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

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Philip Kaludercic wrote:

> 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.

Some say yt-dlp is better ...

#! /bin/zsh
#
# this file:
#   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/yt-dlp

dl-upgrade-3 () {
    yt-dlp -U
    yt-dlp --version
}

dl-upgrade-2 () {
    local gz=https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz
    python3 -m pip install --force-reinstall $gz
    yt-dlp --version
}

dl-upgrade () {
    local url=https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp
    local bin=/usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
    sudo curl -L $url -o $bin
    sudo chmod a+rx $bin
    yt-dlp --version
}

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