Help with restore-osc-bindings for previous settings.

[lemonpepperchicken7]

I'm on Windows 10 and Version - mpv-x86_64-20250105-git-996e58a.7z

I've looked up the issue before with wanting to go back to previous settings before updating and everyone who answers the question just posts this link with restore-osc-bindings, https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/etc/restore-osc-bindings.conf

Sadly I am very stupid and need additional help, I keep trying to set up the osc.conf file but I see no results. I'm not sure if I'm doing it incorrectly or just putting it in the wrong spot, the instructions say to place it in
/.config/mpv/script-opts/osc.conf
I'm not entirely sure what .config is? But I know the same instructions place 'fonts' in /.config/mpv and I know where that is, so I made a folder in there called script-opts and put the osc in there, still no luck in MPV player.

I also use a portable_config folder in the directory so I don't know if that has an effect, I would like to ideally keep MPV portable with this config included but at this rate I'd like to just know how to get it working in the first place, thank you for your time I appreciate any help with my slowness.

I pasted the site content exactly like this in the conf file;

restore playlist_osd=yes behavior

playlist_prev_mbtn_left_command=playlist-prev; show-text ${playlist} 3000
playlist_next_mbtn_left_command=playlist-next; show-text ${playlist} 3000

restore chapter_osd=yes behavior

chapter_prev_mbtn_left_command=no-osd add chapter -1; show-text ${chapter-list} 3000
chapter_next_mbtn_left_command=no-osd add chapter 1; show-text ${chapter-list} 3000

restore behavior before select.lua usage

playlist_prev_mbtn_right_command=show-text ${playlist} 3000
playlist_next_mbtn_right_command=show-text ${playlist} 3000

title=${media-title}
title_mbtn_left_command=show-text "${!playlist-count==1:[${playlist-pos-1}/${playlist-count}] }${media-title}"
title_mbtn_right_command=show-text ${filename}

chapter_prev_mbtn_right_command=show-text ${chapter-list} 3000
chapter_next_mbtn_right_command=show-text ${chapter-list} 3000

audio_track_mbtn_right_command=cycle audio down
audio_track_mbtn_mid_command=show-text ${track-list/audio} 3000

sub_track_mbtn_right_command=cycle sub down
sub_track_mbtn_mid_command=show-text ${track-list/sub} 3000

[lemonpepperchicken7]

Sorry I don't know why the 3 lines of text are so large they're normal size in the config file.

[kasper93]

I know where that is, so I made a folder in there called script-opts and put the osc in there, still no luck in MPV player.

Should work in this case. Can you show your folders and where you put this? You can also run mpv.com -v and you should see something like osc: Opened config file script-opts/osc.conf.

[lemonpepperchicken7]

Sure thing, I have mpv.conf and a cache folder inside of portable_config but that seems to work normally, please let me know if you meant a different way of showing the folders, osc.conf is inside of script-opts. I ran 'mpv.com -v' but nothing appeared so I added MPV to the environment variables PATH and after running the command again I didn't see the exact output you mentioned but the last lines were:

[cplayer] Set property: user-data/osc/visibility="auto" -> 1
[cplayer] Set property: user-data/osc/margins={"l":0,"t":0,"b":0,"r":0} -> 1

Thank you for your assistance I appreciate it.

[lemonpepperchicken7]

My apologies! I figured it out, thank you for your assistance bro.

The instructions seem to only detail the linux instructions which is not great for my unwise windows brain, but i found the equivalent of

/.config/mpv/
seems to be
C:/Users/ USERNAME /AppData/Roaming/mpv/

So I made a script-opts folder in there, and put the conf file in there and it worked perfectly, I hope to at least find a way to do this in a portable manner within the folder itself but for now I'm glad I got this working, thanks again!

[lemonpepperchicken7]

My deep apologies, seems to have been a big issue on my end in terms of reading comprehension for the official guide.

The official directory to place script-opts into is '/.config/mpv/' (on linux) which is 'C:/Users/ USERNAME /AppData/Roaming/mpv/' (on windows).

I tried looking here myself but it wasn't working BECAUSE I had a 'portable_config' in my folder with MPV, so instead I placed script-opts into that portable folder (with the included osc file inside of that script-opts folder) and it worked perfectly. Thank you for your time I hope this helps some other idiot out there.