Compare Chrome extensions: Watch with MPV vs Open In MPV

Stats Watch with MPV Watch with MPV Open In MPV Open In MPV
User count 481 181
Average rating 3.29 1.00
Rating count 17 1
Last updated 2018-02-07 2020-11-06
Size 79.54K 408.58K
Version 1.2.9 1.01
Short description
Open the current web stream with MPV. Open videos and audios in MPV.
Full summary

IMPORTANT: The "Read and change your data on all the websites your visit" permission is misleading. This permission is used to fetch your cookie information so mpv is able to open private/paywalled videos. If you don't believe me, look at the source code.

Watch with MPV is a chrome extension that allows you to open your current tab in MPV, assuming you have it installed. This extension works with every URL that is supported by youtube-dl.

This extension makes use of a native host. The native host is required to be installed in order for the extension to work properly. This is because of Chrome's extension restrictions.

To install the native host, simply install this extension and click on the icon in the right toolbar, and then click OK on the following popup.

I modified the IINA Chrome extension to work with MPV so I'm not required to have a background process running like what the alternatives need.

The only caveat is that you need to assign MPV to the ytdl:// url scheme.

On a Mac this can be achieved by using https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps