YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month

Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by Hamuko on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @02:50AM (#22682513)

    youtube-dl -f bestaudio https://youtu.be/YT0k99hCY5I

Or if you want to listen to it straight away

    mpv --ytdl-format=bestaudio https://youtu.be/YT0k99hCY5I

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Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by Zhyl on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @07:48AM (#22683683)

if you want to search for a song:

    mpv --ytdl-format=bestaudio 'ytdl://ytsearch1:John Butler Trio Ocean'

As a function:

    !#/bin/bash

    yt(){
        mpv --ytdl-format=bestaudio "ytdl://ytsearch1:$*"
    }

Edit: as per comment below, swapped '--no-video' for '--ytdl-format=bestaudio'

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Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by Hamuko on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @07:58AM (#22683732)

--no-video is not relevant to this conversation since it still fetches the video stream.

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Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by Zhyl on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @08:23AM (#22683869)

Interesting, I was not aware of that!

Shall amend my scripts immediately.

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Re:YouTube to limit default video quality around the world f... by dredmorbius on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @03:02AM (#22682552)

mpv is absolutely transformative for Youtube (and a huge number of other platforms, services, & urls).

youtube-dl can directly stream as well, e.g.,

    youtube-dl -o - "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj" | vlc -

(from the manpage).

And there's mps-youtube as well.

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