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Post by app4soft » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 12:51 PM UTC

arca_vorago wrote: post #88

RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #25

For some time I've been tinkering with a script which manages my own fine-grained youtube subscription preferences, periodically scrapes various pages for metadata, and then as necessary extracts videos by using the youtube-dl utility. The end result is a directory on my machine which always has a few interesting videos to watch, ad-free, tracking-free, network connection free, using my favorite full-featured video p…

If you like youtube-dl you should check out mps-youtube ( https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube ) which has the ability to use youtuble-dl as the backend I'm pretty sure (i prefer to use the native one personally) It's also gpl vs youtube-dl's public domain. I'm sure eventually I'll figure out a way to just do it in emacs. (I'm mostly joking... kinda... maybe.)

Post by rcthompson » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:35 PM UTC

iggg wrote: post #95

rcthompson wrote: post #82

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I actually have a script running on a cron job on my personal server that does approximately this. It downloads into a Syncthing folder that automatically syncs to whatever devices I might want to watch videos on. The difference is I just have a set of playlists for it to download, so I'm relying on the YouTube creators to organize their videos into appropriate playlists, which means it's not exactly "fine-grained".…

Uploads is a playlist.

Post by rcthompson » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 1:48 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #93

ehPReth wrote: post #70

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Do you have a way to ensure you get the highest quality? I do similar with cron but often get videos as they're still processing (and thus only at lower qualities). One issue is the channels I 'subscribe' to don't always output at the same resolution and frame rate.. so I can't do a simple 'is video 4k60' test.

Could you look at the upload date and wait a certain amount until the processing is more likely to be done?

Post by foobazzy » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 3:04 PM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #60

chriswarbo wrote: post #45

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youtube-dl is really cool, and supports loads of sites as well as just youtube. VLC can also play youtube URLs directly, although buffering can be annoying. There's also a Python package called "whitey" which provides an ncurses interface for searching youtube, and sending videos to e.g. mplayer or youtube-dl. If you want to "subscribe" without needing an account, every youtube channel provides an RSS feed (look in t…

VLC can also play youtube URLs directly I legitimately did not know this, thanks for the knowledge share! Can it follow playlist s of videos? There's a few video game streamers whose commentary and remarks are so funny and well written I find myself listening to them more like a podcast than watching the video, so I'm often queuing up playlists and having the background noise while doing house chores and the like

Post by ehPReth » Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 4:41 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #93

ehPReth wrote: post #70

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Do you have a way to ensure you get the highest quality? I do similar with cron but often get videos as they're still processing (and thus only at lower qualities). One issue is the channels I 'subscribe' to don't always output at the same resolution and frame rate.. so I can't do a simple 'is video 4k60' test.

Could you look at the upload date and wait a certain amount until the processing is more likely to be done?