any way to stream youtube videos directly with mplayer ??
 

out of curiosity quite sometime ago , i tried streaming youtube videos directly with mplayer pass to it with a flc url without the help of a web browser ...

but after a few attempts , still cant do it and i just give up ...

i'm not really interested in internet videos/animations/flash and such , just want to see how this is going to work ... nothing much ...

any clues ?? or any other linux video application can do that ??


//thanks in advance ...


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or is it either my pc is too slow in spec for streaming or i need to give some correct paremeters to mplayer ??

but i believe i could play them locally without much problems ...


any ideas ??


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YouTube uses Flash Video. I do not believe mplayer supports that format.

should be flv instead of flc(mistake) and i remember mplayer could play this type of video file ...

the only problem i got was that i cant play it without download them onto disk first , no point keeping or having those youtube files on disk ...


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There is one way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuq0_nY3Xk
It requires youtube-dl bash script probably: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
But in my case i not made it working.
But this worked instead:

ten your old post ??

the qt gui Smplayer has the youtube browse built in

you can stream youtube with quvi and ffserver.

You can use mplayer if you wanna as well.

Always avoid slow python codes ; prefer C/C++ or Asm!!!