On 16-11-29 at 08:35, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alarig Le Lay <ala...@swordarmor.fr> [16-11-29 08:16]: > > On Tue Nov 29 07:42:16 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Is there any way to feed the stream from youtube direktly into > > > a not blown player like mpv/mplayer or such (I would prefer > > > not to load a complete gui (vlc) with any click again and again.)? > > Yes, you can play video from youtube with mpv if you have emerged > > net-misc/youtube-dl. > yes...I know...but this implies (as far as I know): > Copying the url from FF as argument to youtube-dl, > downloading the file, and than watching it. > This was my (painful) workaround the last days. It doesn't. As long as you have mpv built with +lua it ships with the youtube-dl hook which will run youtube-dl (if installed) on any url passed to mpv, parse the json output and then play the "real" video url.
> I woyld like something like: > Click on youtube-url, a window (console) pops up > and starts <fill in something> to watch the video > directly. > > Is it possible somehow? There's probably around a bazillion addons for that. A quick search found [1] [2] [3] [4]. Though binding an alias to `mpv $(xsel -b)' and then executing that after copying a url shouldn't be that hard. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-with-mpv [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-video [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-assistant [4] https://github.com/agiz/youtube-mpv -- Simon Thelen
