[SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

Succulent of your garden · 2025-03-25 23:07:49

Hi

So as you probably know in arch exists the yt-dlp package https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/yt-dlp/ which you can use to fetch videos. I really like the approach and made a script that uses dmenu to send url link and then awk the url to get the video id (the part after watch?v=) to send it over yt-dlp. My commmand to do that in the script is this:

yt-dlp --no-cookies --rm-cache-dir --no-cookies-from-browser -o  - --downloader ffmpeg -f "bv*+ba/b" "$videoID" | mpv -

So "$videoID" it's the obviously the video id fetched with awk from the url. But with this way I have two problems:

1) Sometimes the audio get lost, and only the frames of the video are displayed and without sound. Usually this happen in the last part of the videos, but it's random in nature.
2) I'm not getting the subtitles, not a problem, but sometimes I like to get the subs for many reasons.
3) mpv kills his own process after reproducing the video completely, I really want to send by myself the shutdown of mpv, and not after completing video reproduction.
4) I don't know if I could speed up the video reproduction in mpv, probabbly I would like to see 2x videos with subs to improve my daytime.

btw I use pipewire. Any help with this I will appreciate so much.

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (Yesterday 13:02:59)

256 · 2025-03-26 01:11:19

Did some digging through the man page, and you can make mpv not quit when the video ends using --keep-open. I recommend grepping in the man page for this, since it goes into some detail.

seth · 2025-03-26 08:36:40

mpv can play youtube videos (utilizing yt-dlp) directly, you can add "ytdl-raw-options" to your mpv.conf,

ytdl-raw-options='sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=,format=""bv*+ba/b"'

mpv 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789'

cycle subtitles w/ j and speed is done w/ {[]}

frostschutz · 2025-03-26 08:46:17

Succulent of your garden wrote:

2) I'm not getting the subtitles, not a problem, but sometimes I like to get the subs for many reasons.

try with --embed-subs --sub-langs=all

Succulent of your garden · 2025-03-26 12:12:35

Hi thanks for the replies, now 3) and 4) are done, but I have an issue with the implementation of the subs, neither of both options works for me if I set the flags in yt-dl, could you put the command explicit in the thread post ? The main reason is because I had checked this with the man pages (Except the mpv one ), and I don't know how to make it work.

seth wrote:

mpv can play youtube videos (utilizing yt-dlp) directly, you can add "ytdl-raw-options" to your mpv.conf,
ytdl-raw-options='sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=,format=""bv*+ba/b"'
mpv 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789'

This is another great approach, but I will no try that first because In my script I'm using my custom dmenu to get the current clipboard by default , so less ctrl+v and more fun, with custom message included to be sure I just launched the right script by shortcut.

So for the audio lost, I have some news, It seems if I just mute mpv, and then unmute again the sound, the sound get lost forever, unless I close the mpv process and launch the script again. What do you think about that ? Also I'm checking that after some ussage, the gpu in nvtop said that it's been 100% being in use, but with far more vram free. It's an integrated card, amd Radeon vega 3. So for example now nvtop says it's 100% being in use but the vram is 189 Mi in use, and with the total of 512 Mi. It seems that this is not allowing to get the same video again. it's like for 10 videos the gpu is out, but if I go with the browser and click the same video, the browser doesn't have any problems and reproduce the video with the gpu being 100% in use. Also no crazy fan spinning, just comfy sound from the machine.

EDIT: Okey I just reboot and check that the graphics card just start with 100% gpu ussage in nvtop LoL, What do you think ? Using LTS kernel btw.

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-03-26 12:36:56)

seth · 2025-03-26 12:52:25

my script I'm using my custom dmenu to get the current clipboard by default

What does that have to do with anything?
You're apparently cutting the VID out of the URL intead of just using the url (which yt-dlp can handle itself, whether or not through mpv)

You're probably losing the audio because YT no longer serves AV containers but only audio and video streams => try to use mpv directly instead of the pipe.

gpu in nvtop said that it's been 100% being in use

format="(140/m4a[format_note~=original])+(134/135)"

but yeah, decoding a 4k AV1/VP9 might tax your GPU a bit.

neither of both options works for me if I set the flags in yt-dl, could you put the command explicit in the thread post

Just add

--sub-lang="en --eng,enUS,en-US" --write-sub= --write-auto-sub=

to your yt-dlp parameters?
The syntax in my post is for the mpv.conf

Succulent of your garden · 2025-03-27 16:21:25

Hi seth:

seth wrote:

my script I'm using my custom dmenu to get the current clipboard by default
What does that have to do with anything?
You're apparently cutting the VID out of the URL intead of just using the url (which yt-dlp can handle itself, whether or not through mpv)

yes, you are right, now that I'm thinking it less tired, that was a very silly comment, I don't know why I was thinking in the first time that in someway my dmenu command was in somehow attach in the part of fetching the url. So silly for me, like camelot. Hope you get the monty python reference.

seth wrote:

You're probably losing the audio because YT no longer serves AV containers but only audio and video streams => try to use mpv directly instead of the pipe.

I'll try your approach, it's seems far more better if that's the case.

gpu in nvtop said that it's been 100% being in use
format="(140/m4a[format_note~=original])+(134/135)"
but yeah, decoding a 4k AV1/VP9 might tax your GPU a bit.

Okey but remember that the gpu is in 100% since the begining of the system. After just starts, in idle mode, the gpu is in 100%, but probably it' does not and the metrics is saying 100% . So what do you think about it ?

neither of both options works for me if I set the flags in yt-dl, could you put the command explicit in the thread post

Just add
--sub-lang="en --eng,enUS,en-US" --write-sub= --write-auto-sub=
to your yt-dlp parameters?
The syntax in my post is for the mpv.conf

And for the config file for mpv, should I put all my other config like this ?

ytdl-raw-options='sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=,format=""bv*+ba/b,no-cookies,rm-cache-dir,no-cookies-from-browser"'

So I can't download cookies by default and also doesn't store the video in ssd ? Also what about the flag -o --downloader ffmpeg ? I guessing that if I'm using mpv probabbly it's not needed.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-03-27 16:24:22)

seth · 2025-03-27 17:25:33

There's a stray double-quote in your key and no: "-o -" would not be helpful and --downloader is not required.

Okey but remember that the gpu is in 100% since the begining of the system. After just starts, in idle mode, the gpu is in 100%, but probably it' does not and the metrics is saying 100%

I'm afraid we'll need that in English, please…

Succulent of your garden · 2025-03-27 18:06:01

seth wrote:

There's a stray double-quote in your key and no: "-o -" would not be helpful and --downloader is not required.

So like this right ? :

ytdl-raw-options='sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=,format=""bv*+ba/b"",no-cookies,rm-cache-dir,no-cookies-from-browser'

seth wrote:

Succulent of your garden wrote:
Okey but remember that the gpu is in 100% since the begining of the system. After just starts, in idle mode, the gpu is in 100%, but probably it' does not and the metrics is saying 100%
I'm afraid we'll need that in English, please…

I'm sorry today I'm feeling dizzy like Mongo in this video but without the urge to kill or insult someone: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M91lzp1u7ww tut mir leid.

What I'm trying to say is the following: When you launch nvtop after rebooting the system and you do nothing, just to get how much of the gpu usage is being in use in idle mode, the gpu says that is in 100% being in use. But that doesn't follow the total amount of vram of the system which is like 189 Mi of the total of 512 Mi. For me that seems to be maybe a driver issue or a bug in nvtop, because launching any other application the system just works fine, and also there are no insane fan spinning or heat. So long story short: my nvtop says that by default my gpu is being 100% being in use

I'm reading this and for now it seems fine, but today I'm having a happy Mongo day, if I wrote something wierd: Entschuldigung Seth, Ich habe kopfschmerzen :C

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-03-27 18:09:55)

seth · 2025-03-27 20:46:19

Try

ytdl-raw-options='sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=,format="bv*+ba/b",no-cookies,rm-cache-dir,no-cookies-from-browser'

The GPU load isn't equivalent to the VRAM usage - do you run a (wayland) compositor?
(Though it might be a bogus read indeed)

Succulent of your garden · 2025-03-27 21:52:25

Thanks, I'll try the mpv config tomorrow and I'll let you know what happen.

And no, I don't have a wayland compositor, but that machine does have installed wayland and hyprland, but I drop my wayland looking around and now just I stay with Xorg.

Succulent of your garden · 2025-03-29 20:56:15

hi seth, this issue happend with your mpv config:

Expected '=' and a value.
Error parsing option ytdl-raw-options (option parameter could not be parsed)
~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf:144: setting option ytdl-raw-options='sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=,format="bv*+ba/b",no-cookies,rm-cache-dir,no-cookies-from-browser' failed.

do you think is for the empty write-sub= and write-auto-sub= ?
The video show the first frame and then stops btw

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-03-29 20:56:47)

seth · 2025-03-29 22:47:36

No, it's the missing "0" in yoru cookies and cachedir options.

ytdl-raw-options='sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=,format="bv*+ba/b",no-cookies=,rm-cache-dir=,no-cookies-from-browser='

The video show the first frame and then stops btw

In doubt try

format="(140/m4a[format_note~=original])+(134/135)"

Succulent of your garden · Yesterday 13:05:25

Thanks Seth, now It works. Also with the best format possible

But i'm not sure why I should put the 0 in the cookies flag stuff. Does zero means that my flag is going to be disabled ? Since mpv is not a browser I'm not sure if it can store cookies, and also I don't want to store the video forever, so that's the reason of rm-cache-dir. If I want that: Should I put a 1 after the = sign ?

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (Yesterday 13:06:00)

seth · Yesterday 13:44:03

Nowhere, typo - sorry.
"=", not "0" - the ytdl-raw-options I posted are however correct.

The flag doesn't take a parameter, but ytdl-raw-options requires the foo=[bar] syntax

Succulent of your garden · Yesterday 14:03:26

So in essence are the flags getting activated right ? So no cookies and video send to ram and never to storage drive right ?

seth · Yesterday 14:31:08

Yup.
Whether they're respected you'll have to wireshark for.

--no-cookies and --no-cookies-from-browser are default, though.

Succulent of your garden · Yesterday 14:45:32

thanks so much for the help

Now it's so comfy to get my video in my dwm with among other things, and also I can watch my videos in x 3

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (Yesterday 14:45:43)

Arch Linux

#1 2025-03-25 23:07:49

[SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#2 2025-03-26 01:11:19

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#3 2025-03-26 08:36:40

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#4 2025-03-26 08:46:17

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#5 2025-03-26 12:12:35

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#6 2025-03-26 12:52:25

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#7 2025-03-27 16:21:25

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#8 2025-03-27 17:25:33

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#9 2025-03-27 18:06:01

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#10 2025-03-27 20:46:19

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#11 2025-03-27 21:52:25

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#12 2025-03-29 20:56:15

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#13 2025-03-29 22:47:36

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#14 Yesterday 13:05:25

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#15 Yesterday 13:44:03

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#16 Yesterday 14:03:26

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#17 Yesterday 14:31:08

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

#18 Yesterday 14:45:32

Re: [SOLVED] help in Improving yt-dlp ussage

Board footer