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youtube-dl can fetch a video via its ID, the part after the "/watch?v=<ID>" in the URL. Combined with a video player, such as vlc, mpv, mpc-hc or similar, you c
by stepvhen 11y ago
youtube-dl can fetch a video via its ID, the part after the "/watch?v=<ID>" in the URL. Combined with a video player, such as vlc, mpv, mpc-hc or similar, you can stream youtube videos without viewing from the youtube website. There are scripts available that make this less DIY, such as ones that launch your video player with youtube-dl when you load a page on youtube, though I do not have any of those on hand to show you.
- ihuman 11y agoYou can stream videos through VLC even if you don't download them. Just Select File->Open Network, and put in the url of the YouTube video.
- j_s 11y agoThe question was more about discovery than how the tool worked... I'd imagine he doesn't watch much YouTube but just uses youtube-dl when the videos are found on other sites.
- ghrifter 11y agoI watch a bit of YouTube, but I only use YouTube-dl to doownload videos I really like - like abridgements or YTPs - stuff that can easily be copyright notice'd down