Playlist File | HTML Index File

[sirinath]

Provide a way to save playlist files. Since there are many formats leave it to the user on what the playlist format he / she wants.

Play lists are generally text files. So this can be specified as templates in #1896. Much similar to how the file name is generated by -o but using a few simple extensions to this functionality.

Or the template string(s) can be provided at the command line based on the playlists that need to be written similar to -o option. (An options list will be needed in case you want multiple playlist or write out other files like perhaps a Org Mode DB of downloads. Completion moving command list, etc. )

Templates for HTML index generation and some common playlists can ship by default.

[weedy]

Can we get some movement on this?
When I download twitch streams where they change the stream title on the fly it makes it hard to load the chunks in chronological order.

I would like youtube-dl to spit out a m3u or one-video-per-line-file first, and then start downloading. I could then load this into mpv after the first file is finished and mpv would just keep going concurrently with youtube-dl.