Freetube: Open video in external player

[n1trux]

It would be awesome if you could have a setting and a right-click menu entry where you open a video in an external player from a list of videos.

MPV can play youtube (and other!) videos with youtube-dl.

[dojima]

This is probably my most desired feature. Having the option to have FreeTube simply pass the YouTube URL to a configured player when clicking a video thumbnail would be amazing.

[pirate486743186]

yep, that.

[PeterAlabaster]

Until this gets implemented on freetube - my workaround on linux is click the drawer icon, click Copy YouTube Link, then have a keybind preset for the following:
mpv "$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)"

This is basically the same as typing mpv <youtube_url> which MPV auto recognises and plays.

Requirement on debian based distro:
sudo apt install xclip

Then just press the keybind combo and video opens in external player

Swap mpv out for whatever player you want (of course it has to support a url in the commandline arg, but each player may have different syntax for this).

I've noticed lately this command errors on some videos, mpv uses youtube-dl and it doesn't seem to recognise video formats. Could be youtube using vp9/h.265? Not sure.

[vensko]

More use cases:

• Open video in any browser with specified arguments (incognito, without extensions, and so on).
• Send URL to youtube-dl or a shell script.

[trostboot]

I'll add my voice of support for a feature like this. Ideally it would be configurable to pass the applicable URL to the external application of choice with a single click on the video.

I'll spare you the details, but this would be a huge improvement for me and I would love to see this implemented.

[palikacska]

Another reason why this feature is a must have: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/912