[GUIDE] How to use xine and yt-dlp with gtk-pipe-viewer without having to download the video

[CanYouJustWorkPlease]

Hi! First of all, thank you a lot for making pipe-viewer and gtk-pipe-viewer! I've been trying to play 720p videos on a 20 year old laptop, and while the internet browsers only allowed me to play flawlessly 480p videos (on the 3 fastest browsers, tested among other browsers - starting from fastest to slowest: qutebrowser, falkon and epiphany), only xine, yt-dlp and gtk-pipe-viewer combined played 720p videos almost without a problem. I've tested VLC, mpv and other players, but they still couldn't handle 720p in a nice fashion.

This is the configuration that I used in the settings of gtk-pipe-viewer:

resolution=""

video_player_selected=> "xine"

xine => {
    arg   => "-f '[height<=720]/mp4a' -o - *URL* | \nxine stdin:// --no-splash --no-logo -f",
    audio => "",
    cmd   => "yt-dlp",
    fs    => "",
	srt   => "",
}

Maybe this will be useful to someone.

Cheers!

P.S:
I had to use at least python3.8 to be able to get yt-dlp running on its latest stable version, otherwise it wouldn't work. I also had to install yt-dlp in a python3.8 venv to avoid some issues.

Note to self:
Unlike qutebrowser (way faster than falkon; 480p runs fine) and falkon (480p runs fine), epiphany makes cloudflare checkup work, it also supports captchas, but its graphics performance is bad, even for 480p.