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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 57e79806c8..e44a69235b 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -590,10 +590,18 @@ Program Behavior There is no sanity checking so it's possible to break things (i.e. passing invalid parameters to youtube-dl). + A proxy URL can be passed for youtube-dl to use it in parsing the website. + This is useful for geo-restricted URLs. After youtube-dl parsing, some + URLs also require a proxy for playback, so this can pass that proxy + information to mpv. Take note that SOCKS proxies aren't supported and + https URLs also bypass the proxy. This is a limitation in FFmpeg. + .. admonition:: Example - ``--ytdl-raw-options=username=user,password=pass`` - ``--ytdl-raw-options=force-ipv6=`` + - ``--ytdl-raw-options=proxy=[http://127.0.0.1:3128]`` + - ``--ytdl-raw-options-append=proxy=http://127.0.0.1:3128`` ``--load-stats-overlay=<yes|no>`` Enable the builtin script that shows useful playback information on a key |