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by rasz_pl 3989 days ago
holy crap that is convoluted

I simply use mplayer and javascript oneliner extracting direct mp4 link from YouTubeCenter plugin = streaming video in mplayer without downloading.

1 comments

Q: "... why aren't you using youtube-dl?"

A: "holy crap that is convuluted"

I do not use Python nor a Javascript-enabled web browser to download video.

Both are big, convoluted, slow(!) and unnecessary.

But I do agree with using mplayer for playback.