manpage: document ytdl://

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either aliases to documented protocols, or are just redirections to
protocols implemented and documented in FFmpeg.
``ytdl://...``
By default, the youtube-dl hook script (enabled by default for mpv CLI)
only looks at http URLs. Prefixing an URL with ``ytdl://`` forces it to
be always processed by the script. This can also be used to invoke special
youtube-dl functionality like playing a video by ID or invoking search.
Keep in mind that you can't pass youtube-dl command line options by this,
and you have to use ``--ytdl-raw-options`` instead.
``-``
Play data from stdin.