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2010-11-27 , 12:10
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#272
Originally Posted by MohammadAG View Post
Is there any chance you could add an option to forward a youtube link to the media player? Sometimes I get links via chat and youtube's heavier than cuteTube on the CPU.

Thanks
Wouldn't it be easier to use the youtube-dl/ytstream script for something like that?

Originally Posted by MohammadAG View Post
I'd like to point out PaulFertser's script, which streams videos from youtube and plays them with mplayer

/usr/bin/ytstream:
Code:
mplayer -cache 2048 "`youtube-dl -f 18 -g $1`"
chmod +x it, then ytstream youtubelinkhere
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