albinekb / open-pip-cli

📺 CLI for https://github.com/albinekb/open-pip - Open a movie url or path in macOS picture-in-picture

📺 open-pip-cli

CLI for open-pip This will let you open a movie url/path in macOS native picture-in-picture player.

Both local files and urls are supported.

Known working formats

• mp4
• m4v
• mov
• m3u8

Known not working formats

• mkv
• avi

Example

You can also pipe any video URL to open-pip. For example, using the ytdl module, you can play a YouTube video:

yarn global add ytdl
ytdl _HSylqgVYQI --print-url | open-pip

Using the twitch-url-cli module, you can stream a Twitch channel (you need a Twitch client ID though)

yarn global add twitch-url-cli
echo "abcdefghijklmno12345" > ~/.twitch-client-id
twitch-url BobRoss | open-pip

Let us know if you have examples for more services.

Install

yarn

yarn global add open-pip-cli

npm

npm install --global open-pip-cli

Requirements

As the native picture-in-picture player is only available in macOS Sierra (10.12) and above, this module will also only work with those versions.

Author

Albin Ekblom (@albinekb)