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by karatchov 2543 days ago
Just my 2 cents:

I've been using a combination of firefox/chrome with youtube-dl/mpv+youtube-dl for a while

This comes very handy for playing high quality youtube videos on low end machines or downloading audio+/-video directly from youtube.

On the pre-webextension era of firefox/chrome , "open with" addon was the perfect fit.

Now, a special native messaging app needs to be installed to launch mpv/youtube-dl

"Open with" addon solved this by a python script (that obviously required installing python, and few other steps)

I decided to create a new tool to make this step easier and faster on windows: owclauncher[1]

Basically a lightweight native messaging host for "open with" addon: it is not running on the background, and only started (and immediatly terminated) by the browser when passing a command to any other program

You can check and compile the source code or the .bat windows installer/uninstaller

[1] https://github.com/mbooga/owclauncher