Comment by 🐙 norayr
i pipe the output of yt-dlp to the input of mpv.
and it doesn't show any ads.
i have some presets for quality as a variable in the script.
i also fond a program called pipe-viewer that basically does the same but is more polished and has more options.
Mar 25 · 6 weeks ago
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and i wrote my own rss reader. youtube has rss feeds but it is hard to extract them from pages, so if when adding a feed you provide a youtube profile url my rss reader tries to get the rss and subscribe to it by scraping channel_id from the page source.
so my rss reader tells me how many new videos were published by thin or that person.
i don't even run a browser and that saves me lots of memory, and also youtube may not show me new videos from the authors i want to see new videos from.
i don't remember which are my favoirite channels i don't want to miss new videos from. so i have them in the rss reader and see on the left: 2 new videos from this author and 3 from that.
🚀 stack [OP] · Mar 25 at 01:06:
On Android I use Grayjay or new pipe, no ads. This is just for TVs
😺 BlueChinchompa · Apr 13 at 17:06:
For Android TV I personally like to use SmartTube Nightly and its been working very well.
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