--- title: "Visually Create Video Clips with mpv, FFmpeg and a Lua Extension — Nick Janetakis" url: https://daily.dev/posts/visually-create-video-clips-with-mpv-ffmpeg-and-a-lua-extension-nick-janetakis-w4plmjut0 source_url: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/visually-create-video-clips-with-mpv-ffmpeg-and-a-lua-extension type: article source: "Nick Janetakis" published: 2026-06-23T11:47:37.543Z updated: 2026-06-23T11:48:02.091Z tags: ["backend", "shell", "lua"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Visually Create Video Clips with mpv, FFmpeg and a Lua Extension — Nick Janetakis **[Nick Janetakis](https://daily.dev/sources/nickjanetakis)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of a custom Lua script for mpv that enables visual video clip creation using chapter markers and FFmpeg. The script adds four key bindings to set start/end markers, create clips, and clear markers. FFmpeg handles the actual clip extraction without re-encoding. Quality-of-life features include auto-pausing after setting the end mark, on-screen timestamp display, safe auto-incrementing file names, and preserving the original file's modification timestamp. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [mpv Is the MVP of Video and Image Viewing — Nick Janetakis](https://daily.dev/posts/mpv-is-the-mvp-of-video-and-image-viewing-nick-janetakis-xk0fetpcy) · Nick Janetakis · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I thought VLC was unbeatable until I tried this open-source media player](https://daily.dev/posts/i-thought-vlc-was-unbeatable-until-i-tried-this-open-source-media-player-tmwluvrze) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#shell](https://daily.dev/tags/shell), [#lua](https://daily.dev/tags/lua) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/visually-create-video-clips-with-mpv-ffmpeg-and-a-lua-extension-nick-janetakis-w4plmjut0)