From 079ecd7f017be7528ab597e5db36042a0eecee0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:51:53 +0100 Subject: player: integrate ytdl_hook.lua --- DOCS/man/options.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'DOCS') diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index efc0228a76..b10db21a75 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -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 ----- -- cgit v1.2.3