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Option to mute audio while seeking

Open advice2020 opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Expected behavior of the wanted feature

Some users mentioned scripts to achieve similar results but I feel this could be beneficial if this was add directly to MPV, hopefully others agree.

Suggesting to add an Option that while seeking through audio/video to have the audio mute. There is not really any value to hearing random audio noises while seeking.

KEYBOARD I am mainly referring to if you hold down hotkey assigned to seek (LEFT & RIGHT ARROW for example which are setup by default). Holding them down performs basically a fast forward / rewind action.

MOUSE Not as important to me, but this could also apply to hold down LMB and dragging through seek bar in OSC, for consistency.

Hopefully someone would be willing to add this to MPV. Thank you to anyone who reads this

Alternative behavior of the wanted feature

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advice2020 avatar Oct 31 '25 19:10 advice2020

There is already no audio when you hold seek though.

edit: nvm, I guess if decoding performance is slow on your system then you can still hear audio while seeking

atrxia1 avatar Oct 31 '25 21:10 atrxia1