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really random / specific question about alternate youtube frontends... do any support multiple videos at once? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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asking for the boy i'm in love with... he's been enjoying the CCTV view of four ambient / background yt vids at once, but tonight yt started asking him to sign in to confirm he's not a bot and effectively blocking him from using them (it works for him on yt proper bc he's signed in, but not through the sites that allow. multiple vids)

i'm not sure an alternative frontend would help, but i figured i'd ask if any of them had support for multiple videos? i think the proper solution will just to get him on a VPN but i figured i'd ask

asked here because i wasn't sure where else would be appropriate 😅 thanks in advance

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Idea:

  1. download the videos to your computer with yt-dlp
  2. Open up 4 videos at once with a local video player app that opens videos individually by window 3a. Resize each window into quadrants for the monitor 3b. Get four monitors and stack them in quadrants 4 success!

MPV/SMTube has a yt-dlp plugin that works but needs to be recent versions of both player and yt-dlp to work right.

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