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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Wrapper for mpv playing an internet video with yt-dlp that lets you select the
+# video format to download. Useful when launching e.g. YouTube videos, which
+# often have a very high resolution default format that would buffer a lot.
+# USAGE: yt-dl-choose <url>
+# Opens a dmenu menu with available audio+video formats.
+# NOTE: only displays formats that have both audio and video, which have limited
+# quality. For highest resolution, we'd also need to provide options for
+# combined formats with separate audio and video streams.
+# NOTE: when given a video in a YouTube playlist, will only play that video.
+
+NO_PLAYLIST=1
+
+if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
+    echo "USAGE: yt-dl-choose <url>"
+fi
+
+URL="$1"
+
+if [[ $NO_PLAYLIST ]]; then
+    URL=`echo "$URL" | sed -e 's/&list=.*&/\&/'` 
+fi
+
+formats=`yt-dlp --list-formats $URL \
+    | grep -v "audio only" \
+    | grep -v "video only" \
+    | grep -v mhtml \
+    | sed '0,/---------/d' `
+format=`echo "$formats" | dmenu | cut -d' ' -f1`
+
+if [ -z "$format" ]; then
+    exit 0;
+fi
+
+mpv --ytdl-format=$format $1