Biligrab-Danmaku2ASS

Play videos on Bilibili.com with MPV and Danmaku2ASS

End-of-life notice

Note: This project is not maintained anymore, and is not guaranteed to work. I will not add new features in predictable future. For any need of improving or fixing, please send me a pull request for me to merge your code in. Thank you for your long-time support.

Pull Request

Requirements

Python at least version 3.0
mpv Media Player, a fork of MPlayer with features
Biligrab-Danmaku2ASS requires
FFmpeg with ffprobe installed. Do not use Libav.
Danmaku2ASS, automatically installed

Note that Libav does not work. See why FFmpeg is preferred.

Example

./bilidan.py http://www.bilibili.com/video/av899574/
./bilidan.py http://www.bilibili.com/video/av314/     # High density comments!
./bilidan.py http://www.bilibili.com/video/av332732/index_7.html # Extreme density!
./bilidan.py http://www.bilibili.com/video/av297197/  # Even Toukome (advanced comments)!

Use option --source overseas if your are outside China. And --source html5 to use the the experimental HTML5 API. Use --fakeip if you can't get valid media URLs due to ip restrictions.

Why Biligrab-Danmaku2ASS?

Bilibili uses a Flash-based video player. Flash is unavailable since
Chromium 35 to Linux users.
Chrome Pepper Flash has a font-related bug on Linux, which causes the whole
page crash when Flash tries to render certain CJK fonts so that you have no
chance to switch to another font. This caused Bilibili Flash player unusable
to Google Chrome users on Linux.
Mozilla Firefox users on Linux never receives a newer Flash player than
11.2 from Adobe. It is certain that Adobe has abandoned Flash.
Flash consumes too much energy. Flash causes a burning laptop.
Experiments show that Danmaku2ASS renders a lot faster than the native
Bilibili player and even similar software such as
ABPlayerHTML5. Thanks to libass,
Danmaku2ASS has passed a
extreme density test at
60 fps on a Intel Core i5 laptop.

Tips

Use key V to switch comment visibility.
Some videos require logging in your account. Import your Cookie at bilibili.tv
with --cookie option.
If you have difficulties connecting to video server, try --overseas.
If your computer is not fast enough, try --mpvflags '--framedrop yes'.
Use --d2aflags 'duration_marquee=5' to set comment flow speed.
Use --d2aflags 'text_opacity=0.8' to set comment opacity.
Try to fast forward or rewind when streaming is stuck, or to tweak cache
parameters of mpv.
For issue related to URL parsing (especially the experimental HTML5 API),
please report directly to Biligrab, the upstream parser:
https://github.com/cnbeining/Biligrab/issues

License

Like the original Biligrab, Biligrab-Danmaku2ASS is licensed under MIT license as well. This program is provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.