Description

A simple script to assist your language learning journey in any language by automatically capturing multimedia content from mpv to Anki. It extracts the current subtitles (target language and native/secondary language), corresponding audio, and screenshot when triggered, making it easy to create flashcards.

Need help? Want to raise an issue? Looking for documentation? See Contributing & Support

Features

1. Automatically create Anki cards with extracted content
   1. Extract current subtitle text from MPV
   2. Capture audio segment corresponding to subtitle timing
   3. Take screenshots at current playback position
2. Field mapping configurations

Planned Features

Feature	Sub-feature	Notes
Custom audio segment selection	Set custom start and end points for audio clips independent of subtitle timing	1
Quick card creation	Create cards directly without opening the editor window
Documentation	IINA set-up
Audio extraction	URL/Video stream support (platforms supported by yt-dlp)	2
Field mapping	Video filename mapping for [config.ANKI.FIELDS.SOURCE]

Note 1: Currently, the audio extraction strictly follows subtitle timing.

Note 2: Audio extraction currently only works with local video files. For video streams I recommend using free tools like Abs Player that work directly in the web browser.

Requirements

(all open-source)

• mpv (or any software built on mpv like IINA) - cross-platform media player
• ffmpeg - a suite of libraries to handle multimedia files
• Anki - powerful SRS flashcard app
• AnkiConnect - Anki add-on

Note: AnkiConnect add-on must be installed in Anki and Anki must be running while using this script.

Demo

Contributing & Support

Type	Description
Issues & Requests	Bug reports or feature requests
Contributing	Fork the repo and submit a PR
Discussions	Getting help and questions
Support	Support
Quick Start Guide	Quick Start Guide
Technical documentation	Technical documentation
Help Wanted	Need help with OS-specific testing

This script has been primarily tested on macOS. I currently don't have access to a Linux and Windows machine for thorough testing.

Acknowledgements

While not a direct fork, this project acknowledges mpv2anki, an earlier Linux-specific implementation with similar goals that appears to be no longer maintained.