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I'm trying to use yt-dlp rather than youtube-dl due to the bottlenecking on download speeds in youtube-dl but I can't get it to work.

My mpv.conf file looks like:

script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

When trying to get mpv to run I get this warning:

[ytdl_hook] script-opts: unknown key ytdl_path, ignoring

Does anyone know what the problem is? I've read through the mpv docs and it says this should work.

mpv is version 0.27.2

tcotts
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I had the same problem as you, on mpv version 0.32.0. The problem is that the ytdl-hook settings category is not an option in these older versions. Your solutions are to update your mpv version or to create a link from youtube-dl to yt-dlp. Hope this helps.

vowels
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So this seems to be a version issue. You could try to get the newest mpv version running (make sure you actually have lua support with it). That however can be a real pain. A quicker solution is to just get rid of your old youtube-dl version and make a symbolic link called youtube-dl to your yt-dlp binary.

ouflak
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