For a old laptop with Intel atom processor and I think 2gb ram.

    • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Sure, play your youtube videos on Lynx.

      We all know that’s one of the main things people use browsers for, that’s not work, these days. ;)

          • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            Do you just drag and drop into mpv or how does it work? With youtube seemingly trying to prevent the use of adblockers, I have to look for alternatives ahead of time.

            • smpl@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I must admit I copy paste the link to the terminal, so it’s not a seamless experience. I don’t watch enough videos to have done anything other than write a wrapper script with my preferred settings for youtube videos and to convert invidious links to youtube links.

              I just tried running mpv --idle=yes --force-window=yes from the terminal and drag a youtube link to the window. It plays like it should. yt-dlp is installed locally for my user in ~/.local/bin and that directory is appended to the PATH environment variable. I also have yt-dlp symlinked to youtube-dl for mpv to pick it up. I guess what’s missing is my preferred options for youtube videos, which I could set up in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf. Everytime some site breaks, you run yt-dlp -U to update and cross your fingers.