For some sites, youtube-dl sends a special user-agent. If we don't send
the same user-agent, the server will reject mpv's connection attempt.
This was observed with trailers.apple.com. Fix it by forcing the
user-agent youtube-dl uses.
Some sites set cookies when doing a website access, and require the
client to provide these cookies when downloading the actual media. This
is needed at least by nicovideo.jp. Fix by adding youtube-dl's cookies
to our request headers.
Both of these require a very recent youtube-dl version (youtube-dl added
the necessary headers a few hours ago). The script still works with
older youtube-dl versions, though.
this currently uses a sketchy but apparently working workaround,
which will be removed once the neccessary changes in youtube-dl
are implemented
Fixes#1277
It's passed with the '--format' option to youtube-dl.
If it isn't set, we don't pass '--format best' so that youtube-dl can
use the options from its configuration file.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
wm4