Auto play in MPV

Automatically redirect to mpv player when playing online video.

Installation / Usage

1. install auto-play-in-mpv: pip install auto-play-in-mpv or uv tool install auto-play-in-mpv, start the server by executing apim in your terminal.
2. install tampermonkey/violentmonkey in your browser
3. install the script from greasyfork
4. just click a video from supported sites. (this script mainly works on bilibili. youtube support is not tested yet)

mpv config

Note that this is just my config example. You may need to change some settings.

If you find mpv is not playing the video, you may need to run mpv https://bilibili.com/video/xxx to test if your mpv profile is working.

Autostart server

It's better to start the websocket server automatically at startup.

• On general platforms: please use my another script user-startup-rs!
• On NixOS: Add this to your configuration.nix

  systemd.user.services.apim = {
    enable = true;
    description = "Open online video in local mpv player";
    script = "~/.local/bin/apim";
    wantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
    path = with pkgs; [
      mpv
      yt-dlp
    ];
  };
  # do not forget to add your current user to some groups
  users.users.<your_user_name> = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    extraGroups = [
      "wheel"
      "networkmanager"
      "video"
      "render"
      "audio"
    ];
  };
  

Supported sites

• bilibili (video, live)
• youtube

TODO

• auto start
• fix behavior on youtube

License

MIT