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Hi,

Checking out Smplayer 14.9.0 svn r6686 with mpv as backend. It has been working great. Thanks for the great work.

I have encountered some videos (not on Youtube) that I can download with youtube-dl and stream directly with mpv, but not with Smplayer using mpv as backend and the option '--ytdl-format=bestvideo+bestaudio' in Preferences > Advanced > Options for Mplayer/Mpv. The videos stream if the ytdl option is removed.

For example http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fc1m ... rauss_tech

From Smplayer's log:

/home/bee/bin/mpv --no-config --no-quiet --terminal --no-msg-color --slave-broken --no-fs --vd-lavc-threads=4 --hwdec=vaapi --sub-auto=fuzzy --vo=vaapi --ao=pulse --stop-screensaver --no-input-default-bindings --input-x11-keyboard=no --no-input-cursor --cursor-autohide=no --no-keepaspect --wid=71303219 --monitorpixelaspect=1 --osd-scale=1 --sub-ass --embeddedfonts --ass-line-spacing=0 --sub-scale=1 --ass-styles=/home/bee/.config/smplayer/styles.ass --sub-codepage=utf8:ISO-8859-1 --sub-pos=100 --volume=100 --cache=2048 --osd-level=0 --screenshot-template=cap_%F_%p_%02n --audio-channels=2 --af-add=scaletempo --af-add=equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 --softvol=yes --softvol-max=300 --ytdl --ytdl-format=bestvideo+bestaudio --term-playing-msg=MPV_VERSION=${=mpv-version:}
INFO_VIDEO_WIDTH=${=width}
INFO_VIDEO_HEIGHT=${=height}
INFO_VIDEO_ASPECT=${=video-aspect}
INFO_VIDEO_FPS=${=fps}
INFO_VIDEO_BITRATE=${=video-bitrate}
INFO_VIDEO_FORMAT=${=video-format}
INFO_VIDEO_CODEC=${=video-codec}
INFO_AUDIO_BITRATE=${=audio-bitrate}
INFO_AUDIO_FORMAT=${=audio-format}
INFO_AUDIO_CODEC=${=audio-codec}
INFO_AUDIO_RATE=${=audio-samplerate}
INFO_AUDIO_NCH=${=audio-channels}
INFO_LENGTH=${=length}
INFO_DEMUXER=${=demuxer}
INFO_TITLES=${=disc-titles}
INFO_CHAPTERS=${=chapters}
INFO_TRACKS_COUNT=${=track-list/count}
METADATA_TITLE=${metadata/by-key/title:}
METADATA_ARTIST=${metadata/by-key/artist:}
METADATA_ALBUM=${metadata/by-key/album:}
METADATA_GENRE=${metadata/by-key/genre:}
METADATA_DATE=${metadata/by-key/date:}
METADATA_TRACK=${metadata/by-key/track:}
METADATA_COPYRIGHT=${metadata/by-key/copyright:}
INFO_MEDIA_TITLE=${=media-title:}
--term-status-msg=STATUS: ${=time-pos} / ${=length:0} P: ${=pause} B: ${=paused-for-cache} I: ${=core-idle} http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fc1m ... rauss_tech

--slave-broken is deprecated (see manpage).
[input_file] Client connected
Playing: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fc1m ... rauss_tech
[ytdl_hook] WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles
[ytdl_hook] ERROR: requested format not available
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed, trying to play URL directly ...
Failed to recognize file format.
Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

It seems bestvideo+bestaudio doesn't work with dailymotion. You can use "best" with dailymotion, but "best" only gives the 720p video with youtube.

Actually, it seems that bestvideo+bestaudio works only on Youtube but nothing else.

Great!