Option to daemonize youtube-dl

[philiprhoades]

• I'm reporting a feature request
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.10.29
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar feature requests including closed ones

Description

There has been one mention of adding an option to daemonize youtube-dl in the past - however I am interested in this option because:

• I use newsbeuter as a text-based RSS aggregator and start watching a desired YT video by pressing "O" (capital o - not zero) as a keyboard hot-key to create the new tab in Chrome - as long as I have an existing Chrome window open, the playing of the video starts almost immediately . .
• However, I nearly always get advertisments to click through before the desired video starts playing.

BUT when I config mpv to be the newsbeuter "browser":

• There are a number of seconds delay before mpv starts playing the video

When I raised the issue on the mpv IRC (thinking it was an mpv problem), a helpful person pointed out that the delay is the time it takes to load youtube-dl and that daemonizing that program might solve my problem.

So, is adding code to youtube-dl to allow it to daemonize a possibility?

Thanks,
Phil.

[ghost]

An ad blocker like uBlock Origin can block YouTube advertisements, and I think the most time-consuming part is downloading webpage from YouTube.