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kovac

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[SOLVED] MPV Player is not streaming YouTube video

I installed mpv player using "sudo pacman -S mpv" and the installation was successful. When I try to play a YouTube video like:

mpv https://youtu.be/50VNCymT-Cs

I get the error:

[ytdl_hook]  
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: not found or not enough permissions 
Failed to recognize file format.

Last edited by kovac (2020-04-24 10:14:35)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] MPV Player is not streaming YouTube video

Works for me. What is the output of `pacman -Q youtube-dl`?

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kovac

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Registered: 2020-03-14

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Re: [SOLVED] MPV Player is not streaming YouTube video

Ah, I didn't have youtube-dl installed... Thank you for your help!