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Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
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Some Firefox users noticed playback issues on YouTube for several months. These affected high resolution videos only, from 1080p and up. To make matters worse, no clear pattern could be identified.

Some videos played fine, others would stop abruptly when they ran out of buffer.

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[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

I stopped watching on their website due to this. It's faster and I get better scalers on ytdl(p)+mpv

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Are Piped or vanced affected as well?

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 9 points 4 months ago

I exclusively use Piped, and never have any problems. No ads, no bullshit, sponsorblock and DeArrow.

[-] 50MYT@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

I had issues yesterday with re vanced, but it was only a couple of videos not all

[-] t0fr@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

You browse YouTube in the browser then use a handler to send it to MPV?

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

What is this?

[-] GodsKillerKirb@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

mpv? yt-dlp? mpv is a media player, kind of like VLC but more powerful and lightweight.
yt-dlp is a CLI (command line interface) tool that allows you to download youtube videos as videos, videos without audio, or just as audio files.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

More powerful and lightweight than VLC? I didn't know such things existed.

[-] Kuro@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Could you elaborate on your workflow for that? I am really interested in doing the same.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Personally, I copy the url from the link or at worst the url bar after clicking into youtube.

Then 'mpv + [pasted url]' into a terminal (I use Yakuake as a quick terminal) and it's away quicker than youtube.com anyway.

mpv automagically invokes ytdl/yt-dlp if you have it installed on linux or if it's in the same directory as mpv or in a directory added to your windows search paths on windows. MacOS, just use a package manager like macports/homebrew.

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