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> watch [/c <argument-string>] <video/playlist-url>
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This program takes a YouTube video/playlist URL as an argument + and opens the video/playlist in MPC-HC. The videos are streamed, + not downloaded and then played. There are downloadable builds of + MPC-HC with built-in support for YouTube streaming, but these + unfortunately do not support Windows XP. My program works on any + operating system that can run youtube-dl.
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The benefits of playing YouTube videos in a real media player are + many. If you have a non-widescreen monitor, you can zoom in to + remove black bars (in MPC-HC, View > Video Frame > Touch + Window From Outside). You can fix potential audio-video sync + issues in the video. Most importantly, you don't have to waste as + much memory on displaying YouTube's video page. (To get an idea of + how much memory YouTube uses, see this comparison + between YouTube and invidio.us, an alternative YouTube + front end.)

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The program can be started from the command prompt or the Run... + window. I recommend putting it somewhere in your PATH. Then, you + can easily watch videos by copying the URL, opening a Run... + window with Win-R and issuing watch <url>. A + command prompt will be visible as the program retrieves the + addresses for the audio and video streams, but will be closed once + MPC-HC is launched.

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If you supply an argument-string using the /c + option, it will be copied verbatim directly to the youtube-dl + command line, letting you specify extra parameters for the process + (for example, /c "-f best").

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If you want to interrupt the retrieval process (e.g., if there + are a hundred videos in the playlist and you just want to stream + the first five), press Ctrl-Break. This will open MPC-HC with the + videos that have been retrieved so far. If you want to interrupt + the process without launching MPC-HC, press Ctrl-C.

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Dependencies: youtube-dl, MPC-HC, the first of which must + be placed somewhere in your PATH. Note that youtube-dl needs to be + updated regularly; if the script stops working, then issue youtube-dl + -U from a command prompt.

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Bookmarklet

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To make a bookmarklet that opens a YouTube video from your + browser in MPC-HC, you need to download the files watch.exe, + watch.reg and watch.js from the repository.
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    Install watch.exe as C:\watch.exe.

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    Register the watch: protocol handler in the registry + by downloading and running watch.reg.

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    Copy the contents of watch.js to a bookmark in your + web browser. It supports the following features:

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    1. Single-click the bookmark to convert all links on the page + to watch: links.
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    2. Single-click it again to revert the links. (This also + happens automatically when you click a link.)
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    3. Double-click the bookmark to open the current page as a watch: + link.
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