ff2mpv
A Firefox/Chrome add-on for playing URLs in mpv. (by woodruffw)
NewPipe
A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android. (by TeamNewPipe)
| ff2mpv | NewPipe | |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 2,059 | |
| 476 | 28,707 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 6.3 | 9.8 | |
| 18 days ago | about 22 hours ago | |
| PowerShell | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ff2mpv
Posts with mentions or reviews of ff2mpv.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
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Help find a deleted YouTube video
It is. And you can use it in your (desktop) browser with an add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff2mpv/
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Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning
FWIW there is a GitHub repo [0] which keeps track of currently-working ways to block Twich ads. If you don't need chat, ff2mpv [1] can be used to send streams directly to MPV by right clicking on them in the browser. This bypasses the entire proprietary Twitch frontend and displays a silent purple screen during ad breaks.
[0] https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff2mpv/
- Make Firefox use VLC libraries for video decoding!
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query regarding streaming YT with MPV
Unfortunately this won't work with the extension playwithmpv unless you modify the python server to launch a different command. I personally use ff2mpv and I modified the python code of the backend to make this change. If you are interested, this is what I changed on ff2mpv:
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LPT: Open VLC and drag a youtube link to it. It'll play in VLC (with all the capabilities of VLC), and it'll skip ads.
There are also browser extensions that add a toolbar button and a link context menu option to automatically open videos from quite a number of popular sites in MPV. I'm using ff2mpv. It only took a minute to set up.
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The config I wanted to share with everybody who is using different commands every time they are trying to download videos.
You can use a browser extension like ff2mpv to send the urls directly from your browser (so no need to type into the terminal). This works not only in youtube but in many sites as yt-dlp has support for multiple pages.
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How can i stop YouTube on Firefox from using all my cpu on Arch
If Firefox still uses too much CPU, then I recommend ff2mpv -- It does require changing your habits a bit, like blocking autoplay and clicking ff2mpv to launch the video in mpv when you're ready to watch, but it is well worth it.
- Firefox 102.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
- What are some of your favorite browser extensions?
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Movie not filling the entire screen?
With Firefox, use the extension ff2mpv to play anything supported by youtube-dl with mpv player.
NewPipe
Posts with mentions or reviews of NewPipe.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-16.
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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
Just use NewPipe. It's just a better Youtube client even if it had ads.
https://newpipe.net/
- Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance
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2.7M Brits still use a 3G only handset, as the 3G switch off looms closer
I have a 3G device still able to watch YT and a very old Kindle Fire that has NewPipe [1] installed for watching YT in bed (whilst my phone is on charge).
I don't see why not either - if the device was capable of H264 when it was released, why not now?
[1] https://newpipe.net/
- Ask HN: Would you pay for a clickbait-less YouTube?
- Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU
- NewPipe v0.26.0 Released
- So much pain, I cannot sleep! Advice?
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Loop option missing on new phone
There is nothing you can do yourself as an app user, see https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/9764. The current situation will be improved by https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/10580.
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Grandfathered YouTube Premium will see January price increase
NewPipe
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How do I bypass the anti-ad block system on YouTube?
NewPipe on Android is also unaffected.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ff2mpv and NewPipe you can also consider the following projects:
play-with-mpv - Chrome extension that allows you to play videos in webpages like youtube with MPV instead
LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.
mpv-scripts - dynamic-crop.lua script for mpv player/lib.
NewPipe-legacy - NewPipe with support for older devices
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
PowerTube - PowerTube - Youtube-dl client for Android
vidcutter - A modern yet simple multi-platform video cutter and joiner.
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
livemarks - Extension that restores RSS Feed Livemarks in Firefox.
Vanced - Vanced Issues/Docs repo
reddit-comment-highlights - A browser extension with minimal permissions that highlights Reddit.com comments since you've been away
SmartTube - SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS