@sfan5 do you plan to merge this?

Maybe change brandname for youtube-dl enabled build? E.g.: "MPV - media player" (without youtube-dl) -> Google Play, "mpv-android" -> F-Droid and source only builds.

Maybe change brandname for youtube-dl enabled build? E.g.: "MPV - media player" (without youtube-dl) -> Google Play, "mpv-android" -> F-Droid and source only builds.

Why?

@sfan5 I found vlc download from Google play can play YouTube without ads (even in background mode). Maybe we can have this feature for Google play version.

What a exciting feature! Is there any plan to merge this, or, is there any work before merge this?

Looks promising. Any ETA when it will be pushed to google play?

There's a new APK linked in the first post now.
Thanks to@puchu for the settings code changes. The APK comes with Python3.10 now and supportsboth 32-bit and 64-bit ARM properly.

Given the recent push by yt-dlp to depend on a Deno runtime it's not clear at all if yt-dlp support on Android will be anywhere near viable in the future.

Deno runtime it's not clear at all if yt-dlp support on Android will be anywhere near viable in the future.

Yeah. That what I'm worry about. I don't see Deno for Android.

Given the recent push by yt-dlp to depend on a Deno runtime it's not clear at all if yt-dlp support on Android will be anywhere near viable in the future.

I don't understand much about this topic, but they said that other runtimes beyond Deno will also be supported.

Well, we couldn't expect other runtimes will be there soon. From yt-dlp side, I think all their power and resources might be focus on Deno support for sometimes (weeks, months, years).

Native Android apps (like mpv+yt-dlp, YTDlnis, Seal) could have long standing issue while waiting, hence sfan5 last post mentioning support I believe.

Edit: Reminder. Deno is for Youtube specifically. For other sites, yt-dlp still work, hopefully.

Well, we couldn't expect other runtimes will be there soon. From yt-dlp side, I think all their power and resources might be focus on Deno support for sometimes (weeks, months, years).

yt-dlp/yt-dlp#14404 (comment)

Thelinked pull request already supports Node and Bun in addition to Deno.

This was not advertised in the original announcement post because A.) Deno is the safest option & we'd prefer less-technically-inclined yt-dlp users to stick with that, B.) Deno will be used by default while using Node/Bun will require user intervention (i.e. passing a CLI argument), and C.) yt-dlp may only be able to support recent versions of Node and Bun (see question 10 below).

Deno itself is not a hard requirement, just a compatible javascript runtime, node.js is supported, it's not ideal. but it should be possible with a small patch to make it the default so it will just work, bundling and getting node.js in mpv will likely bloat it quite a bit, but better then nothing.

@sfan5 In order to future proof python a little bit, I changed it to use python3.12. Python3.10 is only available on older LTS versions of Ubuntu.

syphyr@6bb1642

Note: I had to hack the configure script to manually disable the grp module because simply disabling it in Modules/Setup did not work as expected.

Given the recent push by yt-dlp to depend on a Deno runtime it's not clear at all if yt-dlp support on Android will be anywhere near viable in the future.

Perhaps a better approach would be to let mpv-android interact with yt-dlp in termux, using some kind of IPC with a secret token. This would allow users to install any required dependencies in termux rather than packaging them into an apk.

Deno does work in termux

denoland/deno#19759

There's a new APK linked in the first post now. Thanks to@puchu for the settings code changes. The APK comes with Python3.10 now and supportsboth 32-bit and 64-bit ARM properly.

Given the recent push by yt-dlp to depend on a Deno runtime it's not clear at all if yt-dlp support on Android will be anywhere near viable in the future.

Pardon me if I am asking too much,
I am just a user who doesn't understand technical difficulties.
I am facing some issues with the latest APK .
I haven't faced such an issue in the 2024 apk, previous size was under 40MB this APK over 50MB .
2024 APK Read my config properly this new APK has some issues read my config properly.
It's stuck for long time on SW then it's switching to Hw+ and play.
This stuck and switching time almost five times compared to 2024 apk.
I know python and ytdl slow but new version much slower.
May you just updatethe 2024 apk version python to the latest 3.13, even if youtube not work due to deno i want to use it for other sites as long as ytdlp function.

Edit - some non youtube site delaying 100+ sec but it's ytdlp issue

That is very vague and I can't help you.

When I look at yt-dlp on linux, it says it is using the following optional libraries:

 Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotlicffi-1.1.0.0, certifi-2025.10.05, curl_cffi-0.13.0, mutagen-1.47.0, pyxattr-0.8.1, requests-2.32.5, secretstorage-3.4.0, sqlite3-3.22.0, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1

Since these are missing from mpv-android's yt-dlp, do you think this will impact its performance? Should these libs also be added for android?

Another suggestion I have is to add configurable proxy settings for ytdlp.

Should these libs also be added for android?

Maybe. In the easiest case mpv-android could just call pip to install these, but that's another thing that will literally become impossible once SDK 28 support is a concern.

Another suggestion I have is to add configurable proxy settings for ytdlp.

Likehttp_proxy/https_proxy? Or what do people usually use?

Socks5 is preferable