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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A super lightweight option for viewing videos that I don't see mentioned often is drag and dropping the link into MPV.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, give it a try. Easiest way is to just open a new mpv window and drag from the url bar into it. There's also a lua script that allows mpv to still make use of sponsorblock, but I haven't ever tried it. Youtube-DL is part of a standard mpv install unless you disabled it.

You can also just mpv 'youtubeurl' from terminal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I also recently discovered mpv --no-video [url]. Useful for when I just want to listen to a podcast or something. Sadly, I can't get it to work with Spotify