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

[Eduardo Ochs]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 09:44, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
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> Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 09:00, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > 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...
>
> 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.

Hi Philip/Pkal,
can you confirm that you meant something like these two commands?

  mpv http://angg.twu.net/eev-videos/emacsconf2021.mp4
  mpv 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0Luz78qGw'

Is there a way to make the first one use the .vtt?
What command-line arguments do you suggest?
  Cheers,
    E.