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belaviyo
MPV - some youtube videos will not work for seemingly no reason.
I'm trying to use Send to MPV player with Firefox which seems to work most of the time but for some reason it isn't 100% working. For example I just tried to watch this video and it will not load: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFRW2FOrpuk
That is only one example but I have had it happen before several times. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it because it seems no different than any other video.
I have tried playing it manually by passing the URL to MPV myself and it will work, but not from within the browser.
From mpv documentation about --load-unsafe-playlists:
Load URLs from playlists which are considered unsafe (default: no). This includes special protocols and anything that doesn't refer to normal files. Local files and HTTP links on the other hand are always considered safe.
Right now I am using Open With and it handles above link without a problem.
I've tried Open With but it can't seem to handle long URLs with special symbols like "&"
I've been having this issue occasionally, the latest being this Youtube video and adding load-unsafe-playlists=yes into mpv.conf seems to have fixed it for me as well. Not sure why though, since manually running mpv <the problematic url> via the terminal without load-unsafe-playlists has always worked for me when Send to MPV hasn't.
I think it would be worth adding this to a help file or FAQ as a known issue with MPV. There are probably a lot of users who just put up with it since it doesn't occur all that often.
