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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOuN5KqufE werks on my machine
You can give mpv an URL from YouTube and it will play that video.
It's the same process. Mpv uses yt-dl or yt-dlp on the back end when loading YouTube videos from the URL.
Oh, cool. I have both installed for different reasons and discovered it by accident.