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You can even do fun things like transcode a stream into a format that omxplayer can handle and render a video straight onto a Raspberry Pi without having to download it (and without X11)

'omxplayer' '--blank' '--aspect-mode' 'stretch' <(youtube-dl -o - --audio-format m4a --recode-video mp4 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKNYsKwM6HI')

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While I was still using my Raspberry Pi as a "media center", I wrote a small server using tornado that did this via a URL: https://github.com/filmor/rpi-media/tree/master/ytdld

I had a small javascript commandlet in my bookmarks that allowed me to start playback directly from a youtube (or any other youtube-dl supported) page.

You can also do that with the 'Play to Kodi' browser addon.

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