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    • Sunrosa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Yeah yt-dlp has been my strat this whole time anyway. Also Piped and Invidious get the job done when i’m too lazy to type in one short command for every video I watch.

      Also, specifying format with yt-dlp is unnecessary (“-f 22”) if you have ffmpeg installed iirc because it automatically selects the highest quality, thus shortening the command even further.

        • Sunrosa@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          8 months ago

          Higher resolution videos actually have better bitrates on youtube. Like if you select 4k even if your monitor is just 1080p, the video will look much better.

            • Sunrosa@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              All the more reason just to use yt-dlp. I know it takes a tiny bit of time to set up, but it’s well worth it. I’m able to download 20-minute videos that would have otherwise buffered in less than a minute. I can simultaneously queue up a bunch of videos, and watch them with zero stuttering.

      • jack@monero.townEnglish
        42·
        8 months ago

        You can also put “alias y=yt-dlp” in your ~/.bashrc to minimize it to “y”. Or set up a keyboard shortcut to a script that executes the command with your clipboard content.

        Or do the same with “mpv” instead of “yt-dlp” to watch the video stream directly without downloading.