marcolucidi

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   by marcolucidi 3y ago

   i installed `yt-dlp` once with: $ wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp && chmod +x yt-dlp && mv yt-dlp "$HOME/bin/" (actua
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   by marcolucidi 5y ago

   oh wow, that's pretty cool and impressive! thanks for sharing. > ytsearch does not support continuation searches.... Continuation searches occur when a user scrolls to the bottom of a search results page. true, I never bothered addi
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   by marcolucidi 5y ago

   sounds great!
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   by marcolucidi 5y ago

   thanks! as already said, ytcast won't work "directly" with chromecast since they use a different protocol, but there are other projects linked in this thread which work very nice with chromecast!
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   by marcolucidi 5y ago

   sounds great!
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   by marcolucidi 5y ago

   thank you! another handy thing that ytcast does and that chrome / YouTube smartphone app don't do is to wake-on-lan my tv if it's off when i want to play a video.
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   by marcolucidi 5y ago

   thanks, very glad you liked the readme :)
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   by marcolucidi 5y ago

   yes, ytcast should work with any DIAL enabled device that supports the YouTube on TV app, so it doesn't require a specific device, but it's limited to YouTube videos.
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   by marcolucidi 5y ago

   cool! good to know about catt! unfortunately i don't have a chromecast to trying it out.
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    thanks! yes, unfortunately the algo is still influenced because ytcast "tells" the YouTube on TV app to play the videos.
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    thank you! the search video functionality is not builtin into ytcast, but is actually a separate script (ytsearch[0]) so you can use it with other tools! > cast videos saved on the laptop directly.... This would be a welcome addition. ye
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    yes? i mean for YouTube videos yes (if your tv supports the YouTube app and DIAL protocol).
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    cool! lots of interesting things can be done with a chromecast, unfortunately i don't have one.
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    i'm very glad you appreciated that! > I loathe "magic" - and love seeing the mechanics of how stuff like this works. yeah me too :)
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    unfortunately it doesn't, it merely "tells" the YouTube on TV app to play videos.
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    yeah, i especially dislike searching videos with the remote!
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    i learned about catt in this thread and i never used it, so i may be wrong about something, but these should be the main differences: - they use a different protocol for device discovery, catt uses mDNS, ytcast uses DIAL. - catt requires a
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    good for you! good to know about castnow :)
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    by marcolucidi 5y ago

    nope
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    Show HN: ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line(github.com)

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