How to use external yt-dlp

[clarjon1]

Hello!

I'm trying to use smplayer with windows 10, and I've been coming from using mpv and yt-dlp, both of which are already in my system $PATH variable

As I dont want to be syncing multiple configuration files around my system, I'd really like to be able to use the mpv and yt-dlp on my system! Mostly because my system yt-dlp configuration has been configured for being able to use cookies from a specific browser install so it can access media locked behind login screens!

I've been able to get it to use the mpv install fine from c:/tools/mpv/mpv.exe but I dont see a way to pass a way to make smplayer not pass --ytdl --script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=C:/Users/clarjon1/.smplayer/yt-dlp to the binary! This is very frustrating to me, as the yt-dlp I want is in c:/tools/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.exe

Is there an option I'm overlooking or should I put in a feature request to be able to configure this tool that relies on external tools to use a specific install of the external tool?

[smplayer-dev]

If you set "support for video sites" to "disabled" in preferences -> network, smplayer won't pass any --yt-dlp options. You can then pass your own options in preferences -> advanced -> mplayer/mpv -> options.

[clarjon1]

cool, that's mostly accurate and does work. There is a ytdl option that gets passed per logs (`--ytdl=no`) but luckily passing `--ytdl=yes` overrides that still would be nice if the option where you can tell it to use ytdl would let you input the path to the ytdlp install like it does with the mpv binary but hey at least this works for now. [image: image.png]

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[raszpl]

There does exist inside smplayer.ini:

[streaming]
streaming\youtube\ytdl_bin=

but its ignored and does nothing for meEDIT: it works great, I didnt notice smplayer.ini moved to its own options subdirectory and was editing wrong file :) warning \ in the path need to be escaped so use \\