samundra/youtube-player

Borderless Youtube Player

Use screen to play it in the background

Fork screen process and detach it and enjoy the borderless video
OR run the video player and keep the terminal window open
Let it play and monitor the progress :)

SCREENSHOT

BACKGROUND

I was looking for borderless youtube video player and didn't find anything that worked on linux.

some suggested to use VLC and tweak the WM to remove the border. I tried it but didn't work for me.
compiz doesn't seem to work with application window border so well.

How I came with it?

I already knew about the mplayer and also I already knew about the youtube-dl. After thinking and playing around for a while with mplayer settings I got the borderless video. I just had to tweak around the settings that worked for me. The size of video window and the display settings. After I found the settings that worked for me, the remaining thing was to pull the videos from youtube and play it in the desktop :)

DEPENDENCIES

application	usage
youtube-dl	downloads the youtube videos and lets you stream directly from stdin
mplayer	play the borderless video
jq	used to parse the json, and extract youtube video links

DEPENDENCIES INSTALLATION

$ sudo apt install -y jq mplayer youtube-dl

USAGE

$ git clone git@github.com:samundra/youtube-player.git
$ cd youtube-player
$ chmod +x youtubeplayer.sh
$ ./youtubeplayer.sh {youtube-playlist-link}

Usage on Playlist

$ ./youtubeplayer.sh 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBQXaC1ulQ&list=PL51x_HtQrp9Fei1JgRHdBz4DG2ARkNlT0'

Usage on Single Video

$ ./youtubeplayer.sh 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLyw7jytykE'

Sample output as you start to play the video with the above command

MPlayer 1.2.1 (Debian), built with gcc-5.3.1 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...
libavformat version 56.40.101 (external)
[youtube] tLyw7jytykE: Downloading webpage
[youtube] tLyw7jytykE: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] tLyw7jytykE: Extracting video information
[youtube] tLyw7jytykE: Downloading MPD manifest
[download] Destination: -
[download]   0.1% of 12.22MiB at  4.91MiB/s ETA 00:02libavformat file format detected.
[download]   1.0% of 12.22MiB at  1.75MiB/s ETA 00:06[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f0d97902d80]Protocol name not provided, cannot determine if input is local or a network protocol, buffers and access patterns cannot be configured optimally without knowing the protocol
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und
VIDEO:  [H264]  640x360  24bpp  25.000 fps  544.0 kbps (66.4 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 major_brand: mp42
 minor_version: 0
 compatible_brands: isommp42
 creation_time: 2015-04-07 05:35:39
Load subtitles in ./
Opening video filter: [scale w=320 h=240]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 56.60.100 (external)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 96.0 kbit/3.40% (ratio: 12002->352800)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
...
...
... will keep going on while video is still playing

Sit back and enjoy the video.

How to quit currently playing video?

There are two ways you can exit the current video.

Click on the currently playing video window then hit q OR
Terminate the script by hitting Ctrl + C on the terminal where it was executed.

TIPS AND TRICKS

The video window is mplayer window. That means, you can click on it and the use the shortcuts that you use in mplayer.

Shortcuts

Shortcuts	What it does
q	quit the currently playing video, as soon as the current video finishes the next on the playlist will start to play automatically
space	Pause the video
shift + T	Enable/Disable Stick on Top option
m	Mute the video

TODO

Display title of the currently playing video
When current video is finished and it starts to play next video, it steals focus to itself, which is annoying when we are focused on doing other tasks.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Please feel free to fork it make changes to your heart's content when you are happy send a PR to this repository.
Please send PR against develop branch. The master branch will always remain stable and safe to use.
It's a bash script, so there's no specific guidelines other than the bash script guidelines.

samundra / youtube-player