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If you use your browser for media consumption, this is a great shell addition (add to ~/.bashrc): function streamer() { youtube-dl -o - "$1" | vlc - }

If you use your browser for media consumption, this is a great shell addition (add to ~/.bashrc): function streamer() { youtube-dl -o - "$1" | vlc - } Then: $ streamer <just about any media url> Of course you need youtube-dl and vlc

LukeShu 7y ago
A while back I migrated from VLC to `mpv`. I much later learned from an HN comment that `mpv` automatically calls `youtube-dl` if it's installed; you can run $ mpv <just about any media url> without setting up any aliases or functions or mucking with calling youtube-dl yourself.
- leetbulb 7y ago
  Very nice, I will give this a try!
- ScottFree 7y ago
  Thanks for suggesting mpv! I had never heard of it, but I'm not too happy with VLC or smplayer on MacOS so I gave it a shot. It's fantastic. Fast, responsive and it plays everything I've thrown at it.
  - shadowoflight 7y ago
    To anyone on MacOS who wants the efficiency of mpv with a nice GUI: IINA [1] is a slick video player for Mac, with minimal UI, web browser plugins, and gesture-based controls, and it's FOSS with mpv and youtube-dl on the backend. [1]: https://iina.io/ https://iina.io/
    - ScottFree 7y ago
      I gave IINA a shot. It has a nicer UI, but it's not nearly as fast or responsive as mpv. No sale.
      - shadowoflight 7y ago
        Interesting. I’ve found it to be significantly more responsive than VLC while being much more consistent with the Mac UI, but to each their own!
- majewsky 7y ago
  I have this in my zshrc to save the trouble of pasting URLs manually: mpv() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then command mpv "$(xsel -b)" else env mpv "$@" fi }
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Macha 7y ago
VLC is natively capable of playing YouTube videos. $ vlc <URL of YouTube video> Or just copy the URL and hit Ctrl-V at the main screen of the UI on Windows/Linux
- leetbulb 7y ago
  But what if you want more than just YouTube? :) https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html Very useful for even strange sites like my local news station that uses a broken Flash media player.
asdff 7y ago
Youtube also has rss feeds you can use in fun ways to fetch your content automatically.
_def 7y ago
You can combine it with something like xclip and a desktop starter. So all you have to do is to copy the URL and click the icon. A browser extension would be even fancier, but I don't think that would work so easy permission wise :)

LukeShu 7y ago

A while back I migrated from VLC to `mpv`. I much later learned from an HN comment that `mpv` automatically calls `youtube-dl` if it's installed; you can run $ mpv <just about any media url> without setting up any aliases or functions or mucking with calling youtube-dl yourself.

leetbulb 7y ago
Very nice, I will give this a try!
ScottFree 7y ago
Thanks for suggesting mpv! I had never heard of it, but I'm not too happy with VLC or smplayer on MacOS so I gave it a shot. It's fantastic. Fast, responsive and it plays everything I've thrown at it.
- shadowoflight 7y ago
  To anyone on MacOS who wants the efficiency of mpv with a nice GUI: IINA [1] is a slick video player for Mac, with minimal UI, web browser plugins, and gesture-based controls, and it's FOSS with mpv and youtube-dl on the backend. [1]: https://iina.io/ https://iina.io/
  - ScottFree 7y ago
    I gave IINA a shot. It has a nicer UI, but it's not nearly as fast or responsive as mpv. No sale.
    - shadowoflight 7y ago
      Interesting. I’ve found it to be significantly more responsive than VLC while being much more consistent with the Mac UI, but to each their own!
majewsky 7y ago
I have this in my zshrc to save the trouble of pasting URLs manually: mpv() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then command mpv "$(xsel -b)" else env mpv "$@" fi }

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Macha 7y ago

VLC is natively capable of playing YouTube videos. $ vlc <URL of YouTube video> Or just copy the URL and hit Ctrl-V at the main screen of the UI on Windows/Linux

leetbulb 7y ago
But what if you want more than just YouTube? :) https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html Very useful for even strange sites like my local news station that uses a broken Flash media player.

asdff 7y ago

Youtube also has rss feeds you can use in fun ways to fetch your content automatically.

_def 7y ago

You can combine it with something like xclip and a desktop starter. So all you have to do is to copy the URL and click the icon. A browser extension would be even fancier, but I don't think that would work so easy permission wise :)