MPlayer youtube script
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bash script for playing youtube videos
- save it as youtube.sh
- chmod +x youtube.sh
- place it somewhere in PATH (like /usr/local/bin )
Usage:
- youtube.sh <url> [mplayer args]
- 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 URL="$1" if [ "$URL" != "http://${URL#???????}" ] then echo "usage: $0 <youtube-URL> [mplayer args ...]" exit fi shift echo \"http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=$(wget -q -O - "$URL" \ | sed -e '/fullscreenUrl/!d' \ -e "s/.*video_id=\([^']*\).*/\1/" \ -e 's/ /_/g' \ )\" \ | xargs mplayer "$@"
created by enouf and n3kl and amphi
modified by Elte