#!/bin/bash
#
# playyt
#
# plays youtube video in media player at highest open-source codec quality possible, with pre-seeking (kind of) supported
#
# by: Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen <gonX@overclocked.net
#
# depends:
# - mplayer
# - youtube-dl
# - which

# get skip parameter
if [ ! $2 ]; then
    skip=0
else
    skip=$2
fi

which mplayer || (echo "Install mplayer!" && exit 1)
which youtube-dl || (echo "Install youtube-dl!" && exit 1)

QUALITY=`youtube-dl -F "$1" | grep webm | awk '{ print $1 }'` # find highest-quality webm format

mplayer -cache 8192 -ss "$skip" $(youtube-dl -gf ${QUALITY:0:2} "$1")