YoutubeOnTV
Watch YouTube videos on in-game TVs! Adds terminal commands to control video playback on ship TVs. Synced for all players.
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YoutubeOnTV
Tired of scavenging while your ship's TV plays the same boring broadcast? Spice up your doomed space expeditions by streaming YouTube videos on the company-issued television!
Nothing says "professional employee" quite like watching cat videos while your crewmates are getting eaten by monsters outside.
What does this mod do?
Simple: it turns your ship's TV into a YouTube player. Queue up videos, rickroll your friends, or watch cooking tutorials while the quota looms over your head. All players see the same content in perfect sync, because shared trauma is better trauma.
Features:
- Stream YouTube videos directly to the in-game TV
- Add videos by URL, video ID, or just search by name
- Queue system so the content never stops (unlike your paychecks)
- Everyone sees the same thing - full multiplayer sync
- When all else fails, there's a fallback video (you'll see)
Installation
Use r2modman or Mod Manager:
- Search for "YoutubeOnTV"
- Click "Install"
- Launch the game
- That's it!
The mod automatically downloads what it needs (yt-dlp and ffmpeg) on first run.
How to use
Open the terminal on your ship and type these commands:
tv add
Add a video to the queue. You can use:
- Full YouTube URL: tv add
- Just the video ID: tv add dQw4w9WgXcQ
- Search by name: tv add never gonna give you up
tv queue
See what's coming up next
tv skip
Skip to the next video (when your friend's music taste is questionable)
tv clear
Empty the entire queue (emergency use only)
Example
tv add dQw4w9WgXcQ
Added to queue: youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
tv add subway surfers gameplay
Added to queue: search: subway surfers gameplay
tv queue
Now playing: youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Videos in queue: 1
- search: subway surfers gameplay
tv skip
Skipped the current video.
Important Notes
- Videos are downloaded before they play (480p H.264, a few seconds for a typical music video). The next video in the queue downloads while the current one plays, so it starts right away.
- The first launch downloads yt-dlp and ffmpeg (about 70 MB together) into the plugin folder. yt-dlp keeps itself up to date.
- Every player downloads the video themselves and follows the host's position, so everyone sees the same thing.
- Downloaded videos are cached in the plugin folder (1 GB by default, oldest removed first).
- Don't run this together with TVLoader: both take over the ship TV.
Configuration
BepInEx/config/com.roandegraaf.youtubeontv.cfg:
- MaxVideoMinutes (default 60): longest video that can be queued
- MaxCacheMegabytes (default 1024): size of the video cache
- PrefetchNextVideo (default on): download the next queued video while the current one plays
Credits
Mod by roandegraaf
Built with YoutubeDLSharp and yt-dlp
Now get back to work. The Company is watching.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: