When you stream you’re still downloading. I prefer to have finer grain control over my buffer zone for when I’m offline.

I use RSSHub to generate feeds for my subscriptions, then use this trick on Thunderbird to open video links directly with yt-dlp.

I use LocalSend to move the videos (and other files) to VLC.

VLC player

I have a system involving multiple devices. I download the videos with yt-dlp on my computer, then send them to my phone for mobile watching.