mpv VS youtube-dl

Compare mpv vs youtube-dl and see what are their differences.

youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites (by ytdl-org)
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mpv youtube-dl
830 1,082
25,960 128,460
2.7% 0.9%
9.9 8.5
5 days ago 9 days ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later The Unlicense
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mpv

Posts with mentions or reviews of mpv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-12.

youtube-dl

Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-dl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mpv and youtube-dl you can also consider the following projects:

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

spotify-downloader - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

pytube - A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

you-get - :arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

glsl-shaders - This repo is for glsl shaders converted by hand from libretro's common-shaders repo, since some don't play nicely with the cg2glsl script.

udemy-dl - A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.

VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

twitch-dl - CLI tool for downloading videos from Twitch.