diff --git a/mpv-plugin/thumbfast/Manifest b/mpv-plugin/thumbfast/Manifest
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+DIST thumbfast-2023.12.08.tar.gz 16515 BLAKE2B 94a8d75315b77b3290fb6e90a44d6ff7970e663ecbdadf29acff6c1282e6834afb1dd079967dadee26c81cc6ae181df9ff0e815c662e11a70fe29a1f6b11cdc7 SHA512 af69b8bd90d6acbd8aeeb7821998684239047efb2f1147149d1cfc824e763e459dc88364d5903f0228e2f3e1b372ced0df6c8b6c07bfd12b05937f2a889a851e
diff --git a/mpv-plugin/thumbfast/metadata.xml b/mpv-plugin/thumbfast/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>nrk@disroot.org</email>
+		<name>NRK</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">po5/thumbfast</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/mpv-plugin/thumbfast/thumbfast-2023.12.08.ebuild b/mpv-plugin/thumbfast/thumbfast-2023.12.08.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+USE_MPV="rdepend"
+MPV_REQ_USE="lua"
+inherit mpv-plugin
+
+COMMIT="03e93feee5a85bf7c65db953ada41b4826e9f905"
+DESCRIPTION="High-performance on-the-fly thumbnailer script for mpv."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/po5/thumbfast"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/po5/${PN}/archive/${COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${COMMIT}"
+
+LICENSE="MPL-2"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="app-shells/bash"
+
+MPV_PLUGIN_FILES=(
+	thumbfast.lua
+)
+
+DOCS=(
+	thumbfast.conf
+	README.md
+)
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	mpv-plugin_pkg_postinst
+	einfo "thumbfast requires using a supported ui (such as mpv-plugin/mfpbar)."
+	# TODO(NRK): add a useflag for the vanilla-osc fork??
+	# https://github.com/po5/thumbfast/blob/vanilla-osc/player/lua/osc.lua
+}