ff2mpv
A Firefox/Chrome add-on for playing URLs in mpv. (by woodruffw)
SponsorBlock
Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension) (by ajayyy)
| ff2mpv | SponsorBlock | |
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| 23 | 904 | |
| 476 | 8,774 | |
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| 6.3 | 9.3 | |
| 18 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| PowerShell | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
SponsorBlock
Posts with mentions or reviews of SponsorBlock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.
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Show HN: CTRL-F for YouTube Videos
just use sponsorblock today, works fine on all my devices. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
from mobile phone to tv to pc.
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The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
You are one of today's 10,000.
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
And if you have android:
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
- The Self Balancing Monorail [video]
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YouTube strikes again, it seems
The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts.
[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/
- Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29
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Adfree Cities: for happier, healthier cities
For integrated ads on YouTube (sponsor messages), you can use the SponsorBlock extension (https://sponsor.ajay.app/). If you're using Android, you can also get NewPipe with SponsorBlock integration.
- Adblocker
- Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users
- What are your top browser extensions that have become absolute game-changers?
- Are there any UBlock settings to skip "self promotion" inside youtube videos or does i have to use a separate extension?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ff2mpv and SponsorBlock 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
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
mpv-scripts - dynamic-crop.lua script for mpv player/lib.
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
vidcutter - A modern yet simple multi-platform video cutter and joiner.
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
livemarks - Extension that restores RSS Feed Livemarks in Firefox.
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
reddit-comment-highlights - A browser extension with minimal permissions that highlights Reddit.com comments since you've been away