I presume this is only for the occasional thing that people are afraid will disappear from youtube or is there some other reason for downloading that I'm missing?
Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the classic cat-and-mouse game. We are pretty good at it by now.
I don't know. Netflix is doing a pretty good job shutting down VPN proxying. Yes, I know there are some providers that still work... Shhhh! However, it's a lot easier for Netflix to blacklist an IP (or an entire IP range) than it is for a provider to setup a whole new proxy - likely connected via a residential ISP.
VPN connections are relatively easier to block.
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#103Little-known but very helpful feature of Youtube-dl: paste a URL to a playlist in, and it'll dutifully download every video in the playlist.
Even better: it can use a batch file with URLs
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#104I presume this is only for the occasional thing that people are afraid will disappear from youtube or is there some other reason for downloading that I'm missing?
It’s also the most reliable way to get hardware decoded YouTube on Linux.
Firefox and Chrome don’t support it last I checked, and I’m not sure if they even have GPU rendering on Linux by default.
Some players can hook into youtube-dl, so streaming is still possible.
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#105This may be my most favorite piece of software I have installed. Does what it says on the tin, nothing more nothing less. LASER-focused, I really love that about it. mpv also comes close as great software.
Going off topic, but I must be one of those weird people who prefers mplayer to mpv. When watching a video, I like not knowing how long the video is. The OSD in mpv spoils it for me. With mplayer, I can set in a config file to have OSD off by default. Couldn't figure out how to do it with mpv. I think I had a few other things in my config that isn't supported by mpv (and some where the mpv team explicitly said they w…
--no-osc will disable any OSD in mpv. osc=no in mpv.conf
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#106The most useful part of youtube-dl is that it works with mpv, so you just pass a URL on the command line and MPV just plays the video in it. I have two monitors, so I put a button on my Firefox toolbar to launch MPV with the current URL, and configured MPV to start fullscreen on the second monitor immediately and quit when done. It's made my video-watching experience on the web an order of magnitude better.
What is "mpv?"
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adding additional extractors is also trivial.
Have you got an example? I couldn't work out how to do it last time, but it's easier for me to get an Australian geoblocked site going than it is to submit a bug report and wait for someone to use a proxy.
All their extractors can be found here:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...
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#108I used to use it frequently, but nowadays I just replace “youtube.com” with “hooktube.com” in the URL.
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#109One thing I wonder is how dependant other YouTube creators are in being able to download YouTube videos so they can use it for commentary and parody. If YouTube made that significantly harder, would some creators suffer?