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

[Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 09:00, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
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> Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:
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> > 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...

  Cheers, E.