mpv cannot play youtube video

[caikechao]

I heard that mpv can play youtube video by passing the url directly to mpv. So I tried but got no luck.

My system information

OS: Arch Linux 
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.4.5-1-ARCH
Resolution: 3840x1080
DE: Gnome 
WM: GNOME Shell

The mpv version

mpv 0.16.0 (C) 2000-2016 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on Mon Feb 29 16:27:06 CET 2016
ffmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       55.17.103
   libavcodec      57.24.102
   libavformat     57.25.100
   libswscale      4.0.100
   libavfilter     6.31.100
   libswresample   2.0.101
ffmpeg version: 3.0

When I try to open a youtube test video with mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=C0DPdy98e4c in my terminal, I got the following out put:

Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c
[ffmpeg] httpproxy: Protocol not on whitelist 'http,https,tls,rtp,tcp,udp,crypto'!
Failed to open https://r2---sn-i3beln7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=0b40cf772f7c7b87&itag=141&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31&mn=sn-i3beln7k&pl=18&mv=m&ms=au&nh=IgpwcjAxLmhrZzA4KgkxMjcuMC4wLjE&ratebypass=yes&mime=audio/mp4&gir=yes&clen=561998&lmt=1407412024362085&dur=17.600&signature=391C391F81E808699FBE31C4314C9BEBC7062326.51EC669545766E9F2D79E61CF8379D00D759F28B&mt=1457833545&upn=6NPrl28q0WE&key=dg_yt0&sver=3&fexp=9412859,9416126,9418403,9420452,9422596,9423488,9423661,9423662,9424581,9424823,9425396,9427705,9428702,9429821,9430829,9431118&ip=137.189.90.217&ipbits=0&expire=1457855267&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,mn,pl,mv,ms,nh,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur.
Can not open external file https://r2---sn-i3beln7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=0b40cf772f7c7b87&itag=141&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31&mn=sn-i3beln7k&pl=18&mv=m&ms=au&nh=IgpwcjAxLmhrZzA4KgkxMjcuMC4wLjE&ratebypass=yes&mime=audio/mp4&gir=yes&clen=561998&lmt=1407412024362085&dur=17.600&signature=391C391F81E808699FBE31C4314C9BEBC7062326.51EC669545766E9F2D79E61CF8379D00D759F28B&mt=1457833545&upn=6NPrl28q0WE&key=dg_yt0&sver=3&fexp=9412859,9416126,9418403,9420452,9422596,9423488,9423661,9423662,9424581,9424823,9425396,9427705,9428702,9429821,9430829,9431118&ip=137.189.90.217&ipbits=0&expire=1457855267&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,mn,pl,mv,ms,nh,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur.
[ffmpeg] httpproxy: Protocol not on whitelist 'http,https,tls,rtp,tcp,udp,crypto'!
Failed to open https://r2---sn-i3beln7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=0b40cf772f7c7b87&itag=133&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mm=31&mn=sn-i3beln7k&pl=18&mv=m&ms=au&nh=IgpwcjAxLmhrZzA4KgkxMjcuMC4wLjE&ratebypass=yes&mime=video/mp4&gir=yes&clen=503705&lmt=1407412011429135&dur=16.521&signature=574BE0F66981BA2CB7B6D83220FEE5DE88C2858C.76DDB444894740D0A9072BC82BEB6CCC0E2006DD&mt=1457833545&upn=6NPrl28q0WE&key=dg_yt0&sver=3&fexp=9412859,9416126,9418403,9420452,9422596,9423488,9423661,9423662,9424581,9424823,9425396,9427705,9428702,9429821,9430829,9431118&ip=137.189.90.217&ipbits=0&expire=1457855267&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,mm,mn,pl,mv,ms,nh,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur.

Is this a bug of mpv or ffmpeg? Is this error related to my proxy setting?

Thanks very much!

[wiiaboo]

Try adding --demuxer-lavf-o=protocol_whitelist=[http,https,tls,rtp,tcp,udp,crypto,httpproxy] to mpv options.

[caikechao]

@wiiaboo Thanks for your response. But I got the same error.

mpv --demuxer-lavf-o=protocol_whitelist=[http,https,tls,rtp,tcp,udp,crypto,httpproxy] https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=C0DPdy98e4c

Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0DPdy98e4c
[ffmpeg] httpproxy: Protocol not on whitelist 'http,https,tls,rtp,tcp,udp,crypto'!
Failed to open https://r2---sn-i3beln7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=0b40cf772f7c7b87&itag=141&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&nh=IgpwcjAxLmhrZzA4KgkxMjcuMC4wLjE&mm=31&mn=sn-i3beln7k&mv=m&ms=au&pl=18&ratebypass=yes&mime=audio/mp4&gir=yes&clen=561998&lmt=1407412024362085&dur=17.600&fexp=9405964,9416126,9420452,9422596,9423661,9423662,9425283,9425945,9426524,9426788,9426942,9427678,9428222,9428771,9429254,9429808&key=dg_yt0&signature=7D060D90B55CAFE974CDCA06CF9F65C048624F33.47A6F65DC3D11FEEE95E201042646DB9FA0C8946&mt=1457838777&upn=l--fs1RL6VI&sver=3&ip=137.189.90.217&ipbits=0&expire=1457860434&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,nh,mm,mn,mv,ms,pl,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur.
Can not open external file https://r2---sn-i3beln7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=0b40cf772f7c7b87&itag=141&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&nh=IgpwcjAxLmhrZzA4KgkxMjcuMC4wLjE&mm=31&mn=sn-i3beln7k&mv=m&ms=au&pl=18&ratebypass=yes&mime=audio/mp4&gir=yes&clen=561998&lmt=1407412024362085&dur=17.600&fexp=9405964,9416126,9420452,9422596,9423661,9423662,9425283,9425945,9426524,9426788,9426942,9427678,9428222,9428771,9429254,9429808&key=dg_yt0&signature=7D060D90B55CAFE974CDCA06CF9F65C048624F33.47A6F65DC3D11FEEE95E201042646DB9FA0C8946&mt=1457838777&upn=l--fs1RL6VI&sver=3&ip=137.189.90.217&ipbits=0&expire=1457860434&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,nh,mm,mn,mv,ms,pl,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur.
[ffmpeg] httpproxy: Protocol not on whitelist 'http,https,tls,rtp,tcp,udp,crypto'!
Failed to open https://r2---sn-i3beln7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=0b40cf772f7c7b87&itag=133&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&nh=IgpwcjAxLmhrZzA4KgkxMjcuMC4wLjE&mm=31&mn=sn-i3beln7k&mv=m&ms=au&pl=18&ratebypass=yes&mime=video/mp4&gir=yes&clen=503705&lmt=1407412011429135&dur=16.521&fexp=9405964,9416126,9420452,9422596,9423661,9423662,9425283,9425945,9426524,9426788,9426942,9427678,9428222,9428771,9429254,9429808&key=dg_yt0&signature=624B1AE448AF6E59720D61FF4DD91C8ED44FAA61.429A99AE6DBAB68769F48C833140DEC5CB04B820&mt=1457838777&upn=l--fs1RL6VI&sver=3&ip=137.189.90.217&ipbits=0&expire=1457860434&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,nh,mm,mn,mv,ms,pl,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur.


Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

Just now, I tried VLC Player with vlc https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=C0DPdy98e4c. VLC works. But I prefer mpv to VLC ...

[wiiaboo]

Probably create an issue in FFmpeg's tracker about adding httproxy to the default whitelist.

[caikechao]

@wiiaboo 👍 I just described my problem and sent an email to the ffmpeg-user mailing list. Hope this problem can be solved soon.

[Hrxn]

youtube-dl version?

[caikechao]

@Hrxn Thanks for your response. I just checked the youtube-dl version with:

youtube-dl -v

The output is as follows:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.02.22
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Linux-4.4.5-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0, ffprobe 3.0, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {'https': 'http://proxy.anonymous.org:8000/', 'ftp': 'http://proxy.annoymous.org:8000/', 'all': 'socks://socks.anonymous.org:1080/', 'no': '127.0.0.1,localhost,127.0.0.0/8,anonymous.org', 'rsync': 'http://proxy.anonymous:8000/', 'http': 'http://proxy.anonymous.org:8000/'}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

(My proxy addresses are anonymized. ) If you need any other information, please let me know. 😃

[caikechao]

This was indeed a bug of ffmpeg. I added httpproxy to the default http whitelist (see this commit), compiled the source code and installed my own version of ffmpeg. Everything works normally now.

Thank you all!

[Hrxn]

Good news..
Glad that it could be resolved quickly!

[ghost]

This was just fixed in ffmpeg git master.