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Alex DeLorenzo
Personal blog · alexdelorenzo.dev · on HN as this_machineprogrammingsystems
Alex DeLorenzo's personal blog at alexdelorenzo.dev covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most-linked posts?
- Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-29
What Hacker News says?
I use youtube-dl to improve YouTube video playback on older Chromecasts[1]. [1] https://alexdelorenzo.dev/linux/2020/03/14/pipes
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on “How journalists use youtube-dl”Submitted Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback as a story · 174 points
HN discussionWhile you have chromecast_mpris running, you can use an MPRIS client to issue the OpenUri method[1]. Here's an example: $ export URL="http://ccmixter.org/content/gmz/gmz_-_Parametaphoriquement.mp3" $ playerctl -p My_Chromecast open "$URL" This will cast a song to the Chromecast named "My_Chromecast". I forgot that OpenUri was implemented in the project because I typically cast from other devices and programs, but I'…
Comment linking /linux/2020/03/14/pipes
on “Show HN: Control Chromecasts from Linux”Submitted Toll-Free Bridging in Kotlin Native as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot necessarily. 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. [1] "Using Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback": https://alexdelorenzo.dev/linux/2020/03/14/pipes
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on “Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers”Submitted Optimization with NumPy and Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toll-Free Bridging in Kotlin Native as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NFS Authentication and Encryption via WireGuard as a story · 1 points
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