I've only tried one qualifier, but now it looks like it is finally working. Thanks for the pointer: I think the manual web page I read didn't make it clear how to format the different options as some start with - or -- and just assume you know the others start with / (or I'm just not reading it...
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are saying here. Perhaps I didn't explain properly, but nothing on the settings page seems relevant to this topic to me, and I already have those settings.
What I'm doing now is this (stripped down to the basics):
yt-dlp http://somethinglaythis -o -...
I'm also working on this problem. I want to read from streams, but this also works for YouTube. I use yt-dlp and pipe it to a player. The player can be VideoLAN/VLC, MPV, FFPLAY, or MPC.
This works for me:
yt-dlp --quiet --progress --ignore-errors --no-live-from-start...