Tip #701 Stream YouTube videos directly to your media player
YouTube is great, but the embedded flash player doesn't offer a lot in the way of customizing your viewing experience. There are quite a few options for downloading flv video files from YouTube, but adding the following function to your bashrc will let you stream them directly to your choice of media player.function mtube {
video_id=$(curl -s $1 | sed -n "/watch_fullscreen/s;.*\(video_id.\+\)&title.*;\1;p");
mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?$video_id");
}
This should work with any URL of the form http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[video id here], for example:
mtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQ0QNi2CzA
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