It will work on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android. MPV is free, open source and cross platform. How To Make MPV Work With yt-dlpĪLSO READ HOW TO: Watch YouTube and Keep Your Subscriptions Without Ads and Google’s TrackingĪLSO READ MPV + youtube-dl: Stop Wasting Resources So let’s get started with this short and sweet tutorial….ĪLSO READ Replace youtube-dl With yt-dlp. This nifty little program, or plugin or add-on however you want to call it, supports a shitload of websites. So here’s a quick and easy way to improve not only your visual experience, but also improve your privacy and ( if you’re using a laptop ) some battery life: mpv player + youtube-dl.ĭon’t be fooled by the “youtube” in “youtube-dl”. Ads, annotations, not to mention cookies and history that you leave behind. Save the file, and now you can use MPV with youtube videos just like before.Watching online videos can be annoying most of the time. How to find the path to yt-dlp? Easy, open up a terminal and either use whereis yt-dlp or which yt-dlp. Inside the mpv.conf paste the following line script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path= PATH-TO-YT-DLP. On Linux and Mac navigate to ~/.config/MPV/ and edit your mpv.conf( if there isn’t such a file in there, create it ).
You’re all set and good to go.Īnd if you want to make MPV to use yt-dlp here’s what you need to do: Once installed, you’ll notice that downloading youtube videos ( or files from other supported videos ) will run at full speed again.īut now that you’ve replaced youtube-dl with yt-dlp, you need to make it work with other packages that either require it or require it as an option dependency.Īgain, if you’re running Arch ( or an Arch based distro ), all you have to do is install yt-dlp-drop-in from the AUR. Now you see why I said that, FOR ME, the AUR is a decisive factor when choosing a Linux distro. And if you’re running Arch ( or an Arch based distro ), you can install yt-dlp from the AUR. The only thing I will say about installing yt-dlp is that, you can also install it using pipx. You can read everything you need to know on the project’s GitHub repo.
I won’t waste any time on how to install and all that jazz. Lukily there’s a replacement, a fork of youtube-dl called yt-dlp. But the package wasn’t updated in a few months now, and lately it’s either super super slow or it takes a couple of tries to make it work. I’ve mentioned youtube-dl a bunch of time here on FSM.
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