NAME

youtube-dl-play - Download videos with youtube-dl *and* play them while downloading

VERSION

This document describes version 0.007 of youtube-dl-play (from Perl distribution App-YoutubeDlUtils), released on 2020-09-09.

SYNOPSIS

Usage:

 % youtube-dl-play [OPTS] <URL_OR_VIDEO_ID>...

Examples:

 % youtube-dl-play       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKvtNawdS8
 % youtube-dl-play -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKvtNawdS8 ;# force 360p mp4 format
 % youtube-dl-play -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKvtNawdS8 ;# force 720p mp4 format

DESCRIPTION

You want to download a video but want to see it while it downloads (and of course do not want to download it twice)? This is a wrapper for youtube-dl which does the following for each argument:

• Run youtube-dl with --get-filename

  To get the output filename, first this is executed:

   % youtube-dl [OPTS] --get-filename <URL_OR_VIDEO_ID>

• Run youtube-dl that outputs to stdout and pipe it to mpv

   % youtube-dl [OPTS] -o - <URL_OR_VIDEO_ID> | tee <OUTPUTFILENAME> | mpv -

Some caveats:

• The media-player program mpv as well as the tee utility are required

• Each command-line argument must be a video ID or video URL, not a playlist URL

• You should not request a format that does not stream

  For example, if you specify -f 135+140 (merging of video-only 720p MP4 and audio-only AAC stream) you will have to wait for youtube-dl to download the whole video & audio streams and merge them before getting the video to play.

• If you specify multiple URL's, you cannot go forward to the next video or backward to the previous

  In mpv you can use ">" or "ENTER" to go to the next video in the playlist, or "<" to go backward to the previous. You cannot do this using this script because the URLs are streamed individually one-by-one with separate invocation of youtube-dl and mpv.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-YoutubeDlUtils.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-YoutubeDlUtils.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-YoutubeDlUtils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Other youtube-dl wrappers in App::YoutubeDlUtils and App::YoutubeDlIf.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.