Q: "... why aren't you using youtube-dl?" A: "holy crap that is convuluted" I do not use Python nor a Javascript-enabled web browser to download video. Both

Q: "... why aren't you using youtube-dl?" A: "holy crap that is convuluted" I do not use Python nor a Javascript-enabled web browser to download video. Both are big, convoluted, slow(!) and unnecessary. But I do agree with using mplayer for playback.