Comment by embedding-shape
8 hours ago
I've started doing:
yt-dlp https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg -o - | mpv -
And never been happier. I hope it still counts as a view for the channel/owner though, but never investigated if that's actually the case.
In most builds mpv has yt-dlp integrated, you can directly pass the URL to it.
Ay, but then I don't get to teach beginners about the unix principle and how easy it is to pipe stuff between different tools :)
Thanks for the heads up regardless, I'm sure there was others who didn't know, who learned something new! :)
> In most builds mpv has yt-dlp integrated, you can directly pass the URL to it.
Last time I was passing youtube URLs to mpv, it relied on having an executable named youtube-dl.exe somewhere visible to the mpv executable. To get it to work with yt-dlp, I had to copy and rename the yt-dlp executable.
> has yt-dlp integrated
Have they switched to supplying their own youtube downloader instead of just working with whatever you happen to have in your path?
Very unlikely, you need the browser for that
I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint.
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Good thing yt-dlp is a browser.
It's not. It runs enough JavaScript to pass the CAPTCCA (completely automated public turing test to tell computers and computers apart) challenge but it doesn't actually load the page and execute everything.