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laichiaheng

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Registered: 2017-02-12

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MPV doesn't display anything if it starts from the middle of the video

If I play YouTube video with MPV, it works fine if I play it from the beginning, but when I play it from the middle, I can't see anything.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: MPV doesn't display anything if it starts from the middle of the video

Play what youtube video (codec, live stream) how exactly (pre-downloaded or via yt-dlp)?
Is this a regression? YT is fudgign w/ the video delivery and yt-dlp "breaks" every other day (and the package is flagged out of date right now, there was a new release yesterday)

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laichiaheng

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Registered: 2017-02-12

Posts: 297

Re: MPV doesn't display anything if it starts from the middle of the video

Play what youtube video (codec, live stream) how exactly (pre-downloaded or via yt-dlp)?
Is this a regression? YT is fudgign w/ the video delivery and yt-dlp "breaks" every other day (and the package is flagged out of date right now, there was a new release yesterday)

Just any regular YouTube video, not live stream, I watch it via yt-dlp with MPV.

gary8588

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Registered: 2022-08-09

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Re: MPV doesn't display anything if it starts from the middle of the video

Noticed this too for a long time but has nothing to do with Arch. It is just google/youtube making it hard for 3rd party tools to download their stuff.

I suggest opening a issue on yt-dlp github project

seth

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Re: MPV doesn't display anything if it starts from the middle of the video

@laichiaheng, what codec and how do you "stat from the middle of the video"?
URL? mpv --start? Jump there w/ the UI? Does it happend w/o HW acceleration?

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