yt is a command-line front-end to YouTube which allows you to browse YouTube videos and play them directly from the command-line. It uses youtube-dl and mplayer, omxplayer, or mpv to actually play the videos.

The combination of a text based interface and omxplayer makes yt a great YouTube client for the Raspberry Pi.

Launch using mplayer with:

yt

or, if you're using a Raspberry Pi, using omxplayer:

pi-yt

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
# Ensure using latest version of youtube-dl to keep up with YouTube API changes
sudo youtube-dl -U

# Install from PyPi
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install whitey

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
# Ensure using latest version of youtube-dl to keep up with YouTube API changes
sudo youtube-dl -U

# Install from GitHub
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
git clone https://github.com/rjw57/yt.git
cd yt
sudo python setup.py install

curl -L https://github.com/rjw57/yt/raw/master/tools/install-pi.sh | sh

Any of

• youtube-dl and mplayer
• youtube-dl and omxplayer
• mpv (which uses libquvi)

Make sure you have the latest version of youtube-dl. youtube-dl has a self update mechanism:

sudo youtube-dl -U

For high quality videos the default memory allocation on the Raspberry Pi doesn't provide enough memory to the GPU.

The default 192M ARM, 64M GPU split can be changed to a 128M ARM, 128M GPU split using raspi-config.

sudo raspi-config
# Select memory-split
# Allocate 128M to the GPU

See http://elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup for more information.

See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl and https://github.com/huceke/omxplayer for more detailed help.

• Rich Wareham

  • Created yt.

• Calum J. Eadie

  • Added OMXPlayer support and pi-yt entry point.

• Distribute
• Buildout
• modern-package-template
• youtube-dl
• mplayer
• Omxplayer
• Mark Baldridges's "HOWTO: YouTube on the Raspberry Pi - sans X)"