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Maybe have a look at these:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/aria2-integratio...

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ff2mpv/

Thanks. The first one seems to rely on the fact that aria2 can be remotely controlled. This is good, and in case of aria2 may be even the preferred way of using the combo, but it's not the substitute for the basic launching of one program from the other with some data passing.

The second one needs the "native client" which I mentioned above. It uses effing python to pass the link from the browser to the player! It's a workaround and an ugly complication. The more I use technology the more I come to despise those levels of software strata solving the problem the lower layers introduced for disputable reasons.

This one achieves the same thing without a native client: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/

(I'm the author of ff2mpv.)

Yeah, it's unfortunate that it needs the Python (or Ruby) script as a shim to MPV. But it's not an inherent requirement: the extension could execute MPV directly if MPV understood the weird length-prefixed JSON protocol that Firefox and Chrome use.

To be clear, I'm not carping at your or other extensions, it's great they still manage achieve their goals.

Thanks.

The aria2 one didn't have an update since 2019 though.

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