Playing videos from url in mpv or celluloid

General system
1

I wonder if there is any way I could change the resolution for the videos streamed by mpv or celluloid.
Sometimes I am on a connection with data cap. If this would be possible I could save on the data consumption. I have looked a bit at man mpv but I couldn’t see anything relevant. If you know of a way to make this work I would really appreciate it.

2

You could use streamlink, or type mpv with parameters everytime.

player=mpv
default-stream=1080p60,1080p,900p60,900p,720p60,720p,best
verbose-player

then, to play the video, type streamlink url

In that case, it will try first 1080p60, you could tune it as you wish.

This config file should be in ~/.config/streamlink
name it as config

Edit: Take a look at their documentation:

2 Likes
3

Thank you so much! This sounds great!
I will look into it and report back later on.

1 Like
4

You are welcome.

One more suggestion is to create a file in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
If that directory doesn’t exist, just create it.

and include inside:

hwdec=auto
audio-channels=stereo
5

This worked perfectly!
Thanks for this and link! I will look into the config for mpv as per your suggestion as well.
I’ll let you know how things work out.

Até logo!

1 Like
6

:slight_smile:
Até logo