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Re:Firefox 70 by Angeo34 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:31PM (#21330516)
Maybe just don't watch videos inside your Browser. You know there's youtube-dl+mpv?
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Re:Firefox 70 by w1nst0nsm1th on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:41AM (#21331430)
iina can ply youtube stream without pre-downloading them. You have also Picture in Picture following you on all desktop.

iina is open source and have a lot of codec available.

I don't know if it change something on energy consumption, though.

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Re:Firefox 70 by helb on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:03AM (#21332288)
I don't know what iina is, but youtube-dl + mpv mentioned by Angeo34 does exactly that (stream videos without pre-downloading them). Youtube-dl just gets the stream URL and mpv plays it. And it's easy to use, just:

    mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
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