[necron2600]

I watch youtube videos on IRIX (Octane2) all the time streaming with curl, youtube-dl, and mplayer.

Browse youtube.com with firefox/links/or dillo which is not pretty in IRIX but it can get you the titles and video URL.. (or search for what you want in Google search).. and then copy the youtube URL value for the v= variable (URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEY87HAHzk as an example.. so copy 9EEY87HAHzk) with the following script that I named 'watch.sh'

watch.sh 9EEY87HAHzk

It takes several seconds to start the video as it is caching the stream, but when it starts it plays the video in a window very well.

#!/usr/nekoware/bin/bash
VIDEON=$(youtube-dl -g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1)
#curl -L "$VIDEON" | mplayer -vo fbdev2 -cache-min 40 -cache 8192 -vf scale=640:480 -
curl -L "$VIDEON" | mplayer -

Note (Note, I have mplayer using a default custom configuration of mine.. yet I have a commented out line that shows you an example setting a config in there). You may want to use something like:

curl -L "$VIDEON" | mplayer -cache 18192 -vo gl_nosw -ao sgi -framedrop -lavdopts lowres=0:fast:skiploopfilter=all -autosync 60 -audiofile-cache 10240 -

I also use mplayer-1.1.1 that was compiled by a nekochanner outside of nekoware posted on nekochan before. But the regular nekoware mplayer may work fine too.