which kinda sucks, as this requires downloading the entire video before you can watch, so you cannot decide _not_ to watch it quickly (it takes at least the time to download, which, if the video is long, might take a while).
A while ago, I found the need to stream directly from yt-dlp instead of downloading full videos[1]. You can have yt-dlp write to stdout and pipe that stream into your player of choice.
oh sure, you can stream too if you want but I generally queue up a lot of videos so the latency doesn't bother me, and I appreciate the lack of latency when seeking
