>Yes, I read and didn't comprehend:
"mpv url -> stream vid
youtube-dl url -> download vid
mps-youtube -> search, browse, play, download vids"
What does that mean?
how do you download videos?
Open up a terminal and write:
sudo apt-get install mpv youtube-dl
You just installed the two applications, namely 'the best video player a
human has ever made' and a tool for downloading videos from youtube and more
than a hundred other websites using flash, that is 'the most ubiquitous
malware a human has ever made'.
Now that you have the two installed, in terminal:
mpv https://youtube.com/watch?v=LldbjATAgzc
which will stream da teletubbies :P
youtube-dl https://youtube.com/watch?v=LldbjATAgzc
which will download the teletubbies vid in the highest vid quality by
default. The tool has a metric ton of --options, some of them are very
useful. To know more and learn use 'man' --> man youtube-dl. The 'man', short
for manual, is your gold, you want to take care of your gold, you want to
learn your gold :)
As far as mps-youtube the way I do it is I use python-pip. Newer versions of
it will not ask for sudo and will download the python applications in your
/home. Older versions asked for sudo (terrible practice for installing code
outside your distribution repo) unless you gave them explicitly the --user
option. I think you have the old version of it. So, the procedure is the
following -->
sudo apt install python3-pip
You installed pip, the python package installer
pip3 install --user mps-youtube
This will install mps-youtube
To upgrade mps-youtube:
pip3 install --upgrade --user mps-youtube
If you decide to go the pip way, then I recommend you also install youtube-dl
that way (and not via apt) as the version in your repo is terribly outdated..
To launch mps-youtube:
mpsyt
Now you have dem tools - may dem teletubbies fill your hard drive with
profound joy :)
