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I am currently watching a 30 minute video from Louis Rossmann. The video is on YouTube. I am watching it with mpv. How?
Well, first you ask on the Fediverse, then you get a response for your question.
I ask on the Fediverse => https://is-a.wyvern.rip/notes/9h7jj1xm1o I get a response on the Fediverse
If you don't feel like opening those links, you don't have to! Here's the mpv configuration that I have, located at `~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf`:
script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=yt-dlp ytdl-raw-options=ignore-config=,sub-format=en,sub-langs="en,auto",write-sub= script-opts=sponsorblock_minimal-hash=true script-opts=sponsorblock_minimal-categories=["sponsor","intro","outro","selfpromo","interaction","preview"]
The first line is the most important part. OK maybe not so important. OK actually completely unimportant, because you can just throw mpv a YouTube link and it will play it, even if you have `yt-dlp` but no `youtube-dl` installed.
Yes, you need some kind of YouTube downloader installed. I'd recommend `yt-dlp` since it's much more alive than `youtube-dl` (which had no more releases since 2021).
The second line just allows captions to be turned on. Not sure why the `sub-format` option is given a language, it's for a format in `yt-dlp`.
3rd and 4th lines are related to mpv_sponsorblock_minimal but don't seem to apply. I modified the script to do the same, but the configuration is pretty much the same in my config file and the modified script.
You can install mpv_sponsorblock_minimal by dropping the repo into a folder located in `~/.config/mpv/scripts/`, so the files in that repo would probably be located in `~/.config/mpv/scripts/mpv_sponsorblock_minimal`.
(A test video to test your SponsorBlock setup (warning: nonsense): <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwai2Jhy_A>)
Also some disadvantages:
The last thing is *getting* videos to watch, since I do still subscribe to a few things.
That... I thought about RSS/Atom feeds but the last piece of the puzzle seems to be finding clients. I thought about vore, but I'm not sure if I want to settle on it...
(Tip: Append channel ID to this URL to get RSS/Atom feed: `https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=`)
Or you know, I could just use NewPipe SponsorBlock.