Quality-menu doesn't make use of --cookies-from-browser

[GunGunGun]

For Bilibili.tv, the only way to get 1080p even higher is to pass cookies from web browser (with an account logging in) to MPV, it works with MPV and I got 1080p+:

But somehow, quality-menu doesn't show 1080p+:

Is threre a way to force quality-menu to use --cookies-from-browser for consistency ?

[christoph-heinrich]

How are you passing that option? --ytdl-raw-options=cookies-from-browser= should definitely work. You can check how ytdl gets called in the verbose log (e.g. --log-file=log.txt), there should be a line calling ytdl with command: ....

It's possible that the formats are not shown because it's not clear if those formats are video or audio formats. To make sure they aren't hidden, try the option include_unknown=yes.

[GunGunGun]

How are you passing that option? --ytdl-raw-options=cookies-from-browser= should definitely work. You can check how ytdl gets called in the verbose log (e.g. --log-file=log.txt), there should be a line calling ytdl with command: ....

It's possible that the formats are not shown because it's not clear if those formats are video or audio formats. To make sure they aren't hidden, try the option include_unknown=yes.

I use this cmd mpv https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ot411y7Q3/ --ytdl-raw-options-append=cookies-from-browser=firefox:D:\PB\Data\profilet

And I do have include_unknown=yes

The result is still the same with mpv https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ot411y7Q3/ --ytdl-raw-options-append=cookies-from-browser=firefox:D:\PB\Data\profilet --log-file=qualitymenu.txt

Attached my log file: qualitymenu.txt

So it doesn't work somehow.

The command is:

[ 10.534][v][quality_menu] calling youtube-dl with command: yt-dlp --no-warnings --no-playlist -J https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ot411y7Q3/ --no-match-filter [ 10.534][d][quality_menu] Running: yt-dlp --no-warnings --no-playlist -J https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ot411y7Q3/ --no-match-filter

Update:

It works if I modify quality-menu.lua: local command = { ytdl.path, "--no-warnings", "--no-playlist", "-J", "--cookies-from-browser", "firefox:D:\\PB\\Data\\profilet", url }

But I guess this is too extreme for end-use, I would prefer to have an option to force cookies in quality-menu.conf

[christoph-heinrich]

You're using an outdated version of quality-menu, the last release gained the feature to pass ytdl-raw-options to ytdl.

[GunGunGun]

You're using an outdated version of quality-menu, the last release gained the feature to pass ytdl-raw-options to ytdl.

Ah, my bad, yeah I just checked my version is outdated: -- quality-menu 3.1.1 - 2023-Feb-04

This "not issue" is now solved, thanks!