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@@ -422,6 +422,18 @@ Program Behavior
May be dangerous if playing from untrusted media.
+``--ytdl``, ``--no-ytdl``
+ Enable the youtube-dl hook-script. It will look at the input URL, and will
+ play the video located on the website. This works with many streaming sites,
+ not just the one the scripts are named after. This requires a recent version
+ of youtube-dl to be installed on the system.
+
+ If the script can't do anything with an URL, it will do nothing.
+
+ Currently disabled by default, because youtube-dl's generic extractor can
+ get stuck on some URL, preventing playback.
+
+ (Note: this is the replacement for the now removed libquvi support.)
Video
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