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47 lines
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pipe-viewer (search and stream videos from youtube)
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pipe-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming
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videos from YouTube. pipe-viewer is a fork of youtube-viewer that
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does not require a Google API key. Usage and user interface are
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identical to youtube-viewer.
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For playing videos, this uses mplayer, vlc, or mpv. However, the
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mplayer that ships with Slackware has some issues with pipe-viewer
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(or actually with youtube: the audio stream cuts out randomly, and
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can be fixed by pressing the left arrow usually).
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Optional dependencies:
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vlc and/or mpv - for playing videos. highly recommended.
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perl-Gtk3, perl-File-ShareDir - for gtk-pipe-viewer.
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perl-lwp-useragent-cached - for local cache support.
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perl-JSON-XS - for faster JSON deserialization.
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perl-Text-CharWidth, perl-Unicode-LineBreak - for better formatting
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in the terminal.
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yt-dlp or youtube-dl [1] - if this is present, pipe-viewer will use it
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to detect available formats for the video.
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Counting optional ones, pipe-viewer has over 40 dependencies. To make
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life easier, there's a "pipe-viewer.sqf" queue file included with this
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build, which includes everything listed above (except mpv and vlc).
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This build always includes the command-line client (pipe-viewer). For
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the GTK client (gtk-pipe-viewer[3]), install perl-Gtk3 and
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perl-File-ShareDir before running this script. If you have them
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installed but don't want gtk-pipe-viewer, you can set GTK=no in the
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script's environment.
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Notes:
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[1] A small caveat about yt-dlp and youtube-dl: pipe-viewer works
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without them, though occasionally it'll choose a lower quality
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than is available for some videos. However, if yt-dlp or
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youtube-dl are present but outdated, pipe-viewer will fail to
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play videos at all! If you suspect this, remove yt-dlp and/or
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youtube-dl and try without them.
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[3] To force gtk-pipe-viewer to use your preferred terminal for
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downloading with wget and watching in a terminal, set
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TERMINAL in the script's environment (e.g. TERMINAL="xterm" or
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TERMINAL="urxvt").
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