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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
I eventually became somewhat youtube-dependent for media consumption, but I don't quite like the natural flow of youtube's algorithms' "play next" suggestions, which are probably even minimally bearable when I'm logged in.
So it can be interesting to have a shuffle of a series of chosen playlists to be played when we're doing whatever. The arguably best-ish way for doing it is to save YT playlists (the list of URLs, not the video files themselves) on disk, then do some bash/sed...
It was originally an independent development, so it relies in some aspects more on mpv.conf (to define its input pipe/fifo file), so one may want to modify it according to whatever preference regarding that.
The main difference is a gimmick to get the URL from where the cursor is hovering...
Googling a little bit about, some solutions to the same symptoms pointed to needing to install something like gstreamer-ffmpeg. But not only that's unavailable in the latest Debian testing (Stretch), but it seems it's the other way around: for me it started to work again when I deactivated something related to gstreamer on about:config.
Doing so doesn't seem to have affected anything else (namely flash videos). But I feel that now HTML5 on youtube is somewhat heavier, buy maybe it...
That would give "larger than zero" numbers when mplayer is playing (I think Debian's/current "top" syntax is a little bit different and requires "b" and "d" separated,...
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