• theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    I still have to wait a long time for the video to load in the Mpv cache, and sometimes I want a bunch of videos to watch later (or watch multiple times if they’re educational). In which case, I either open up a bunch of videos in their own mpv windows and they all load while I’m watching the first one, or I download them while I’m doing something else.

    But loading a bunch of mpv windows is heavier than a bunch of terminals running yt-dlp (and I could also just switch to using tmux… which I probably should get around to at some point).

    • nore {she/her}@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I still have to wait a long time for the video to load in the Mpv cache

      In my experience the video loads in a few seconds compared to the minutes it’d take for it to download, but I get your second point.

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        2 months ago

        Depends on the options mpv passes to yt-dlp—I personally have in my mpv config to grab 720p videos, so that it’s faster than downloading full quality.