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I sometimes browse my short-length videos collection. Then I i.e. find some funny one and I want to copy it somewhere else or send it to a friend. The problem is, that the collection is really big, so I don't want to scroll it just looking on thumbnails.

The best option would be to open this file in a folder, so I would get explorer.exe with collection directory and the current video selected. But I cannot quite find that option in VLC. Do you guys know if there's one like this? Or maybe in a form of lua extension?

You can right click the video and choose information, then copy the path to the file, then press win+r and enter explorer.exe /select,c:pathtofile.wmv

Edit:

I made a primitive lua extension that uses this command. Tested with vlc 3.0.4 on windows 10 x64.

usage:

• Save the script in the extensions folder.


• Play the desired video to
  make it the current playlist item(just selecting in the playlist is
  not enough.)


• Open the extension view->select_in_explorer
  


• Click the
  button "select in explorer" in the dialog window.


• The explorer should
  open with the file selected.

select_in_explorer.lua

-- "select_in_explorer.lua" -- VLC Extension



function descriptor()

    return {

        title = "Select in explorer",

        version = "0.1",

        author = "mb",

        url = "",

        shortdesc = "Select in explorer",

        description = [[opens Windows explorer and select the currently played file]],

        capabilities = {}

    }

end



function activate()

    dlg = vlc.dialog("Select in explorer")

    update_dialog()

end



function deactivate()

end



function close()

        vlc.deactivate()

end



function meta_changed()

    return false

end



function update_dialog()

    path = vlc.playlist.get(vlc.playlist.current()).path

    dlg:add_button("select in explorer",select_in_explorer, 1, 1, 1, 1)

    path_label = dlg:add_label(path, 2, 1, 1, 1)

    dlg:show()

end



function select_in_explorer()

    path = vlc.playlist.get(vlc.playlist.current()).path

    cmd = "explorer.exe /select,"..path

    io.popen(cmd)

end

Just for sake of completeness...

• on macOS you can right click > Reveal in Finder - which will highlight the file directly.


• on Windows, right click > Show containing folder [though in a large folder, that's going to be less useful]