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I find myself increasingly frequently using 'youtube-dl' to grab clips, advantages being that youtube sometimes only buffers a little bit before stopping and this way I don't need to care about keeping tabs open or codecs.

Everything always plays fine with VLC and I can mess with the playback speed by simply pressing '[]'.

Should probably automate this. Maybe independently of browsers, just sniff my own traffic and MITM myself (request goes to youtube-dl, browser gets a page that closes itself immediately).



I would be interested in developments regarding this. I was thinking perhaps some extension to firefox to trigger youtube-dl. I don't think firefox would provide that kind of system level access to plugins, however.




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