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yt \- a command\-line youtube client
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\f[B]yt\f[] [OPTION]...
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yt is a command\-line front\-end to YouTube which allows you to
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browse YouTube videos and play them directly from the command\-line. It
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uses youtube\-dl and mplayer or omxplayer to actually play the videos. The
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combination of a text based interface and omxplayer makes yt a great
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YouTube client for the Raspberry Pi.
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\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
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print this help text and exit
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\fB\-\-player\fR {mplayer,omxplayer}
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specifies what program to use to play videos (default: mplayer)
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Play selection while suppressing video e.g. Audio only
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NOTE: This flag is ignored when using omxplayer (default: False)
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\fB\-\-bandwidth\fR\ BANDWIDTH
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Choose prefered minimum video quality. This value will be prefered
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be prefered video quality and will increment up if chosen setting
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is unavailable. Example: "--bandwidth 5" will try and use codec
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#5 (240p) and if unavailable, will step up to codec #18 (270p/360p).
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Valid choices from low to high are "17, 5, 18, 43" (default: None)
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\fBVideos don't play when selected in interface\fR
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Make sure you have the latest version of youtube-dl. youtube-dl has a self update mechanism:
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\fBsudo youtube-dl -U\fR
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\fBOmxplayer starts and terminates without playing video\fR
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For high quality videos the default memory allocation on the Raspberry Pi doesn't provide enough memory to the GPU.
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The default 192M ARM, 64M GPU split can be changed to a 128M ARM, 128M GPU split using raspi-config.
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\fBsudo raspi-config\fR
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# Allocate 128M to the GPU
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See \fBhttp://elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup\fR for more information.
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Bugs and suggestions should be reported at:
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<https://github.com/rjw57/yt/issues>
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yt is released into license here by the copyright holders.
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This README file was originally written by Rich Wareham
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(<https://github.com/rjw57>) and is likewise released into license here.
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Initial coding, and main maintenance is done by
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Rich Wareham <rjw57@cantab.net>.
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The homepage is available at
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.B "\%https://github.com/rjw57/yt"
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.BR "youtube-dl" "(1), "