YTDLP_PROXY routes every yt-dlp call — search, metadata and the audio
stream, for YouTube and SoundCloud alike — through an http(s) or SOCKS
proxy such as a local Psiphon. Startup logs which proxy is in use with
any credentials stripped.
ffmpeg has no SOCKS support, so with a proxy configured playback always
goes through the yt-dlp pipe instead of a resolved CDN URL: nothing
escapes past the proxy, at the cost of slower seeking. Direct links keep
using ffmpeg, which gets the proxy only when it speaks http(s).
Verified against a dead proxy: requests fail through it rather than
quietly going direct.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Leonid PershinandClaude Opus 5
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