I have an alias setup in my .bash_profile to easily download and save as .mp3 file:
> alias ymp3="youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3"
Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
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Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#152The 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.
I set this up recently (the 'Play with MPV' method) after noting that viewing YouTube in the browser had a far greater CPU usage than watching the same in mpv. I've also given gtk-youtube-viewer a spin but it doesn't do "new videos of your subscriptions" (though it's command=line equivalent 'youtube-viewer -SV' does). Any recommendations out there for similar YouTube frontends? Also, at least in the UK, youtube-dl ca…
You can use a feed reader. I have Newsboat set up with a feed that shows all my YouTube subscriptions and a macro that opens the URL from the selected item in mpv.
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#153I feel like the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl. I keep expecting Google (and all the other sites it works on) to start taking active measures to disable it. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos.
Not everyone has fast enough bandwidth to watch live videos. Many people rely on downloaders to actually watch the video.
In my case a vast majority of use is just to be able to pipe the original stream to mpv/vlc in order to reduce the cpu usage. In the past there was a clear benefit, maybe less so these days.
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#154The strength of youtube-dl is that – contradictionary to its name – there are `extractors` for almost every streaming, video, tv or radio website: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext... I always use it to rip TV or radio shows from German public stations
I keep expecting the maintainers to change the name some day... I mainly use it to archive content from Arte. I'm usually not in the +7 days cycle their website has.
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#155There's also ytdl integration in mpv[1]. The excellent open source media player. So anything you can download with ytdl you can stream in mpv. [1] https://mpv.io
MPC-BE has Youtube-dl integration aswell
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#156This 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.
mpv is using youtube-dl itself.
Which is great with twitch. Instant benefits : no chat, video decoding outside browser. On some laptops it makes a big difference.
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#157The strength of youtube-dl is that – contradictionary to its name – there are `extractors` for almost every streaming, video, tv or radio website: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext... I always use it to rip TV or radio shows from German public stations
Reminds me of XBMC - Xbox Media Centre - (since renamed to Kodi) which runs on much more than Xbox (if it even runs on Xbox any more at all...)
It's now an UWP app, so it's full circle and runs on Xbox One.
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube has the network effect just like every other big provider. You can’t ditch it unless the content you want to see has decided to move elsewhere.
Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source. If not, then Sometimes, it's as simple as asking the producer to upload to your preferred streaming endpoint.
>Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source
We don't watch "important and desirable media" in YouTube (and most of us, not anywhere else, there). What we do watch is not really available elsewhere (e.g. certain vloggers, tutorial videos, etc).
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, Could you have caked on more hyperbole? Yes, let's just let kids search the Internet and see what they come up with.
I wouldn't call it hyperbole at all once you learn about Elsagate.
Doesn't need to be elsagate level, stuff get's questionable to abusive (think unregulated child labor and unnessary emotional stress) really fast.
It's worrysome on both producer and viewer side at pre-teen ages especially.
Parenting against a hyper-engineered viewer retention (recommendation is an euphemism at this point) engine is a lost cause to begin with. Tried supervised youtube with my 3 year old for a while and it's always going places you would never expect, and not in a good way.
Even for quality content, just look what wildbrain or DHX Media?, did in terms of ad-count, to "Yo Gabba Gabba" recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YN8bUHufPk&list=PLc7QkGFtZU...
I count up 20 partly animated ad overlays plus a preroll in just 20m, who is willing to monitor that as a parent?
The core of the problem I have with the whole thing, is that YouTube prays on the weakest of the weakest, not even me. It's children of parents that simply can't afford daycare and video subscription services, that I worry about the most.
Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
#160I have an alias setup in my .bash_profile to easily download and save as .mp3 file: > alias ymp3="youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3"
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