Re: A way to watch (some) videos about Emacs with wget and mpv

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 09:00, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>>
>> Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Long story short: 1) use two "wget"s and an "mpv"; 2) this is my
>> > 20th-ish attempt to find a way to point to wget-able videos, and the
>> > first one that I really like - and that would be easy to adapt to
>> > other people and to videos totally unrelated to eev; 3) I don't know
>> > if this would work well for the EmacsConf,
>>
>> Maybe I am missing something, but why not use youtube-dl/ytp-dl and just
>> pass the URL directly to mpv?
>
> Can you send an example of your idea as a series of commands that can
> be executed in a shell? I _think_ that I have good arguments in
> favor of the method with wget, but I need to check which command line
> arguments you're thinking of...

All you need is "mpv https://some.host/path/to/video.file"; or "mpv
https://a.service/that/doesnt/host/video/files.directly";, assuming you
have youtube-dl installed.

>   Cheers, E.