Watching Youtube in very old (even 32bits) pc’s (and in more recent ones too)

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Hi @christophe and @olsztyn,

The author Samillion provides a template ytdlautoformat.lua that you can easily modify for your needs. It is easy to learn and modify.

You have to create the folder ~/.config/mpv/scripts and then put that ytdlautoformat.lua file in that folder. And that is it. But you have to modify the ytdlautoformat.lua for your own needs.

I am glad I can pass this on to other users.
Thanks.

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I tried that script, but it threw out an error, and when the video started, it was still too big/too slow for my lil ol 32-bit netbook. 🙁

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I think it might be related to my working with a stripped-down antiX-core that I made. It might be missing something that normal antiX has. I’ll try again with antiX base/full later…

But I found this (in case anyone finds it useful):

Add this line to ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf (If you don’t have that file, create it & add line.)

ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?360][fps<=?30][vcodec!=?vp9]+bestaudio/best

It works great! I tested it on a ytfzf file I knew was too big/slow for this computer. And it played the version that was 360p (as I need for this computer).

If your computer is a bit better that this one, set the height value to 480 or 720 (or whatever you want).

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by christophe. Reason: additional thought

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