mpv uses ffmpeg to download/stream the videos (from youtube, or other video platforms) and not ytdl.mpv uses ytdl (or any of its forks) just to get the video url.

This is what I was thinking and want to share it here.Īfter reading this thread, i want to do a summary, to check if i understand things correctly: İt would be great if this was used for cr and for streaming directly with mpv. There is this yt-dlc fork yt-dlp that does support aria2c as the external downloader for DASH(mpd) and HLS(m3u8) formats. so I thought it would be great actually if there was tentative solution with aria2c for now?Ĭopy and paste url to mpv is more convient than separately downloading the file with yt-dl ffmpeg which download speed is slow. I did look at the other issues dates saw that it is being more than 3-4 years and it looks like ffmpeg isn't doing anything about it ☹️.

I thank you for your help and understand it not only for you to decide but I hope that this maybe will happen someday. I want to say all the things below for it just to be only idea or request. Like mentioned before and the other issues, this is something ffmpeg should add.

I am not sure if this is something we want in our youtube-dl script.

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