet as probably it's better to use mimeopen --ask as it lists all possible openers, but jaro can use dmenu (or maybe even rofi) as selector outside terminal

If you use jellyfin jellyfin-mpv-shim lets you play streams in mpv without worrying about transcoding.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim

Other fun tricks

If you use jaro instead of xdg-open you can make video links automatically open in mpv while regular web links open in your browser of choice.

https://github.com/isamert/jaro

If you use elfeed its nice to watch video entries in mpv without a side trip to the browser. Stolen from Prot somewhere or other.

(defun prot/elfeed-mpv-dwim ()

Oh, and I'm dicking around with jaro as well. Mimi allegedly can do similar-ish stuff, but jaro specifically seems to make it pretty easy to open specific website URL's in a special application, so if I click on a youtube or tiktok or whatever video link that ends in a video file extension in Discord it'll just open up in mpv directly with a sponsorblock script. Trying to find a maintained Reddit client that can be passed URL's in a similar fashion, but not as much luck - it'd be cool, though.