play-with-mpv vs external-application-button

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play-with-mpv		external-application-button
	Project
14	Mentions	6
339	Stars	157
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.7
7 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
The Unlicense	License	-

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play-with-mpv

Posts with mentions or reviews of play-with-mpv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-14.

Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2023

Here's several options for opening with either mpv or saving with yt-dlp:
https://github.com/Thann/play-with-mpv (chrome)
Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. Is this a new thing they've implemented?
13 projects | /r/youtube | 9 May 2023
pip subprocess to install backend dependencies did not run successfully
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 28 Apr 2023

Do the suggestions here help you: https://github.com/Thann/play-with-mpv/issues/86
pip subprocess to install backend dependencies did not run successfully.
1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 27 Apr 2023

I'm trying to run this using python for the first time for the occasion and I encountered this error
Why would you need to add MPV to path?
1 project | /r/mpv | 6 Dec 2022

You could open mpv quicker in command line or terminal if you added it to PATH. It's also required for extensions like play-with-mpv
youtube send to mpv not working from browser
2 projects | /r/mpv | 31 Dec 2021
Can't update MPV Player and FFMPEG. E: The repository does not have a Release file.
1 project | /r/mpv | 2 Nov 2021

When i run sudo apt install ffmpeg, it says i already have the most recent version of FFMPEG installed. But i know FFMPEG is already on version 4.4. How do i solve these issues? I got this MPV PPA from installing the Play With MPV chrome extention from here: https://github.com/Thann/play-with-mpv
Play with MPV plugin doesn't work.
1 project | /r/mpv | 30 Oct 2021
Why Play With MPV doesn't work on my PC (Pop!_OS 21.04)
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 23 Oct 2021

Hi, it's me again, the guy wanting to enable hardware acceleration for video playblack on web browsers. All of that led me to a deep rabbit hole about how Linux lacks support for GPU acceleration for things like YouTube. After discovering Gnome Web + Gstream plugins doesn't fully offload the decoding to the GPU, i gave up and tried to install the Play With MPV chrome extention on my Google Chrome. I followed all the steps described here in the GitHub: https://github.com/Thann/play-with-mpv
how to use zip download as git clone alternative
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 18 Sep 2021

i have tried to get help by posting at reddit and at github issues but no help till now.

external-application-button

Posts with mentions or reviews of external-application-button. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.

How to send a URL from page or of current page to a .bat file ?
2 projects | /r/chrome | 3 Jun 2023

Source https://github.com/andy-portmen/external-application-button
Need help develop Browser Extension to send URL from browser using right click menu or of current page to a youtube-dl bat script
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 2 Jun 2023

External Application Launcher (Chrome extension)
Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 May 2023

This probably wouldn't be possible due to browser sandboxing.
You could however, use a tool like External Application Button [0] in order to send the URL of the page to a script/program, which in turn can make the body of the page parsable by downloading the URL it gets, automating some action on it. I use it pretty often to automate downloads with yt-dlp or opening a picture directly in GIMP from the browser, but since you're invoking a bash/python/whatever script, the possibilities are basically endless.
[0]: https://github.com/andy-portmen/external-application-button
Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. Is this a new thing they've implemented?
13 projects | /r/youtube | 9 May 2023

Like above reply. But you can use this addon https://github.com/andy-portmen/external-application-button/ to connect browser with other programs like yt-dlp, mpv, sandbox, streamlink(to watch twitch without ads), aria2c etc
Can someone create a browser extension of ytdl(-p)?
3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 28 Jan 2023

I'm using "External Application Button", not just for ytdl. You can put arguments, i'm recommending using -o for defining default folder too. Github link
Guide - How to use youtubedl as a browser addon
1 project | /r/youtubedl | 30 Aug 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing play-with-mpv and external-application-button you can also consider the following projects:

ff2mpv - A Firefox/Chrome add-on for playing URLs in mpv.

openwith - Open With add-on for Firefox

shaka-player - JavaScript player library / DASH & HLS client / MSE-EME player

ydl_api_ng

Librefox - Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements

invidious-custom - Invidious with some git patches (mostly from existing PRs)

video-react - A web video player built for the HTML5 world using React library.

NeuralBlock - Neural Network that detects in-video YouTube sponsorships.

chrome-extension-aspectratio219 - 🖥️ Fit the screen properly in fullscreen mode on monitor ultrawide with 21:9 aspect ratio (Netflix, Youtube, PrimeVideo, Crunchyroll)

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

Vynchronize - Watch videos with friends online with the new real time video synchronization platform

odysee-api - API server for Odysee