Drag and drop GUI to stream YT videos in mpv

[Member PPC]

A nice way to drag and drop videos from web pages and stream them in mpv (works great in low powered computers, using the ytdlautoformat.lua script and editing it so the default video quality is 360p).

Start the script, move the window to the right bottom of the screen and drag and drop any video link there, and wait a moment to watch it in mpv…

the code (it can even be pasted directly into the terminal):

#!/bin/bash
#GUI to allow for a permanent drag and drop window, that plays YT videos or any video file that's draged inside it
yad --dnd --geometry=100x60 --on-top --no-buttons --skip-taskbar --title="YTplayer" --text="Drag-n-drop a YT link or a video file here \nto play them in mpv" | while read selection
do
video=$(echo "$selection" | sed 's/file:\/\///')
mpv $video
done

P.

[Member techore]

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Neat!

Adding it to my library of hacks.

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment

Regarding above. I failed to notice my terminal was root. Doh! xorg was running as a user.

• This reply was modified 5 months ago by techore.

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Works on mine.

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[Member marcelocripe]

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Thank you very much PPC.

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Many thanks PPC,
script now in my KEEP folder.

[Member marcelocripe]

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Hello PPC.

I still don’t know what the name of this program will be, but I managed to make the small modifications for the program to receive the translations.

Now the .desktop file for this program will be missing.

Thank you very much.

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Olá PPC.

Eu ainda não sei qual será o nome deste programa, mas eu consequi fazer as pequenas modificações para o programa receber as traduções.

Agora vai ficar faltando o arquivo .desktop deste programa.

Muito obrigado.

Attachments:

1. YTplayer_12-15-2022.zip

[Member marcelocripe]

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Proposal for the .desktop file.
Revision of the native speakers of the respective languages is required.

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Proposta para o arquivo .desktop.
É necessário a revisão dos nativos dos respectivos idiomas.

ytplayer.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Video;Player;TV;
#Exec=/bin/sh -c '/opt/ytplayer/ytplayer'
#or
Exec=ytplayer
Icon=youtube
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Name=YouTube Player
Name[de]=YouTube-Videoplayer »YTplayer«
Name[fr]=Lecteur vidéo YouTube YTplayer
Name[fr_BE]=Lecteur vidéo YouTube YTplayer
Name[it]=Lettore video di YouTube YTplayer
Name[pt]=Reprodutor de Vídeos do YouTube YTplayer
Name[pt_BR]=Reprodutor de Vídeos do YouTube YTplayer

Comment=Play movie and music files or YouTube URLs/links
Comment[de]=Spielen oder spielen Sie Film- und Musikdateien oder YouTube-URLs/-Links ab
Comment[fr]=Lire des fichiers de films et de musique ou des URL/liens YouTube
Comment[fr_BE]=Lire des fichiers de films et de musique ou des URL/liens YouTube
Comment[it]=Riproduci film e file musicali o URL/link di YouTube
Comment[pt]=Reproduzir ou tocar arquivos de filmes e músicas ou URLs/ligações do YouTube
Comment[pt_BR]=Reproduzir ou tocar arquivos de filmes e músicas ou URLs/links do YouTube

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