Public bug reported:
The youtube-dl project has been archived and deprecated[1][5]. mpv prior
to v0.34 used youtube-dl to play streaming videos from the web.
youtube-dl was forked to yt-dlp, which has active development[2]. The
mpv developers moved from youtube-dl to yt-dlp because of this[1][5].
The v0.34 release of mpv will first look for yt-dlp, and then it will
look for youtube-dl if the former can't be found[3]. Users who do not
have yt-dlp installed will not be affected by the change, as mpv will
continue using youtube-dl.
As a user of mpv, I have run into issues like this[4], where watching
YouTube videos with mpv is nearly impossible because of youtube-dl
limiting the download speed to 50kbps. Using mpv v0.34 with yt-dlp, and
watching YouTube in HD is just as fast, or faster, than watching them in
a browser.
I'm on Impish with mpv v0.33.1 and youtube-dl v2021.12.17.
Here's how to replicate the bug from[4] on Impish:
$ export URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXJfuPaFF8";
$ mpv -v --gpu-context=wayland --hwdec=vaapi
--player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui "$URL"
$ # or just
$ mpv "$URL"
On my end, it will skip, stutter and fail to buffer. Using mpv v0.34
fixes the issue for me.
[1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9208
[2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
[3] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases/tag/v0.34.0
[4] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9468
[5] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/9209
** Affects: mpv (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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mpv versions below v0.34 ship with deprecated support for streaming
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