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zaruvi ◴[15 Mar 25 17:28 UTC] No.43373920[source]▶
As a user of a Firefox-based browser, YouTube's performance really is hit or miss. Sometimes it's ok, other times it's barely useable.

These days I simply queue up videos in mpv. It is much lighter on the resources, and also provides a nice cache that makes seeking through videos a breeze. I can open a link straight in mpv using a very nice system[1]. Once I have an mpv instance open I simply drag links on top of it to enqueue them. (shift+drag if you haven't set the following option in your config: drag-and-drop=append)

It works so well I find myself doing it for other online sources of videos too (e.g. Twitter/X, local TV websites, ...)

[1]: https://github.com/Baldomo/open-in-mpv

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1. folmar ◴[15 Mar 25 19:03 UTC] No.43374499[source]▶
I use h264ify plugin and didn't see performance issues for playback. The UI depends on test group you go into, but only the first load is really terrible.