Start video in the same terminal instance?

[intmainreturnzero]

When the video starts, a new terminal is opened (I'm using mplayer with ffmpeg as my video_player). The original window only shows buffering information etc.

Can we move the existing youtube-viewer process to background and start the video in same terminal instead? That would help in saving some screen estate in tiling WMs like i3.

[gevorgyg]

Would be nice!

[ertwro]

There are scripts for that, for instance i3-swallow. An internal solution for it would be environment dependent thus making its implementation probably a headache.

Edit: if you are wondering how to use it, you can modify the configuration file youtube-viewer.conf. For instance.
in the videoplayers option:
video_player_selected => "mpv",
In the command field make sure the equivalent symlink for your system is:
cmd => "/usr/sbin/i3-swallow /usr/sbin/mpv"

[SisyphusIsntHappy]

mpv can spawn video on any window, if given the flag -wid <insert window id>
For example, mpv <filename/youtube-url> -wid $(xwininfo | awk '{if(/Window id:/) print $4}' & xdotool click 1)

This will spawn mpv on terminal itself, be careful to keep the mouse pointer inside the terminal window.