Some users with adblockers installed have noticed that videos are skipping straight to the end all of the sudden.
      • @Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2•6 months ago

        That is way too much faff if you are watching youtube daily.

        Get something like FreeTube, FOSS with all the ad blocking and sponsor blocking automatically enabled. And your subscriptions and other settings are all saved locally.

      • @vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5•6 months ago

        I just tried that and it’s not working for me. MPV just closes itself and VLC gives me an error message. Do I need to do more that just drag and drop the URL?

        • @rickyrigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
          8•6 months ago

          For VLC you need to go to Media > Open Network Stream (or Ctrl+N), then paste the youtube link there.

          For MPV use command line mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videocode

          • @vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2•6 months ago

            I got YouTube videos working in MPV. While I have no idea if the way I did it was technically not correct, all I did was download the newest version of yt-dlp from github and created a file name mpv.conf which links to the yt-dlp python file. I was also able to set a preferred resolution using that conf file.

          • @vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            4•6 months ago

            VLC still gives me the same error message.

            For MPV, it gives me the following error message:

            `mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e9_l2oGxdw [ytdl_hook] ERROR: [youtube] 3e9_l2oGxdw: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred Failed to recognize file format.

            Exiting… (Errors when loading file) `

            • FrellwitEnglish
              3•6 months ago

              Your mpv or vlc versions may be too old. Try updating them to the latest versions.

              • @vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                2•6 months ago

                Well, while MPV might be outdated, I already mentioned that I was able to get YouTube videos working by downloading a newer version of yt-dlp and creating a conf file for MPV that links to it. While I was looking into the problem, the versions available in apt for all three of these are outdated by at least a year, possible 3 years for MPV. I’m not sure if this is just a Linux Mint issue but I have noticed that a lot of the software both preinstalled and available in it’s repository, are pretty outdated.

                I might try downloading the newer versions of these later. I got MPV working and that’s good enough for me right now.

                • FrellwitEnglish
                  3•6 months ago

                  Mint is known to use old software in its repositories as it’s based on Ubuntu LTS. The flatpak mpv should work though. flatpak install flathub io.mpv.Mpv and then run it with flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

                  If you don’t want to type flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv all the time, you can create an alias in your ~/.bashrc file. For example: alias play='flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv'. (After editing your bashrc file, run: source ~/.bashrc to activate the change). Then you can run it with play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.

                  • @vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                    1•6 months ago

                    I know it’s been a while but I tried the flatpak version of mpv and it’s not working. If I open the flatpak version without any music it opens but it becomes unresponsive as soon as I try to load any music. I also have no idea how to diagnose this issue as running the flatpak version in the terminal gives no error messages.

                    The version that comes with Linux Mint works perfectly fine, so I don’t need the flatpak version, I’m just curious as to why the flatpak version doesn’t work.

                  • @vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                    1•6 months ago

                    I might try that later because, like I said earlier, I got the version of MPV that’s already installed to play YouTube videos and that fine for me. I also made configurations to the preinstalled version and I don’t know if it would be easy, or even possible, to transfer them to the flatpak version.