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by foepys 2174 days ago
I'm using mpv with youtube-dl, too. It's also working on Windows and makes watching videos on dual monitor setups easier. Just place the youtube-dl.exe side-by-side with the mpv.exe.

youtube-dl supports a lot more websites than only YouTube, which makes it (in combination with mpv) a very nice tool that you just put all your videos into.
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glomph 2174 days ago
Do you have your browser set up to open youtube links like that? If so could you explain how you set it up?
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karatchov 2174 days ago
Ive been using Openwith on firefox and chrome, and it works flawlessly

It needs a launcher (aka native host client) to start the 3rd party app, in this case mpv with the correct arguments.

The launcher is technically only started (then immediatly terminates) when you trigger the openwith action, so no memory/cpu overhead.

The official openwith solution is a python script (requires python), for windows there is a native and lightweight launcher: owclauncher

With this setup, you can launch any action with a simple right click: play in mpv, play in low resolution in mpv, download video/audio with youtube-dl, play in 2nd screen ...

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ftk_ 2174 days ago
There's also play-with extension which doesn't require native client. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/
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foepys 2174 days ago
I just put mpv into my PATH, open CMD/terminal, and copy and paste the video link. This takes maybe 5 seconds.
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