Starting a youtube video (playback) with mpv takes above 5 seconds

[geextahslex]

Starting a youtube video (playback) with mpv takes above 5 seconds

[bashonly]

No. Most of this startup time is yt-dlp decoding the nsig parameter, which is necessary for web client formats (or else their download speeds will be throttled to 30KB/s). The only alternative is the extractor-args given to you on discord.

[geextahslex]

I understand.
What does this line actually do? script-opts-append=ytdl_hook-try_ytdl_first=yes
script-opts=ytdl_hook-try_ytdl_first=yes,ytdl_hook-exclude="%.webm$|%.ts$|%.mp3$|%.m3u8$|%.m3u$|%.mkv$|%.mp4$|%.VOB$"

[bashonly]

That's an mpv argument, not a yt-dlp option. But from what I can tell, ytdl_hook-try_ytdl_first=yes tells mpv to try yt-dl/p first when given URL input (instead of trying to playback the URL with mpv directly first), and ytdl_hook-exclude tells mpv to exclude URLs ending in .webm etc from the ytdl/p hook and instead playback those URLs directly with mpv.