How to display Playlists on Channel?

[mrkapqa]

Hello ,

i would like to display the playlists of a a channel in the terminal in order to select one to play . How could i achieve this?

i start with

youtube-viewer

--channel sirius-eng.net

1

but then it shows the videos in select order , but i would like to get to the "playlists"

Thank you very much.

[mrkapqa]

ok, found out:

:p1

[mrkapqa]

another question:

how can i force the playlist to open as maximized windows?

Thank you very much.

[mrkapqa]

sometimes, however it would say:

--channel emian miro
Option channel requires an argument
[!] Error in command-line arguments!

[trizen]

Hi,

When searching for channels, the argument you are looking for is --channels (plural), followed by the search keywords.

youtube-viewer --channels "emian miro"

The argument --channel (singular) is used for listing the latest videos from a channel ID:

youtube-viewer --channel 'UC9g1-0gt2HxI10jdI7yEhkA'

Let me know if this answers your question.

[mrkapqa]

thank you,
the error was on my side as i wrote --channel instead of --channels,
yes, i did answer the question. happy new year!

[mrkapqa]

i have another question ,

how could i download eg.

1-13 -d

but with middle quality instead of best?

thanks

[trizen]

Try the following command:

:d=1-13 --res=480p

[mrkapqa]

thank you,

i forgot that i need mp4 format for playing back on ipod touch 1st gen (up to 640p)

so i did your hack

However, there is an hack around this, involving youtube-dl:

add in the configuration file the following entry in the video_players section:

mp4dl => {
arg => "-f mp4 URL",
cmd => "youtube-dl",
},

then execute youtube-viewer with the following argument: --player=mp4dl

Example:

$ youtube-viewer --player=mp4dl linux videos

Now, each selected video, instead of being played, will be downloaded in MP4 format with youtube-dl.

is there a possibility to select here the resolution of mp4 ?

[trizen]

Check out the man page of youtube-dl, which lists the following examples:

# Download best mp4 format available or any other best if no mp4 available
$ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best'

# Download best format available but not better that 480p
$ youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]'

Using the second example, we can add the following entry in the video_players section:

mp4dl640      => {
                  arg => "-f 'mp4[height<=640]+bestaudio/best' *URL*",
                  cmd => "youtube-dl",
                },

then execute:

youtube-viewer --player=mp4dl640