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Yt-dlp is the best way to download videos and audio (www.spacebar.news)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (26 children)

It's the main way I watch youtube now. After Piped and Newpipe stopped working for me across all devices, I only use 2 methods of watching Youtube now. Open in mpv (which is configured to use yt-dlp in the backend to make things faster), and download using yt-dlp. So it's key to me keeping on watching Youtube. Recently, I've started getting ads showing up even on Mobile Vivaldi, so no more YT on my phone.

So my new workflow is to use Piped to find a video, then copy the end of the link and type "yt-dlp " in a terminal, wait for the video(s) to download, and open in mpv.

In some cases, use Qutebrowser, with a custom keybind to open a video in mpv.

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