Drop (yad gui droplet), updated

Drop clips/urls from chrome/youtube to mpv playlist.

What it does ↓

• Waits for urls or files to be droped (Can be closed after the fact and mpv shall continue)
• Add those to mpv playlist (using pipes/socat)
• Starts mpv in that piped mode if not already running
• writes a log (defaults to ~/.watched.m3u) in a format similar to m3u (so that log can be fed to mpv at a later date)

What it doesn’t do ↓

• Manage your playlist in any way after the drop has happened

M3u-like Log may look like this:

#EXTINF:3452, How Can AI Help Humanity? | with Nick Jennings | 57:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l05fans-PoE

#EXTINF:1278, You asked, Brian Cox answered | 21:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivqdd6Owkzw

#EXTINF:7112, Mysterious Universe | NOVA Documentary HD | 1:58:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WifRMy2oOaw

There is slight concept of ‘session’ going on here, ‘session’ is active until that pipe-controled-mpv instance is opened, on the other hand one can close and reopen the drop as needed (and it’s still the same session).

Cli info interface ↓

watch -t drop -i
# may return
Flat Earther Gets His Numbers Embarrassingly Wrong! (10/12) 1%

Known problems ↓

• Live streams may not have option lower than 60fps, so the stream may not play with hardcoded values for –ytdl-format. edit: Seems to be fixed with multiple-options mode, denoted by slash (Basically meaning: play 1920x at 30 fps or less, if fails (format not there), then decrease res and try again …)

--ytdl-format='bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=1920][height<=1200][fps<=30]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=730]'

• cli drop -l will sometimes not find the correct line with ack. (Won’t fix)

Slight debate