Viewing profile — theidel

True. But as long as it's widevine you can remove DRM. So some hope. Nothing is safe. It is just a matter of time when something will be cracked.

At least there is a feature called 'discussions' coming soon to github. That should hopefully minimize the abuse of issues. But that is also due to the fact of current github. Not …

Actually I merged quite some PRs that were open or even closed. However I tested and reviewed all I can but those geoblocked ones. But most of these were verified already or I coul…

Yes that is exact one of the reasons why I created this fork. The self updater should hopefully work in a future release. To be honest I haven't dealt with that yet. But feel free …

I agree. Tho my main intention was backwards compatibility so that changes can easily be merged back into main project. There are also lots of people using it in their python proje…

I wrote an email to all three core maintainers (one of them even twice) and to some of the inactive maintainers. There was no reply at all. However one reacted on github where I ad…

I second that. But yes you are right it's my fault that I haven't done that already. Be assured that I will include some information regarding what you said in the readme.

Nope. Maybe there is someone with a fix which can be merged. So far most people filter formats to their needs but that's not an option for basic users I guess..

Yes it's stressing and time demanding. But you are absolutely right about how the maintainers treat other people. At least it is open source. There are quite some closed-source pro…

there are actually quite a few that uses youtube-dl. So far I don't know if anyone uses youtube-dlc. But I already got two messages that they want to build a webapp/service using y…

Yes that is a good point. The architecture is not fully suited to the current situation. There is actually already a base structure so it would only need the plugin system which pu…

This is something I was going to address but wasn't my main focus in the beginning. But I made another write-up on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ir8ic6/youtu…