For a old laptop with Intel atom processor and I think 2gb ram.

    • Strit
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      101 year ago

      Sure, play your youtube videos on Lynx.

      We all know that’s one of the main things people use browsers for, that’s not work, these days. ;)

        • smpl
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          31 year ago

          I always play youtube videos with mpv.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Do you just drag and drop into mpv or how does it work? With youtube seemingly trying to prevent the use of adblockers, I have to look for alternatives ahead of time.

            • smpl
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              11 year ago

              I must admit I copy paste the link to the terminal, so it’s not a seamless experience. I don’t watch enough videos to have done anything other than write a wrapper script with my preferred settings for youtube videos and to convert invidious links to youtube links.

              I just tried running mpv --idle=yes --force-window=yes from the terminal and drag a youtube link to the window. It plays like it should. yt-dlp is installed locally for my user in ~/.local/bin and that directory is appended to the PATH environment variable. I also have yt-dlp symlinked to youtube-dl for mpv to pick it up. I guess what’s missing is my preferred options for youtube videos, which I could set up in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf. Everytime some site breaks, you run yt-dlp -U to update and cross your fingers.