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@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ Videos or video formats streamed via RTMP protocol can only be downloaded when [ ### I have downloaded a video but how can I play it? -Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [mpv](https://mpv.io/), [vlc](http://www.videolan.org) or [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/). +Once the video is fully downloaded, use any video player, such as [mpv](https://mpv.io/), [vlc](http://www.videolan.org/) or [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/). ### I extracted a video URL with `-g`, but it does not play on another machine / in my webbrowser. @@ -816,6 +816,12 @@ Use the `--cookies` option, for example `--cookies /path/to/cookies/file.txt`. N Passing cookies to youtube-dl is a good way to workaround login when a particular extractor does not implement it explicitly. Another use case is working around [CAPTCHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) some websites require you to solve in particular cases in order to get access (e.g. YouTube, CloudFlare). +### How do I stream directly to media player? + +You will first need to tell youtube-dl to stream media to stdout with `-o -`, and also tell your media player to read from stdin (it must be capable of this for streaming) and then pipe former to latter. For example, streaming to [vlc](http://www.videolan.org/) can be achieved with: + + youtube-dl -o - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj | vlc - + ### Can you add support for this anime video site, or site which shows current movies for free? As a matter of policy (as well as legality), youtube-dl does not include support for services that specialize in infringing copyright. As a rule of thumb, if you cannot easily find a video that the service is quite obviously allowed to distribute (i.e. that has been uploaded by the creator, the creator's distributor, or is published under a free license), the service is probably unfit for inclusion to youtube-dl. |