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document how to find out & play Youtube HLS URLs

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Sending a YouTube video URL directly to an Apple TV (3rd gen) fails.

You can let the Apple TV play an .mp4 URL just fine (and get it via youtube-dl --get-url -f format-id-here url-here), but in order to let the Apple TV choose video quality, it needs an HLS URL; This works via a periodically re-fetched .m3u8 URL containing links to video chunks in several qualities.

The problem is finding out the HLS URL of a non-live-stream Youtube video. I've tried, but failed.

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