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Can you explain your setup? I'm interested
Im on linux and thats all i know, so if you arent i cant help ya...
You can install mpv from your package manager. This should automatically install yt-dlp as a dependency, but probably not the latest version which is very necessary.
That means you have to get the latest version from the github https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#release-files Just take the first thing in the table.
This yt-dlp file will have to go into your /home/user/.local/bin/ folder, so that it gets used instead of the outdated version installed by your OS when mpv looks for it.
That should be the basic setup. To use it you just do
mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0in your terminal, which will open that video. In my RSS reader i can define a custom browser application, so i just give itmpvas a browser, that way i dont have to open a terminal every time.If you want to have a button that redirects youtube vids from your browser to mpv, that requires some more tinkering. If you wanna do that i can write another comment.
I'm on Debian. Which RSS reader do you use? Is there a fuzzy search for YouTube?
Im using
quiterss. Its kinda old so you might miss a lot of modern features.It only takes proper feed URLs like this https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCuNy42Y5egf07cSiHbF23wg so you gotta get the channel_id from somewhere, but you can also just import an .opml file that you exported from another RSS reader.
Im sure there are better ones but i just need keyword filtering and categories so i have somewhat basic needs.