Making http-proxy option also set same proxy for yt-dl?

[msva]

Hi!

I think, it can be good idea to automatically set ytdl-raw-option "proxy" to same value that user passed to http-proxy option (whether it be on command line or in config).

Now, if you want to get it to work properly (for example, in case of banned youtube), you need to pass both:

$ mpv --http-proxy='http://....' --ytdl-raw-options=proxy="http://...." https://youtu.be/URL

(either of them missing, leads to different errors)

I think, making auto-passing will greatly increase UX.

But I'm not sure if I should post it as issue, so I posting this as idea on discussions.

How do you think?

[verygoodlee]

Here's a workaround via auto-profiles

[ytdl_proxy]
profile-cond=http_proxy
input-commands=no-osd change-list ytdl-raw-options append proxy=${http-proxy}

[msva]

Thanks!
By the way, I wanted to add a bit more logic, and found some issue.
I wanted to make something like:

• if --http-proxy is set on command line, use it's value,
• if not — use the value from config
• in either case set http-proxy value to yt-dlp options

I tried this:

[ytdl_proxy]
profile-cond=http_proxy
input-commands=no-osd change-list ytdl-raw-options append proxy=${http-proxy}

[proxy_if_youtube]
profile-cond=path:find('youtu%.?be')
http-proxy=<proxy_addr>

but with no luck.

Then I made this in addition to that two sections (and changed them to don't overlap conditions):

[proxy_youtube_default]
profile-cond=path:find('youtu%.?be') and not http_proxy:find(".")
http-proxy=<proxy_addr>
input-commands=no-osd change-list ytdl-raw-options append proxy=${http-proxy}

but it still didn't wantt to work.
And when I replaced ${http-proxy} here to hardcoded proxy value — it works.

It is pretty sad, that it required to hardcode tha address, but at least it works.

[msva]

If anybody interested, here is what I finally ended up with that thing:

[proxy_youtube_default]
profile-cond=not http_proxy:match[[.]] and (path or [[]]):match[[youtu%.?be]]                                                                                                                                                                                      
http-proxy=<addr>

[ytdl_proxy]
profile-cond=http_proxy:match[[.]] and (path or [[]]):match[[youtu%.?be]]
input-commands=no-osd change-list ytdl-raw-options append proxy=${http-proxy}