I have not yet succeeded in connecting Stash to an external or internal video player that MFP recognizes. Currently, I have to copy the link from Stash into VLC for each file manually. I attempted to find a list of supported video players but was unsuccessful. I also attempted to use the Direct Video Stream method but could not find the option in Stash. Is this method the same as copying the link to VLC, which I have already tried?
Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
This fuscript directory / symlink idea sounds great! I’m trying to setup Stash now and couldn’t quite figure out how to organize everything while keeping the script site + author info intact. Feels like it’ll be a lot. Any tips?
I’m not sure if you still need tips or if you have figured out a setup for yourself by now.
The way I have it setup is that I have all my funscripts organised in a seperate folder tree on the same drive I have my videos.
You can organise this however you like I have "%Author%(%site%) / %video title/topic name%. I’m usually lazy and skip the video/topic subfolder if there is only one version posted. So it’s only used in case of multiple versions (or multi-axis) or other added files. But if you have a subfolder you could add whatever you want as well, such as a link to the original source if you want to preserve that.
I then create a symbolic link to this file in the folder with the video so that stash can pick “link” the funscript file. On windows I use an admin command prompt with “mklink /H <new link to create> <original file>”
The /H creates a “hard link”, which in simple terms is just a new “file” that shares the physical data with the original file. That means that you can open either file to change the contents of the original file. I needed to do this because I run stash in docker and normal/“soft links” don’t work in there. if you leave out the “/H” option, a normal or “soft” link is made. This is like a special kind of shortcut to the original file. The benefit is that these can be relative and point to things on other drives. I used them originally, but they didn’t play nicely with docker.
I hope this is of any use to you (or anyone else reading this) and let me know if there are more questions. Feel free to send a DM as well if you want some help, for example, with the symlinks.
I’m still trying to figure out the best solution for this myself .
One option would be to also hard link the video to an alternative title and use that for different versions. You could make them seperate scenes entirely or just add them as different files to one scene.
I got this idea from this post:
I also wanted to give the StashInteractiveTools plugin a try, but haven’t gotten around yet to actually testing it.
YES! I saw StashInteractiveTools too! I started messing around with it… but I have to admit I can’t it doing much… I’ve got it showing up as a plug-in but that’s about it.
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