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Playing online music videos in terminal (one-liner)

Code:

pvl() { (for i in "$@"; do youtube-dl -q --max-downloads 1 --no-playlist "$i" -o - | mplayer -vo null /dev/fd/3 3<&0 </dev/tty; sleep .5; done); }

This plays video files (youtube, vimeo, etc) isolated to the terminal, without video.

I'm particularly proud of this one since it solved a lot of things I've been stumped about. Plus - it really converges the online video media and cli together.
First off, there is no downloading to a file or any conversion of files. youtube-dl downloads and sends to stdout and is immediately caught by mplayer which then dumps any video elements (-vo null). This also avoids any need for a fifo and avoids costly conversion (ffmpeg -i - -f ogg -vn -)

If you've ever piped to mplayer, you've noticed that you cannot control it. Turns out with some redirection magic (/dev/fd/3 3<&0 </dev/tty), you can!

If you're inclined and have mplayer and youtube-dl installed, try it out.

Code:

Usage:

pvl 'link1' 'link2' 'link3'

http://www.commandlinefu.com/command...os-in-terminal

If you want to use youtube-dl and mplayer then give this a try. It's
a little more versatile.

Code:

#! /usr/bin/env bash



# Youtube video-audio player and downloader. Requires youtube-dl and one

# of mplayer , mpv, ffplay



[ -d $HOME/Utube ] || mkdir $HOME/Utube

cd $HOME/Utube



PS3="

Select an option.:  "

                                        

while :; do

  clear

  options="Quit Formats Watch Listen Download"

    select opt in $options; do

      case $opt in

        Quit) clear; exit;;

                

        Formats) read -p "Paste Utube URL:  " form

          youtube-dl -F "$form"

                                      read -p "$Enter to continue.  "

                                      break ;;



        Watch) read -p "Paste Utube video URL:  " view        

                                      #youtube-dl -q -f 18 "$view" -o - | mpv -

                                      youtube-dl -q -f 18 "$view" -o - | mplayer -

                                      #youtube-dl -q -f 18 "$view" -o - | ffplay -

                                      break ;;

                        

        Listen) read -p "Paste Utube audio URL:  " aud

                                      #youtube-dl -q -f 140 "$aud" -o - | mpv -

                                      youtube-dl -q -f 140 "$aud" -o - | mplayer -

                                      #youtube-dl -q -f 140 "$aud" -o - | ffplay -

                                      break ;;



        Download) read -p "Paste Utube URL:  " dl

                                      read -p "What format number?  Ex: 0 18 22 140:  " fmat

                                      num=1

                                              until [ ! -e ut$num.* ]; do

                                                        num=$(($num + 1))

                                              done

                                      youtube-dl -q -f "$fmat" "$dl" -o ut"$num"."%(ext)s"

                                      break ;;

      esac

    done

done