Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

171–180 of 259 posts

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

#171

Post by jfim »

That's pretty great, just tried it. I'd have a few feature requests:

- Make it possible to delete downloaded videos

- Show more than just a few weeks worth of videos per channel. For example, if I look at @AndrejKarpathy I only see his latest two videos.

- Have a way to view a video at a reasonable size in between the small preview and full screen

- Add a way to download a single video without subscribing to a channel

Thanks for making it a Docker image, it's super easy to get it working with Docker compose!

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

#172

Post by Mindwipe »

chii wrote: post #149
Gigachad wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.

netflix (initially at least), spotify and steam have all shown that it's not a money problem, but a service problem. Good services will not get pirated.

What?

Literally all those services have piracy problems, and pretty much any time piracy drops it's because of more effective DRM, not service.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

#173

Post by modmodmod »

jfim wrote: post #171

That's pretty great, just tried it. I'd have a few feature requests: - Make it possible to delete downloaded videos - Show more than just a few weeks worth of videos per channel. For example, if I look at @AndrejKarpathy I only see his latest two videos. - Have a way to view a video at a reasonable size in between the small preview and full screen - Add a way to download a single video without subscribing to a channe…

Thanks for the feedback! Some of the new additions are already wip :)

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

#175

Post by mrmattyboy »

WD-42 wrote: post #144
999900000999 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how so many of the Chinese social media platforms just let you download videos The rate things are going I’ll just have to use those sites instead. YouTube is a weird position. A lot of content is public domain and should be freely downloaded. Other content isn’t. A good middle ground would be for YouTube to just give uploaders an option to enable downloads. I do agree that people need to STOP trying to make yt-dl…

Us not having the right seems a little extreme. What if I close my eyes and block my ears during evey ad? Do I not have the right to use YouTube then?

I would say yes and no (leaning on the no)...

I think saying you don't have a right is fine... they are providing a service and dictating it's usage and you are using it.

So on the "closing your eyes". On one side, yes, allowing your browser to play the video and YT then being able to treat as a advert view means that youtube gets paid and the creator gets paid.

However... I would personally view this as can a person do this and how it works as a generalisation and I would say "no", because if everyone did this (why does just one person have the right to close their eyes), then (at least I'd imagine) the companies paying for advertising would see a drop in click-throughs and (I don't know what you call it.. but let's just say) more money. They'd then stop paying for adverts. Then no companies would want to pay for adverts and YT is no longer profitable (to YT or the creators).

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

#176

Post by arcosdev »

phantomathkg wrote: post #152
jjulius wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You said it yourself - it'd be nice if YouTube stopped and thought about what it could be doing differently to not drive as many people towards things like this. As I said elsewhere, the root cause isn't the people developing these frontends, it's the fact that the existing official frontend leaves users wanting something else.

To do that we literally need shareholder not chasing money and pushing Alphabet pushing the Youtube team for higher and higher profit margin.

The sad root of all things.

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

#177

Post by [deleted] »

chii wrote: post #149
Gigachad wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.

netflix (initially at least), spotify and steam have all shown that it's not a money problem, but a service problem. Good services will not get pirated.

[deleted]

Re: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

#179

Post by msravi »

WD-42 wrote: post #144
999900000999 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how so many of the Chinese social media platforms just let you download videos The rate things are going I’ll just have to use those sites instead. YouTube is a weird position. A lot of content is public domain and should be freely downloaded. Other content isn’t. A good middle ground would be for YouTube to just give uploaders an option to enable downloads. I do agree that people need to STOP trying to make yt-dl…

Us not having the right seems a little extreme. What if I close my eyes and block my ears during evey ad? Do I not have the right to use YouTube then?

Maybe they'll come up with a solution that requires you to turn on your camera while on youtube so that they can detect if you have your eyes and ears unblocked during ads. Blocked-eyes-blocked-ears detected = popup that pauses the video and asks you to unblock before continuing.
Post reply on HN