Play with MPV

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Sends videos in pages like youtube to an external MPV player

Latest reviews

• (2023-09-15) Valandil Minyatur: Works perfect But the initial setup can be a lil problematic. Someone who isn't using git will get stuck at step #4. Without git installed: 1. Install MPV 2. Install python 3. Install chrome extension 4. Go to https://github.com/thann/play-with-mpv and download everthing by pressing "Code" [Green button] -> "Download ZIP" 5. Extract everything 6. Start server by running "play-with-mpv.py" 7. Reload any website for media playback / Restart browser The chrome extension has to be configured as well... Configure the plugin: 1. Open the extension settings 2. Select desired resolution 3. Enter the given server location by "play-with-mpv.py" (for example http://localhost:7531) 4. Enter in "MPV Arguments" --force-window (It didn't show a media window without it) Any media will be relayed to the server when pressing the extension button and the mpv media window should appear with it shortly after...
• (2023-06-09) Wolfgang Hukriede: Cannot get it installed. Relevant message is (I think): Preparing metadata (setup.py): started Preparing metadata (setup.py): finished with status 'error' error: subprocess-exited-with-error × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully. Someone willing to clarify? Sorry, I don't have hours to debug this stuff.
• (2021-12-07) MPK: Didn't work. Tried restarting broswer too. Have MPV installed too. Why?
• (2021-10-14) Владимир: But with youtube-dl low download speed from youtube, look at yt-dlp.
• (2021-10-08) Владимир: All works. Thanks.
• (2021-03-27) Cihan Ceylan: It does not explain how to run the server.
• (2021-03-23) M “M” M: excellent work on ubuntu 20.04. Thank you!
• (2021-02-06) Dmitry Fedorchenko: Хм, забавно, но оно работает. Конечно, это окно в окно Хромиума, а отдельное окно mpv. И да - youtube-dl нужно ставить. Без него - нечем качать видос для mpv. Проверял на Japan 8 60fps.
• (2021-01-28) Vitaly Kotov: Thank You, nice extension. My old notebook alive again!
• (2021-01-06) Jaroslav P.: Briliant! I love you! Love mpv and love youtube-dl! I love smart people! It resurrected my old laptop from the heavy and unsupported with VAAPI browsers. Moreover, it gives possibility to dirrect to the local network where the server is preinstalled and run mpv(SMplayer) with dedicated Raspberry Pi and a big screen for example. Why do I need to use bloatwared Chromecast further ... Wish you good health, happiness and success in your future endeavours!
• (2020-02-12) Francisco Boni: Perfect extension. Would be even more perfect if it implemented native hosts communication in a different version
• (2020-01-08) Marc Shawn: No instructions on how to run the sever after install both here and on Github. I don't know how anyone got this to work.
• (2019-11-25) Jeremy Morrison: I'm running linux with a Haswell GPU and hardware acceleration refuses to work in the browser, so I was suffering up to 250% CPU usage while watching videos. Even though I'm getting an error from play-with-mpv saying there's no support for codec vp9, the CPU has still come down to only about 40%. Awesome!
• (2019-11-12) Andrew Fader: This extension helps a lot on systems where graphics acceleration does not work well in your browser.
• (2017-08-20) Akiva Henig: Love this extension, the only thing I would like to see implemented is a way for it to launch the python server automatically so I don't have to do it in terminal every time.
• (2017-07-02) Vi Pau (Echo): Finally youtube with mpv without having to paste the link in terminal. Maybe it'd be cool to have this in right click menu for a link so you don't have to open the video in browser.
• (2017-06-30) Jonathan Knapp (共匪): I made it, so i might be a little biased ^>^

Latest issues

• (2022-06-28, v:0.1.0) John J Fitzpatrick: Mirror to My Smart TV???
  I'm almost 5 Days Trying to get my win10 Laptop Screen to Mirror to My Smart TV???
• (2022-04-26, v:0.1.0) tony danza: install errors
  i keep getting errors trying to install this, i think the pip install address needs to be updated because they changed things with their security,tried everything i could think of,even tried the fixes on the github
• (2021-12-07, v:0.1.0) MPK: Didn't work.
  MPV installed, chrome exists, restarted too. Pressing extension while playback (or) right-click > 'Play with MPV' none of those work. No output.
• (2021-08-20, v:0.1.0) Daniel Swick: Server not working
  File "/home/xxx/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/play_with_mpv.py", line 96 print(f"ERROR: {bin.upper()} does not appear to be installed correctly! please ensure you can launch '{bin}' in the terminal.")
• (2020-07-09, v:0.1.0) Yannick Oberhauser: Button not working in Manjaro Linux
  When I right click a youtube video and click play with MPV or enter a video and click the extension they won't work. Any hints? Thanks!
• (2020-06-30, v:0.1.0) William Luo: How do I properly use this with Windows?
  I'm a bit confused about the following steps in the description: 5. Run server: `play-with-mpv` from the terminal or use linux shortcut 6. (optional) Autostart on linux: `cp ~/.local/share/applications/thann.play-with-mpv.desktop ~/.config/autostart/` I'm assuming this is written for Linux users. I found 'play-with-mpv.exe' inside '/AppData/Roaming/Python/Python38/Scripts' How do I set it up so that there is always one instance when I am running Chrome? Any way to also have it set up to quit on Chrome exit, and turn back on when Chrome is turned on?
• (2020-05-24, v:0.1.0) Michael Glenn Williams: Can MPV play a WebRTC stream?
  Hi, Can we open live WebRTC wss links to play a WebRTC stream in this setup?
• (2020-04-24, v:0.1.0) niels reinke: help
  when i try to use the plugin this happens: Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 50543) Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\socketserver.py", line 316, in _handle_request_noblock self.process_request(request, client_address) File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\socketserver.py", line 347, in process_request self.finish_request(request, client_address) File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\socketserver.py", line 360, in finish_request self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\socketserver.py", line 720, in __init__ self.handle() File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\http\server.py", line 427, in handle self.handle_one_request() File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\http\server.py", line 415, in handle_one_request method() File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\play_with_mpv.py", line 50, in do_GET pipe = Popen(['mpv', url, '--force-window'] + File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__ self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, File "C:\Users\reink\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\subprocess.py", line 1307, in _execute_child hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args, FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden did i do something wrong during the installation?
• (2020-04-15, v:0.1.0) Dz Scritches: Use existing mpv window?
  Is there any way to get the extension to use an already open mpv instance to play a different video?
• (2019-08-13, v:0.0.4) FLLUFF GOSHEN: MPV PLAYER or utilizing different codec, H.264, allow direct downloading
  Im in comcast gateway hell. living in 30 house community, with wifi only. ALL HAVE TO SHARE. NO NETWORK ADMIN, SECURITY, or ROUTER FROM THIS CENTURY. LMFAO Thank you in advance, for your time, any help or information will be greatly appreciated. ELLIOTT G.