On: Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback

[mnw21cam]

Is there anything particularly wrong with running:

  youtube-dl -q -o - 'url' | castnow /dev/stdin

[dannypgh → mnw21cam]

If it didn't work with process substitution, that's not likely to work either.

I'm guessing it is trying to seek, or running a stat first to check filesize or similar.