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Right. It should send the stream to the system video player. If you then want no window decorations or whatever you go to the video player app developers.


This pops out the <video> element, so it works on 100% of websites with one. You can use tools like youtube-dl to extract/convert a lot of websites' video to a playlist compatible with external players, but it will never have as complete coverage.


or use https://mpv.io/ which will use ytdl internally to 'just play the fkn vid from the url' kthxby




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