How to play Youtube in MPCHC

[kieksiedus]

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

In this 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 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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[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 YT vid then hardware acceleration is being used and playback is fluent.





When I play this video it doesn't use hardware decoding and playback isn't good, CPU is maxing out.




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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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 vid.

[clsid]

Use YDLVideoFormat=2, DXVA2 Native, and update to latest development build of MPC-HC.

[kieksiedus]

Originally Posted by clsid

Use YDLVideoFormat=2, DXVA2 Native, and update to latest development build of MPC-HC.

Epic! Now it works! Thanks a lot!

[kieksiedus]

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:

[lvqcl]

Originally Posted by kieksiedus

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

I see, thanks