This will change the format option to "bestaudio/best" instead of
passing the "-x" argument to yt-dl.
Prevents the video still being downloaded in the new mpv versions where
the yt-dl format is set to "best" by default.
(cherry picked from commit 5555f6fc2c)
When setting options like --no-video, ytdl_hook adds the "-x" argument
to youtube-dl, so that bandwith is saved by not downloading the video on
some sites.
This option allows the user to pass non-supported options directly to
youtube-dl, such as "--proxy URL", "--username USERNAME" and
'--password PASSWORD".
There is no sanity checking so it's possible to break things (i.e.
if you pass "--version" mpv exits with random JSON error).
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
For some sites, youtube-dl sends a special user-agent. If we don't send
the same user-agent, the server will reject mpv's connection attempt.
This was observed with trailers.apple.com. Fix it by forcing the
user-agent youtube-dl uses.
Some sites set cookies when doing a website access, and require the
client to provide these cookies when downloading the actual media. This
is needed at least by nicovideo.jp. Fix by adding youtube-dl's cookies
to our request headers.
Both of these require a very recent youtube-dl version (youtube-dl added
the necessary headers a few hours ago). The script still works with
older youtube-dl versions, though.
this currently uses a sketchy but apparently working workaround,
which will be removed once the neccessary changes in youtube-dl
are implemented
Fixes#1277
It's passed with the '--format' option to youtube-dl.
If it isn't set, we don't pass '--format best' so that youtube-dl can
use the options from its configuration file.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
wm4