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[–] detonational_VuSE@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You can give mpv an URL from YouTube and it will play that video.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

It's the same process. Mpv uses yt-dl or yt-dlp on the back end when loading YouTube videos from the URL.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

Oh, cool. I have both installed for different reasons and discovered it by accident.