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They haven't shut down youtube-dl yet which allow downloads of only the audio track.
You can download the video as well, actually it does this by default, then strips out the audio (-x option). -k keeps the video file.
I will have to check this out when I get the chance. I was deeply saddened when YouTube killed their "Feather beta" feature which presented a super-minimal version of the site with the intention of reducing load times on slower internet connections.
I will have to check this out when I get the chance. I was deeply saddened when YouTube killed their "Feather beta" feature which presented a super-minimal version of the site with the intention of reducing load times on slower internet connections.
there's the closest thing you'll get to an official lightweight youtube site.
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Can't some video formats be concatenated? Something like this pipeline for serving the ad: cat $(select_ad_file $user) $video_file
I know ffmpeg can do that, i've never tried just using cat. An additional reason for not serving ads in the video file is that their ad clients probably want to know if someone watched it or not. By loading ad as a file associated with the ad client it's easy to verify that someone watched the ad and didn't just click out after 1s, etc.
Slightly offtopic. Is there a way to watch youtube videos across different devices while preserving video location? Use case: start watching conference videos or lectures on my phone, then move to the laptop then continue on the tablet, then back to the computer. Similarly to the way iBooks transparently preserves and syncs reading position across devices.
Use the website or first-party clients, it does that if you are logged in. (not trying to be snarky, if you tend to use 3rd party clients you might not know)
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I wouldn't have thought a minimal interface is required for YouTube. If your internet connection is too slow to handle a more detailed interface, how on earth is it going to cope with doing something like streaming video and sound?
Speaking for myself: It's not the bandwidth, it's the slow, laggy, intrusive interface that causes me problems. I can play videos just fine, but videos and a mountain of bad JS can make any of my computers crawl. Additionally, it just looks terrible. I'm here to watch a video, not look at videos that you incorrectly seem to think I'd be interested in.