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When I pass a link to omxplayer with youtube-dl it won't play the audio only the video. Where as playing it locally works as expected.
It doesn't show the usual Audio codec ac3 channels 6 samplerate 48000 bitspersample 16 when streaming. And to make it more odd, it can stream audio just fine.
I start omxplayer like this:
omxplayer `youtube-dl -g <youtube-url>`
Or for simplicity replace "format_id" with "best" (best: Select best quality format represented by single file with video and audio):
omxplayer `youtube-dl -g -f best <youtube-url>` # play the video
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#format-selection
best is the default, but even explicitely choosing it didn't work for me. Maybe it was/is a bug.
Turns out streams have no audio by default. I need to explicitly choose a format that includes the audio stream.
youtube-dl -F <youtube-url> # print the available formats
omxplayer `youtube-dl -g -f <format_id> <youtube-url>` # play the video