Low Resource YouTube playtime

(Please Google don't sue me, and since 19th march, also Amazon)

Do you use a linux distro? Does your pc have the compute power of a 80's toaster? Mine sure does! So lets make watching your favorite youtube videos a cpu friendly task.

What do you need for this beauty?

• mpv
• yt-dlp
• ffmpeg
• Configure mpv to use yt-dlp as default for youtube videos. If your not sure how to do this, please use the install prerequisite script.

Nice! How can I use it?

Well you can blindly trust me and run the following command with sudo.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HFMorais/low-resource-youtube-playtime/main/install-prerequisites.sh)"

And now what?

Now just use the binary, simply call it in your terminal of choice.

Usage: command [-h] [-q quality] [--simulate] <URL>
-h (--help): Print this help message.
-v (--version): Print the version of the program.
-q (--quality): Specify the video quality (e.g., 720, 1080, 360). If the specified quality is not available, 720 and upwards will be used.
--simulate: Simulate the command without playing the video (debug only).
<URL>: URL of the video to be played.

My favorite way of using it, is to create a keyboard shortcut and just have the video url in the clipboard.