Compare Chrome extensions: Watch with MPV vs Play with MPV

Stats Watch with MPV Watch with MPV Play with MPV Play with MPV
User count 481 5,000+
Average rating 3.29 4.32
Rating count 17 25
Last updated 2018-02-07 2020-05-01
Size 79.54K 22.27K
Version 1.2.9 0.1.0
Short description
Open the current web stream with MPV. Sends videos in pages like youtube to an external MPV player
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.

Chrome extension and python server that allows you to play videos in webpages with MPV instead. Right-click links and pages to play videos in MPV. (Or Ctrl+Space) Works on nearly every website thanks to youtube-dl.

Requires several dependencies, see website for more info.

  1. Install MPV
  2. Install Python 2 or 3 and pip
  3. Install this chrome extension
  4. Install server: pip install git+git://github.com/thann/play-with-mpv --user
  5. Run server: play-with-mpv from the terminal or use linux shortcut
  6. (optional) Autostart on linux: cp ~/.local/share/applications/thann.play-with-mpv.desktop ~/.config/autostart/