youtube-dl [APK included]

[sfan5]

Dev TODO:

• integrate Python build script from here
• develop alternative solution to deal with SDK 28 restrictions (see context)

Mini-FAQ:

• Will this be integrated into the regular mpv-android?
  • Due to unsolved compatibility issues there are no plans at this time. The feature wouldn't make it into Google Play builds anyway.
• Remote videos take so long to load, why? can you fix it?
  • Python and yt-dlp just aren't very fast. There is effectively nothing I can do about it.
• My phone tells me it has blocked an insecure app from installing when I try this APK. Should I be concerned?
  • No, that's normal. You can choose to install it anyway.

APK Download -> https://kitsunemimi.pw/tmp/mpv-android-2024-05-05.apk
sha1: 32c99e7f7d5553aba5c145ae966dd91cac386c84
This APK installs as a separate app to normal mpv, there's no easy way to copy your config (sorry).

[soredake]

@sfan5 do you plan to merge this?

[Chubukov-Aleksey]

Maybe change brandname for youtube-dl enabled build? E.g.: "MPV - media player" (without youtube-dl) -> Google Play, "mpv-android" -> F-Droid and source only builds.

[kn-yami]

Maybe change brandname for youtube-dl enabled build? E.g.: "MPV - media player" (without youtube-dl) -> Google Play, "mpv-android" -> F-Droid and source only builds.

Why?

[wangw469]

@sfan5 I found vlc download from Google play can play YouTube without ads (even in background mode). Maybe we can have this feature for Google play version.

[oott123]

What a exciting feature! Is there any plan to merge this, or, is there any work before merge this?

[qquq]

Looks promising. Any ETA when it will be pushed to google play?

[foxjaw]

Yup. There are already a lot of release variants like arm64, x86_64, universal, debug, etc. Could be worth if this could be included in the releases naming it arm64-ytdlp
@IzzySoft Is it possible for you to include one variant from a release, even if this PR isn't merged ?

[IzzySoft]

Is it possible for you to include one variant from a release

I can pick exactly one APK, and that is matched by its name (using a regular expression). The unique key with F-Droid repos is <packageName>_<versionCode>, so there cannot be multiple variants with the same combination of the two – and my updater can only handle one APK per release (so I cannot pick two variants from the same tag/release).

But your app is not in my repo, so I'm not sure if this answers your question? APK size is already beyond the limit (30 MB per app) in my repo.

Edit: the per-ABI builds are within the limits, in case you thought to keep the F-Droid.org listing as-is and want me to include a specific variant not present there. Then you should think if both should share the same packageName, or if this special variant should have its own, specific packageName.

[foxjaw]

So in this case the original packageName is is.xyz.mpv & a release variant with the appID is.ytdl.mpv should suffice right ?

I guess the dev should do some packageID changes under @sfan5's ytdl branch, apply this patch & release it. I think this should be enough.

[foxjaw]

I believe NewPipe Extractor is faster than ytdl in terms of media scraping. Maybe some dev might kill their time to adapt the extractor into mpv-android. It's very lightweight & doesn't need python libraries either.
But would also lose the capability of playback of zillions of websites that ytdl supports.

[IzzySoft]

with the appID is.ytdl.mpv should suffice right ?

That should fit, yes. And the size of the APK should be below 30 MB, for my repo.

[foxjaw]

Someone should run IzzyHard for apps above 30 mB.

[IzzySoft]

Someone should run IzzyHard for apps above 30 mB.

Someone could go ahead. The instructions are available: Setting up a simple binary F-Droid repo. That does not include all the additional things like my APK scans and update checker, but all that can be added later 😉

[foxjaw]

Yup tqvm. mpv-android of a single ABI is just under 18mB I think it'll fit in your repo without any issues (unless you wanna have universal ABI variant).

[IzzySoft]

Universal is unlikely to fit, size-wise. I'd probably best take the arm64 variant I guess.

[sfan5]

I can change the app ID of this one by popular request, but I won't do any of the other suggestions.

[foxjaw]

Yes changing appid to is.ytdl.mpv at least would be one step ahead to the roadmap. Also make sure it's arm64 & not universal.
@IzzySoft Is it okay for you to just pickup apk from this PR with https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android/tree/sfan5/ytdl as source code link ?
We will make sure to flag the app outdated in your repo when @sfan5 pushes a new version here.

[IzzySoft]

@foxjaw My updater cannot pickup APKs from PRs. It uses releases for that – as those mark apps ready for release. So no, I won't pickup APKs from PRs, sorry. I'll gladly set up the fork once it's ready and you let me know, however.

We will make sure to flag the app outdated in your repo

Oh? How you'll do that? 😜 Guess you meant to let me know that I do so then. But I'm still lost on what you mean there: will the app with the new packageName replace the current one?

[Bonboon229]

Any updates on a new apk?

[sfan5]

New build uploaded. It has a different appID now.

[Univalpha]

Play protect blocking New apk..
2024-5-5

[sfan5]

See FAQ in first post.

[Univalpha]

See FAQ in first post.

But it's not giving option to install.

When I try to install it's show
Unable to install then apk automatically removed from phone..

Should I disable play protect first to install this version..

I installed previous versions without any issue don't know Why Play protect act weirdly.

Edit -- after disabled Play protect successfully installed thanks 👍.

[Univalpha]

See FAQ in first post.

Sorry for asking many questions but file picker working with play store version but yt version not showing anything how to fix this..

[sfan5]

Sorry for asking many questions but file picker working with play store version but yt version not showing anything how to fix this..

Not sure why that happens but you can go into system settings and then app permissions (for mpv+ytdl) and manually allow the ability to view all files.