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Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by runjake »

orev wrote: post #58
shmerl wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be sad, but I'll ditch Youtube for good if they'll introduce this garbage.

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.

Or you know, reduce your perceived need for said content.

More often that not, that's the choice I make. You make it too hard or intrusive for me to see your content and I stop taking part.

And it's funny, a lot of the time when I do this, I'll see a news article pop up a week/month/year later that said content provider is adjusting its policies, seemingly indicating that others are independently making the same choices.

This has happened several times, most notably when I cancelled our Dish junk right before the big "cord cutter" boom. Stop participating if you do not like it. You will survive.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by octosphere »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #38

I 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.

But it's just like WGET[1], and last time I checked, WGET is not a crime. I even have a funny sticker on my laptop that says that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by BeetleB »

kqr wrote: post #92
BeetleB wrote: post #85

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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…

Huh, I wish I knew what you were talking about. I have used mpv for many years now, and I have no OSD while watching -- only when pausing, seeking, and otherwise interacting with it.

I should have clarified. I don't want OSD when seeking, pausing, etc. When seeking, I get a glimpse of the progress bar. That will give me an idea of how much is left.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by BeetleB »

mmozeiko wrote: post #105
BeetleB wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Doesn't work - I still get the OSD while seeking.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by ezoe »

weq wrote: post #61
EvanAnderson wrote: post #38

I 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.

12 years ago i built google video downloader as a way to help me learn C#. it took about a month after the release for google to defeat my basic scraping. I did a few iterations to circumvent their changes, and then they changed tact, and erased the project from google. they only let it back into the search results after i stopped maintaining it. https://sourceforge.net/projects/gvdownloader/files/stats/ti...

Google Do Evil I guess.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by QasimK »

crtasm wrote: post #186
QasimK wrote: post #117

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But if people didn’t talk about this, I would have have known that I could use it to watch BBC iPlayer without going through the annoying login-wall!

Very useful! Did you hear about get_iPlayer too?

No, amazing!

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by johnp_ »

BeetleB wrote: post #85
sergiotapia wrote: post #28

This 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…

How about osd-level=0 with no-osc? In my (quick) testing this works.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by gsich »

turbo_fart_box wrote: post #197
majewsky wrote: post #125

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> which will be cracked within days if not hours. Netflix requires an EME module since quite some time, and I'm not aware of any successful cracks.

You can strip HDCP from HDMI 2.2 [0] and then just capture that stream. Very easy to do. Anything that can be seen on your screen can be captured and shared. 0. https://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Splitter-Supports-Pass-through-D...

Where does it say "strip"?

>-Support HDR & HDCP 2.2 Pass-through

Which is not stripping away anything.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by dylan604 »

jsmthrowaway wrote: post #136
poisonarena wrote: post #115

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...and specify to only grab the videos as mp3's to download that perfect song/mix playlist!

Aspiring DJs do this, then play out the files they got from youtube-dl via Serato or whatever, then every other minimally competent DJ in the room immediately knows what’s happening based on how obviously shit it sounds. Practice mixing in headphones and playing room scale PA are two different ballgames, and when amplified, any youtube-dl format is as obvious to me as a file being ripped from source vinyl. YouTube do…

i don't get the downvoting for this comment. i too used to carry 70+lbs of vinyl to gigs. CDJs became a thing around the same time napster/ftp trading/etc was popular. on a multi-thousand watt sound system, i agree that the sound was atrocious and quite obvious when a compressed format was burned to CD. that bothered me on multiple levels not just the sound quality, but there was a very large chance the music was downloaded from napster/ftp/etc and not paid for from a legitimate source.

from this thread and other similar to it, it is becoming clear that a vocal segment of HN readers are not concerned with copyright.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by dredmorbius »

JackCh wrote: post #69
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #30

The elephant in the room is obviously that this is probably illegal under DMCA.

If by "elephant in the room" you mean "something nobody gives a single shit about." Seriously, why should I care? Should File->Save Page As... be considered the "elephant in the room" when Firefox is discussed?

EitR has more to do with known risks whose acknowledgement is inconvenient. It's not a matter of DGAF, but rather, ignoring in the hopes that it will go away, or the risk will fall on another.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/elephant-in-the-room.htm...

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