Show youtube titles instead of url in playlist

[kilisio]

I am using https://github.com/cvzi/mpv-youtube-upnext plugin to make mpv autoplay youtube videos. When I open the playlist in uosc to view auto added titles, it lists urls and not the titles of the videos. I would like it to show the titles like how https://github.com/jonniek/mpv-playlistmanager plugin does.

[christoph-heinrich]

uosc already shows the title if available by default.
What do you expect we should do, make a request to YouTube for each playlist entry to get the title? I can already tell you that's never going to happen.

[tomasklaen]

There was already #395 regarding this, and I believe this was discussed somewhere else as well, but I'll reiterate the state of this feature here:

When mpv provides a title to a playlist entry, we display it. If you see urls, it means those titles are not available, and we'd have to retrieve them by making an http request to youtube for every url, which for big playlists would turn uosc users into youtube ddosing machines. That's how the scripts you linked work if I'm not mistaken, and I don't like it to be honest.

The only realistic approach would be a url->title resolving server similar to thumbfast, where we could ask it for titles to urls currently on screen, and it would retrieve it and cache the results. I'd like this as well, unfortunately I don't have much development time to donate these days, so this is in limbo.

[cvzi]

The cvzi/mpv-youtube-upnext script has the title, but I don't know how to add the title to the playlist entry

[christoph-heinrich]

I don't know how to add the title to the playlist entry

But I do 😉

[cvzi]

I thought you would know, thanks!

[kilisio]

It works, thanks

[tomasklaen]

Keep the issue open as this is something I'd like to have in uosc one day.

[mrfragger]

no longer have to use in mpv.conf using nightly builds
reset-on-next-file=force-media-title

If you didn't with mpv 0.38 the youtube playlists wouldn't show their titles (IIRC). Downside was iptv playlists wouldn't show titles.

Now with nightly builds the
--osd-playlist-entry=<title|filename|both>

Whether to display the media title, filename, or both. If the media-title is not available, it will display only the filename.

Default: title.

shows youtube playlists titles and iptv titles....but yes still elusive media-title in osd is a tough one