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0 pointsSir_Cmpwn10y ago0 comments

I was using youtube-dl, but no longer. Now I just pass the URL directly into mpv, which has its own youtube-dl hook.

Side note, oh boy do you need to get some Linux in your life. That's the hackiest thing I've ever seen on Windows for something that'd take minutes to implement on Linux.

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rasz_pl10y ago

That still takes time to refetch yt page and parse for mp4 link. Smplayer can do it too, but it takes ~1 second, thats ~1 second too long for me :P. If I wasnt so lazy I would find youtubecenter code responsible for this parsing, but I am, so I simply

document.getElementById("watch8-ytcenter-buttons").children[0].children[0].href

and bam, mp4 link ready in javascript for free.

Got plenty of Linux in my life (mostly embedded, for example running my DIY TV build from recycled 32' LCD panel, universal chinese lcd controller and rasPee. Yes, I like repurposing junk). Linux is how I learned to cobble up together ugliest hacks imaginable.

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