mpv-youtube-quality VS yt-dlp

Compare mpv-youtube-quality vs yt-dlp and see what are their differences.

mpv-youtube-quality

A userscript for MPV that allows you to change youtube video quality (ytdl-format) on the fly (by jgreco)
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mpv-youtube-quality yt-dlp
8 2,360
363 70,636
- 5.2%
0.0 9.8
9 months ago 4 days ago
Lua Python
- The Unlicense
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mpv-youtube-quality

Posts with mentions or reviews of mpv-youtube-quality. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.
  • Anyone on windows not able to use the mpv-quality-menu script for youtube?
    2 projects | /r/mpv | 18 May 2023
    Every other script has dropped in and works instantly other than this one, no matter what I do the menu never loadsm or gives any indication of loading. The old, outdated youtube quality script loads, but presumably because of changes to youtube it fails fetching the list of formats. The menu does still show up.
  • Script suggestion post!
    21 projects | /r/mpv | 29 Dec 2022
    acompressor.lua: compressor. blur-edges.lua: fills the black bars on the side of a video with a blurred copy of its edges. createchapter.lua: self-explanatory. crop.lua: crop video in a visual manner. encode.lua: make an extract of the video currently playing using ffmpeg. reload.lua: reloads videos if an online video stops caching. seek-to.lua: go to timestamp. simplehistory.lua: stores whatever you open in a history file. skiptosilence.lua: skip past "previously on...". smartcopypaste_ii.lua: copy/paste links sponsorblock.lua: skip sponsors in yt videos. streamsave.lua: save looped section to a separate file. subit.lua: download subtitles to playing video. uosc.lua: feature-rich minimalist proximity-based ui (my fav!). webm.lua: similar to encode.lua but with more features and no external dependencies. webtorrent-mpv-hook: enable mpv to stream torrents using webtorrent. youtube-quality.lua: change quality of currently playing yt video.
  • mpv-youtube-quality
    2 projects | /r/mpv | 15 Nov 2022
    is possible to make "mpv-youtube-quality script"work with other sites
  • youtube-quality not working with yt-dlp
    2 projects | /r/mpv | 21 Feb 2022
    Hello, i got this script (https://github.com/jgreco/mpv-youtube-quality) and it was working with youtube-dl but youtube-dl was buffering a lot so i changed to yt-dlp, yt-dlp doesn't buffer at all but the script to control the quality of the video does not work!
  • Help with Streaming through Celluloid Media Player.
    4 projects | /r/linuxmint | 7 Sep 2021
    Only way I can think of would be to use a MPV plugin like https://github.com/jgreco/mpv-youtube-quality. Only problem is, I don't think I know how to properly install MPV Plugins in Celluloid, because past attempts have done nothing. I tried using the Preferences dialog to add plugins, I check them, they're technically "installed" as far as Celluloid seems to be concerned, but they do nothing.
  • Who of you guys and girls uses MPV player with the lua scripts?
    2 projects | /r/linux | 20 Jul 2021
  • mpv.conf "not needed, only here to overwrite repo installed file which enabled vaapi by default "
    2 projects | /r/mpv | 11 May 2021
    Inside the mpv.conf, it reads: "#not needed, only here to overwrite repo installed file which enabled vaapi by default". What does this mean? It is also a read-only file. Why is it "not needed" and why can't I write anything inside it? I wanted to try some scripts like: https://github.com/jgreco/mpv-youtube-quality or https://github.com/TheAMM/mpv_thumbnail_script which need mpv.conf to be modified. Any help? Thank you.
  • Could someone add cookies to this script? mpv
    1 project | /r/mpv | 11 Mar 2021
    I want to ask if someone can add yt-dl cookies option and also to add format code name to this Script. cuz for premium contents on streaming sites requires a cookie.txt otherwise yt-dl fails to fetching formats so I did want to ask since Im noob if someone else could add this feature to the script.

yt-dlp

Posts with mentions or reviews of yt-dlp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.
  • FFmpeg 7.0 Released
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024
    You can put these options in a config file and they will become the default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#configur...
  • Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2024
    Yep. yt-dlp and youtube-dl

    https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

    https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

    Will also start to feel the impact. My theory is that we will see a bunch of new video hosting sites as youtube itself attempts to lock down its ecosystem. They haven't paid attention in any adversarial way as far as I can tell.

    When they do, it wont be great.

  • XZ: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2024
    The points you make aren't unreasonable.

    It is necessary to establish clear boundaries of what can and can be provided by the maintainers. If not done at an earlier stage of the project, the support burden becomes too much to bear at which point the maintainer transfers ownership, and the project suffers from catastrophic consequences such as the xz backdoor we're talking about here, or other cases where the project mostly stalls and serves as an ego-boosting platform for the new maintainer, as was the case with PhantomJS[6].

    This can also happen in your life, where a "friend" sees that you possess a certain skill, and then gradually tries to push an inordinate amount of their personal work related to this field onto you.

    Personally, I think it's best to use an approach with extremely clear communication as to what the maintainer can and cannot provide. This can be seen, for example, in yt-dlp[1], where the consumer is clearly informed upfront that not providing detailed information as requested will lead them to block said consumer; or sqlite where their position regarding contributed patches[2] and support[3] is similarly made clear.

    Having a shouty BDFL like Torvalds can also help improve code quality[4] and questionable contributions[5], though it is better that the shouty BDFL makes statements that are professional and do not show as much aggression; so for example, "Mauro, shut the fuck up"[7] would become "Mauro, your response is completely unbecoming for a Linux kernel maintainer, and is not in line with the promise of not breaking userspace."

    [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/new?assignees=&label...

    [2] https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

    [3] https://www.sqlite.org/support.html

    [4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/linux_6_8_rc2/

    [5] https://cse.umn.edu/cs/linux-incident

    [6] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/14541

    [7] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

  • Doom Running on a Toothbrush
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Feb 2024
    Or just "yt-dlp "

    yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) still works pretty well at the current state of Twitter.

  • Show HN: I create a free website for download YouTube transcript, subtitle
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
  • Using LangServe to build REST APIs for LangChain Applications
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2024
    To download audio from YouTube videos, you'll utilize the widely used yt-dlp library, which can be installed using the pip command as follows:
  • YouTube-dl has been taken down
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2024
  • Ask HN: YouTube – how to batch scrape comments and details for 300 videos?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024
    Use: `yt-dlp with --write-comments --no-download --batch-file FILE`

    - FILE is a text file with a list of YouTube id's/URL's

    - https://superuser.com/a/1732443/4390

    - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
  • Forget spaceships; I just want my music
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2023
    > Then youtube-dl wasn't a thing anymore (maybe it is again?)...

    yt-dlp is definitely a thing: <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp>

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mpv-youtube-quality and yt-dlp you can also consider the following projects:

mpv_thumbnail_script - A Lua script to show preview thumbnails in mpv's OSC seekbar, sans external dependencies

Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass - A simple browser extension to bypass YouTube's age verification, disable content warnings and watch age restricted videos without having to sign in!

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

tiktok-scraper - TikTok Scraper. Download video posts, collect user/trend/hashtag/music feed metadata, sign URL and etc.

mpv-copyTime - Copy the current time of the video to clipboard.

youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

mpv-youtube-quality - A userscript for MPV that allows you to change youtube video quality (ytdl-format) on the fly

youtube-dlc - Command-line program to download various media from YouTube.com and other sites

mpv-scripts - A collection of scripts for mpv player