mpv not starting about mpv-youtube-dl-binding HOT 4 CLOSED

Have you set your Additional player parameters to this: --ytdl-format=best
Or try this in your terminal: $ mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx_vWkv50uk --ytdl-format=best

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mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx_vWkv50uk --ytdl-format=best

Works fine. Setting the additional parameters to --ytdl-format=best didn't change anything.

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Feel free to close this "issue".

I fiddled around a bit and let the addon call a shell script that I wrote which dumps some stuff into a log file. That's the script here:
LOG=~/notmpv.log
echo "$*" > $LOG
echo "PATH = $PATH" >> $LOG
mpv $* >> $LOG

One of the messages I got was [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl not found, not executable, or broken. I don't have youtube-dl installed system wide, but in ~/bin, which is added to the $PATH in my .bashrc. When I'm on the terminal the path is fine. For some weird reason it is not when calling the script (and thus also not when pressing the button in Firefox). So the problem is absolutely not in your excellent addon but somewhere either in Firefox, Gnome or whereever.

Regards

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In case anyone else has this problem: I figured out what is going on. Apparently GNOME 3 doesn't actually source the rc file of the login shell (not bashrc, not bash_login, not bash_profile).

The PATH needs to be set in ~/.profile for GNOME 3 to actually read and apply it.

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