On 2026/09/11 02:33, Lucas Raab wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 02:42:45PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2026/09/10 15:00, Robert Nilsson wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > I think it would be great to have an option to install mpv > > > without the yt-dlp dependency. Sometimes it's nice to just > > > have a good media player without all the stuff that comes > > > with yt-dlp. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > With the addition of py-yt_dlp_ejs the deps for yt-dlp are indeed > > getting a bit heavy, so I think this would make sense. The error > > message when opening a URL if yt-dlp is not present looks like this: > > > > [ytdl_hook] Subprocess failed: init > > [ytdl_hook] Subprocess failed: init > > [ytdl_hook] Subprocess failed: init > > [ytdl_hook] > > [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: not found or not enough permissions > > Failed to recognize file format. > > > > it would help if that message mentioned yt-dlp so that users wanting > > it have a better clue for which software to install, so here's a > > possible diff. Anyone have tweaks/objections? > > Considering the youtube-dl homepage now redirects to yt-dlp, might be > best to only mention yt-dlp in the error message? either way ok lraab@ > > youtube-dl seems to be in some kind of no-man's-land. The homepage > redirects to yt-dlp, the repo though still has regular activity, but > none of the installation options barring "developer instructions" > would get you a reasonably up to date version which might work. > > https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#adding-support-for-a-new-site > https://yt-dl.org/
I've gone with my version mentioning both for now. > Thoughts on retiring youtube-dl? I think it's still useful for now. Because yt-dlp depends on deno for solving js challenges (which are only needed on a limited number of the many supported video/audio download sites) it's restricted to only being usable on rust archs.
