- Pass the YouTube URL to mpv when there are no streaming URLs.

This also fixes the playing of livestreams.

Author: trizen

bin/gtk-youtube-viewer

@@ -2835,6 +2835,10 @@ sub get_player_command {
                                   escape    => 1,
                                  );
 
+    if ($streaming->{streaming}{url} =~ m{^https://www\.youtube\.com/watch\?v=}) {
+        $cmd =~ s{ --no-ytdl\b}{ }g;
+    }
+
     $has_video ? $cmd : join(' ', $cmd, quotemeta($streaming->{streaming}{url}));
 }
 

bin/youtube-viewer

@@ -3144,6 +3144,10 @@ sub get_player_command {
                                   escape    => 1,
                                  );
 
+    if ($streaming->{streaming}{url} =~ m{^https://www\.youtube\.com/watch\?v=}) {
+        $cmd =~ s{ --no-ytdl\b}{ }g;
+    }
+
     $has_video ? $cmd : join(' ', $cmd, quotemeta($streaming->{streaming}{url}));
 }
 

lib/WWW/YoutubeViewer.pm

@@ -740,6 +740,17 @@ sub get_streaming_urls {
     # Filter out streams with `clen = 0`.
     @streaming_urls = grep { defined($_->{clen}) ? ($_->{clen} > 0) : 1 } @streaming_urls;
 
+    # Return the YouTube URL when there are no streaming URLs
+    if (!@streaming_urls) {
+        push @streaming_urls,
+          {
+            itag    => 22,
+            quality => "hd720",
+            type    => "video/mp4",
+            url     => "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$videoID",
+          };
+    }
+
     return (\@streaming_urls, \@caption_urls, \%info);
 }