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Wait, VLC has a youtube-dl integration?
mpv does, if that's what you're looking for.
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mpv does, if that's what you're looking for.
Oh that's nice! I was actually already using mpv for playback but I never noticed this feature. The only disadvantage this has over my stitched together setup is that I don't get to keep the video afterwards but it fixes a lot of pain points.
Which also has the advantage that playback will always be smooth. That's almost always true of playing directly from a youtube URL, but I have had occasional issues. Most notably that leaving a straight-from-youtube video paused long enough will get it into a state you can't resume from.
http://www.jaruzel.com/apps/youtube/
(Select 'View (New Window)')
It suits me, and gets used lots. I've never bothered to look, but I reckon there's probably a Chrome extension that also does the same.
I'm really surprised to see how many people appreciate this feature. I've tried to use it many times but I've found that when I'm watching a video I either want to give it my full(screen) attention (movie, entertainment) or have it in the background entirely (music, news, podcast.) I've personally not found a use for it and end up closing it after about 5-10 minutes.
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It works better than the native support on OSX. A lot of videos I watch on Safari don't show the PIP button but work fine on Firefox.
In Safari, you can right-click the speaker icon in the tab or address bar, and there's a PIP option in the menu. Not as accessible as Firefox for sure.
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Oh that's nice! I was actually already using mpv for playback but I never noticed this feature. The only disadvantage this has over my stitched together setup is that I don't get to keep the video afterwards but it fixes a lot of pain points.
I mean, if you want to keep the video afterwards, you can just download it and then play it. Which also has the advantage that playback will always be smooth. That's almost always true of playing directly from a youtube URL, but I have had occasional issues. Most notably that leaving a straight-from-youtube video paused long enough will get it into a state you can't resume from.
I often watch talks or similar kinds of (long) videos in the bg some of which I might wish to keep that's why I like being able to download and view at the same time. But downloading a second time during quite hours is probably also fine.
I really love this feature and I hope that it receives more love and polish in the future. It's unfortunately unusable with foreign language videos as the subtitles don't pop out with the video. Not sure if this is due to the lack of such an API, or if the major video providers (Netflix, YouTube, etc.) simply haven't implemented it. My other wishlist feature is to have rewind/forward controls natively in the PIP wind…
Unless the captions are burned in, currently you cannot have the captions show up in the PiP video due to the API restrictions. It's mentioned in the proposal doc here: https://www.w3.org/TR/picture-in-picture/#security-considera...
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In Safari, you can right-click the speaker icon in the tab or address bar, and there's a PIP option in the menu. Not as accessible as Firefox for sure.
Good to know, thanks. I suspect right click doesn't work when there's a transparent div over the video.
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if you like vim like keybindings courtesy of tridactyl bind V hint -W ! mpv to show a letter or letters adjacent to all links and open the one chosen in mpv. Normally most pages have few enough links visible that hints are either 1 or 2 characters. This means instead of picking up the mouse you can hit 3 keys.
You can get most pages down to 1 character if you craft your own custom selector, e.g. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/dc8919e7e65d5dfa... For the record we don't recommend piping straight to `!` as a malicious (and fairly Tridactyl specific) site could use it to execute whatever it wanted. We have a default bind for open in mpv that sanitises things - https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/dc8919e7e…