mpv with bestaudio/bestvideo

mpv-best.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

URL = ARGV.first || raise("Missing video URL")

audio = IO.popen(["youtube-dl", "-f", "bestaudio", "-g", URL])
video = IO.popen(["youtube-dl", "-f", "bestvideo", "-g", URL])
title = IO.popen(["youtube-dl", "-e", URL])

audio_url = audio.read.chomp
video_url = video.read.chomp
window_title = title.read.chomp

[audio, video, title].each {|cmd| Process.waitpid(cmd.pid) }

puts "\033[1m#{window_title}\033[m"

exec(
  "mpv",
  "--no-ytdl",
  "--cache-secs=45",
  "--title", window_title,
  "--audio-file=#{audio_url}",
  video_url
)

mpv-yt-best.sh

alias mpv-yt-bests='mpv --cache-secs=45 --ytdl-format=bestvideo+bestaudio'