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 - **use_xsel** is a patch that reduces the latency of clipboard transactions, making it smoother while properly managing the memory.	<br>
   xsel has been around since 2001, and it's stable and has less dependencies than xclip, not to mentionn the compelling group of devs.
 
+how to use:
 
+download the patch file to the base directory of mpvacious, which may be ```~/.config/mpv/scripts/sub2srs/``` <br>
+and run the following command:
+``` shell
+$ patch -p1 < use_xsel.patch 
+```
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