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Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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Post by shiroiushi »

RGamma wrote: post #149
shiroiushi wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For providing a tool that lets people download YT videos? The same should apply to yt-dlp, but that project is hosted on github.com with no apparent problems. What's stopping the youtube-dl people from doing the same and just ignoring this silly court ruling?

The case is about downloading music or rather enabling others to do so ("Beihilfe"). GEMA really is quite terrible. What's stopping them? Dunno, (the threat of) police showing up at the door? Shitty pop songs are not worth going to prison for.

Apparently this isn't stopping the yt-dlp people.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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Post by dredmorbius »

Gormo wrote: post #147
dredmorbius wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, and you can set that directly in your mpv config: ytdl-format=bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestaudio[ext=webm]/bestaudio vo=null The advantage is that you're setting this for a utility which can play media directly (e.g., you don't have to separately download and then play content), and that you can set preferences independently for mpv vs. other tools. You can also of course configure your own aliases, shell functions,…

Yup, it's pretty great. It's worth noting, though, that ytdl can output video content to stdout, so it is possible to stream video by piping to any player, although mpv's method is much more convenient. Sometimes it is necessary to download files regardless, though, due to DASH separating audio and video into distinct files. You often need to remux them with a container like MP4, AVI, or Matroska in order to use them…

And yup back at'chya.

mpv's bonus is convenience, and the fact that it will seamlessly play much of what you throw at it, whether that's local files, network resources, web sites, etc. Much of that majyck is in fact ytdl/yt-download, but having a standard interface is quite handy.

And yes, I've run into streams that need mixing, which ytdl/yt-download can handle; you point it at both the video and audio sources, typically. (I do this infrequently, thankfully).

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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Post by vanjajaja1 »

crowdyriver wrote: post #125
vanjajaja1 wrote: post #24

> Search on Google Videos and download > $ you-get "Richard Stallman eats" I don't often read instruction manuals, but this time I did and I found this gross easter egg

oh god

'dont' was implied, though apparently not inferred

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

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Post by hot_gril »

shiroiushi wrote: post #151
RGamma wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The case is about downloading music or rather enabling others to do so ("Beihilfe"). GEMA really is quite terrible. What's stopping them? Dunno, (the threat of) police showing up at the door? Shitty pop songs are not worth going to prison for.

Apparently this isn't stopping the yt-dlp people.

Maybe they aren't German
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