mpv combined with yt-dlp works quite nicely too, just paste the URL as an argument to mpv and it handles downloading on its own. Primary issue is that yt-dlp is

mpv combined with yt-dlp works quite nicely too, just paste the URL as an argument to mpv and it handles downloading on its own. Primary issue is that yt-dlp is highly sensitive to shadow API changes so rolling release is needed for it to be useful, though this can still be done with custom repositories on distros outside of e.g. Arch.