About vidytmpv

Custom browser extension to play youtube videos directly in MPV

How it works

• A browser extension adds buttons on the thumbnails with a custom url (such as vidytmpv://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omy3BERUd1g).
• A custom mimetype (x-scheme-handler/vidytmpv) captures vidytmpv:// urls and is configured to point to a vidytmpv-handler.desktop file.
• The vidytmpv-handler.desktop file calls a shell script that executes pipe-viewer with the correct youtube video url.
• pipe-viewer streams the video to mpv. It can be configured to launch vlc instead.

Setup

This is currently Linux only, unless you can figure out the way to execute a script through a custom URL scheme on other OSes

Dependencies: pipe-viewer, mpv, zsh

• cd to the repo in the terminal
• make sure the scripts are executable chmod +x ./scripts/*
• install the custom url scheme handler file cp ./scripts/vidytmpv-handler.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
• install the mpv opener script to somewhere in your path cp ./scripts/vidytmpv-scheme-open ~/.local/bin/, this script uses zsh, but you can change it to bash if you don't have zsh installed
• add this line under [Added Associations]: x-scheme-handler/vidytmpv=vidytmpv-handler.desktop in ~/.config/mimeapps.list or your distro's equivalent
• manually install the extension (tested on brave, you may need to enable developer mode)

Here it is in action, adds buttons on every thumbnail, and in the video description.

vidytmpv.mp4