MPlayer youtube script
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bash script for playing youtube videos
usage:
- save it as youtube.sh
- chmod +x youtube.sh
- place it somewhere in PATH (like /usr/local/bin )
- youtube.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example
- youtube.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example -dumpstream -dumpfile something.flv
- youtube.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example -aspect 16:9
- youtube.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example -xy 2
#!/bin/bash if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "No URL!"; exit; fi url=$1 shift echo \"http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=`wget -q -O - $url | grep fullscreenUrl | awk -F'video_id=' '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/ /_/g' | tr -d \'\; `\" | xargs mplayer $*
created by enouf and n3kl