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which kinda sucks, as this requires downloading the entire video before you can watch, so you cannot decide _not_ to watch it quickly (it takes at least the tim
by chii 3y ago
which kinda sucks, as this requires downloading the entire video before you can watch, so you cannot decide _not_ to watch it quickly (it takes at least the time to download, which, if the video is long, might take a while).
- this_machine 3y agoNot necessarily. A while ago, I found the need to stream directly from yt-dlp instead of downloading full videos[1]. You can have yt-dlp write to stdout and pipe that stream into your player of choice. [1] "Using Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback": https://alexdelorenzo.dev/linux/2020/03/14/pipes https://alexdelorenzo.dev/linux/2020/03/14/pipes
- thaumasiotes 3y agompv will play youtube videos given the URL if it can see a youtube-dl executable.
- skeletonjelly 3y agoVLC can stream Youtube can't it?
- thot_experiment 3y agooh sure, you can stream too if you want but I generally queue up a lot of videos so the latency doesn't bother me, and I appreciate the lack of latency when seeking I also really like having the resultant archive.