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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.
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Collection of random small tricks

Posted 09-26-2015 at 08:40 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 01-16-2024 at 08:28 PM by the dsc (adding more trickery)
☻☻☻ Pipeing youtube-dl output to a given player (and having it as a mini-script)

Code:
youtube-dl -f ${2:-5} $1 -q -o - | mpv -
The first parameter is the youtube url, for a single video, and the second, optional, the quality code, like "best", "worst", or a given number. The default there (5) is the 240p flv.

Just "mpv youtube-URL" was supposed to work, but isn't working right now for me. It says the youtube-dl version is old,...
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