MPV error playing youtube videos on Artix Linux
Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:29:13 +0100
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After  reinstalling my  X270 with  Artix Linux  I was  getting this
error message when  launching mpv with a youtube video  url and the
video wasn't playing, for example: mpv https://youtu.be/uYL719BxyJA

MESA-INTEL: 
warning: ../mesa-25.2.7/src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:981:  

Apparently it's a problem between Mesa and Vulkan with my Intel cpu
that will be fixed one day...

My fix was to install yt-dlp: pacman -S yt-dlp
There's some magick going on between mpv, yt-dlp  and  youtube urls, 
even if you are not expressly using yt-dlp.

I  still saw  the MESA-INTEL  error  message, but  the video  plays
normally.

To hide the error message, my ~/.config/chawan/auto.mailcap has:

audio/*;           mpv - 2>/dev/null
video/*;           mpv - 2>/dev/null


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