How to play Youtube in MPCHC

[kieksiedus]

Does anyone know how to play Youtube video's in MPCHC?

In this (https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/pxb7co/comment/hemib60/) post someone states that it should work, but when I try this nothing happens. I tried this on multiple computers with different internet connections.

When I search Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+mpchc) for possible solutions I see different possibilities, but I can't get this to work.

Does anyone have advise or experience with this?

[Sunspark]

Place yt-dlp.exe ffmpeg.exe and ffmprobe.exe in the mpc-hc folder.

Paste the youtube url in the open menu.

If subtitles needed, configure the options for them in advanced.

[kieksiedus]

Place yt-dlp.exe ffmpeg.exe and ffmprobe.exe in the mpc-hc folder.

Paste the youtube url in the open menu.

If subtitles needed, configure the options for them in advanced.

This works perfectly! Now I can enjoy fluent Youtube video with my old Shuttle XH61V on my television! :thanks:

[clsid]

For playback you only need yt-dlp.exe. The other files are only needed for downloading (Menu > File > Save a copy).

[v0lt]

Why does MPC-HC need ffmprobe.exe?

[kieksiedus]

I run into the following problem.


When I for example play this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9RH8rEDY2k) YT vid then hardware acceleration is being used and playback is fluent.

https://am3pap006files.storage.live.com/y4ms0_c-u55rjFBKHFXT28Xv9dfEYAcjtqUJiffquRIt4sAZsa_w3IeLclXNXd9lt44zlYtIguA9zSGpahSV5Ah_6iif1A_BorKAubWNIa7U28pwg_U3nsLsmh7TEaJrzdB7E8lRHCQX1gH5jow8THo6cKBzmqXzmySknnPqet-vVYrZ9-5MyHthh3yE53F0LFoB5H5MLMOVElqATfvxnnNgQ/2.PNG?psid=1&width=1370&height=400



When I play this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VC32jVIi8) video it doesn't use hardware decoding and playback isn't good, CPU is maxing out.

https://am3pap006files.storage.live.com/y4m9Vx1Llbykk4M8nPS7wC_oudTOytrm1hL5YHOz33Q9-R2GtDAPFt6RNtCbaFQ-kAdNKM3N3P66gnquEIv1ymVBn22sq-JBGdKbdr0x-mkNG0m64KQBgGU3iilKfbHe3AWpF2SaRzNIrBzEjihVUIySlnpao8jW3wOqACoDaLIps_A5q8Erj1omiIxQ3X7pj8bJTVezg8Vs7yl4EY6VxfSyg/1.PNG?psid=1&width=1351&height=419


Does anyone know if this can be fixed?

[SirMaster]

This filter works really well for me and lets me intimately configure exactly what I want to receive from YouTube in terms of video and audio when I give it a URL to play.

https://ys.3dyd.com/home/

[huhn]

go to option -> advanced.
set the YDLmaxheight to a sensible setting you can decode/have the screen resolution.
set YDLvideofromat to 2 or to what ever your intel GPU supports.

[kieksiedus]

go to option -> advanced.
set the YDLmaxheight to a sensible setting you can decode/have the screen resolution.
set YDLvideofromat to 2 or to what ever your intel GPU supports.

I set YDLMaxHeight to 1080 and tried every YDLVideoFormat setting in combination with either DXVA2 (native) or D3D11, but I can't get hardware decoding to work with this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VC32jVIi8) vid.



https://gpuz.techpowerup.com/22/08/03/wjx.png

[clsid]

Use YDLVideoFormat=2, DXVA2 Native, and update to latest development build of MPC-HC (https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/1.9.22.2).

[kieksiedus]

Use YDLVideoFormat=2, DXVA2 Native, and update to latest development build of MPC-HC (https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/1.9.22.2).

Epic! :goodpost: Now it works! Thanks a lot! :)

[kieksiedus]

I just try to understand one more thing. When I play this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VC32jVIi8) vid or some local m2ts-file it uses DXVA2 Native decoding, but when I take a look (while playing) at the video decoder properties it states that DXVA2 (native) is inactive/none:

https://am3pap006files.storage.live.com/y4mMNA_g3wdkCYohMIOJvJq1j_-2t0AHGnlQ3pJoWdbb3sp_cfDoXdBnqFZ0xerUGd-YuhZ54MjMAiTwJticV8ZMap4PPdQgnAR2XZAgQXBIWtijXYFilXjpJ5x_JS7KvN3sde2H5gqMsoxG9X2p7l1WPtLZLGVUKPpBnV_iQWfaKXb5GLAwLxdOK-WTm9BsX_6xsh0_cHTJpqJTktueBdclQ/22.PNG?psid=1&width=1353&height=328

https://am3pap006files.storage.live.com/y4m9Smv214u61yNYMhka5QmVeJGNYFv173RTQwiBhTlHlF-IVZr-TBs59m7VedUImLUJn7reuGk5JezeBDe8W032rkdI-i3f9AlKtFMV_RbrYYjRmRsRoyAS5F2Pm4BjvgQuDX5K4RFVAheRHMkcIsWkbUS1SoNNingfQNBYQYhOMw0r-m5oTTKLMYofotEyJGQ8xnquCFFe-_oKLKBaEmrHw/11.PNG?psid=1&width=649&height=569

[lvqcl]

I just try to understand one more thing. When I play this vid or some local m2ts-file it uses DXVA2 Native decoding, but when I take a look (while playing) at the video decoder properties it states that DXVA2 (native) is inactive/none:


You have two instances of the LAV Video decoder. The first decodes AVC with DXVA2 (native) and the second does nothing and is inactive.

[clsid]

The player shows "H/W" in its status bar when hardware acceleration is active. So you do not need to look anywhere else.

To view status of active filters, access their settings through:
Menu > Play > Filters
If you access the settings some other way, like through a start menu shortcut, then you are opening a new and inactive instance.

[kieksiedus]

The player shows "H/W" in its status bar when hardware acceleration is active. So you do not need to look anywhere else.

To view status of active filters, access their settings through:
Menu > Play > Filters
If you access the settings some other way, like through a start menu shortcut, then you are opening a new and inactive instance.

I see, thanks :)

https://am3pap006files.storage.live.com/y4m6Yde1Vq9g7zFtEtgmAWfINepPOMC-dhNS3BECGM5Upo4HiAg03AjTiKKgPNcnVv48T8VEIt3LZ_gtP_Efcg9nclogmxcCO_0uDdgzMSwBx9nb-d4nPUEqbLn3aUtmmwSEuELfMZ1GLIEzpZHN1HzaL2WOOZNylWhgsa1qm6jJhSOMJlFPtRNs-9fYPoSGHRD0-HjhhETMsSev909ZblP0A/33.PNG?psid=1&width=255&height=191

[kieksiedus]

Is it also possible to bitstream audio with youtube-dl in MPCHC when playing video’s?

[huhn]

it's aac or opus usually so no this is usually not implemented for bit streaming neither be common DS filter nor by AVR/TVs.

[StainlessS]

# ... #
Optional (Recommended): Place ffmpeg.exe in the same folder for better quality and format support.
# ... #

Is it ok to have ffmpeg.exe in system path, rather than MPC-HC directory ?

[Emulgator]

If somebody wants a particular app to use only a specific version of ffmpeg.exe
I would suggest to put that particular ffmpeg.exe it into that program exe's folder.
It will be the first one to be loaded. Maybe this would be the safe haven for MPC-HC's use as transcoding tool in matching version.
(I need that here, Audacity and other s/w will only work with their matching version, given commandline syntax changes, CPU/OS dependent builds and so on)

Any other s/w without specifiable ffmpeg.exe path will have to dig deeper until they find one in system path.
This would be their fallback solution then.

"Systemwide" may sound nice at first, but:
If flawed all falling back s/w inherit that flaw, and if well-built, all falling back s/w inherit that asset.

I am rather hesitant to destroy proven bridges if I want just to test a new one.

[StainlessS]

Thanks for that gator.