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This is obviously a typo. Which can't be said about deliberately inserting an apostrophe into a word
You assume it is deliberate. It's more likely that it was a simple mistake.
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yt-dlp is not even necessary. If just downloading videos from YouTube this can be done with much less code and complexity. I use a tiny C program to do it. Tiny shell scripts work just as well. What no one is discussing is that yt-dlp can no longer download itag 22 and itag 18 is now throttled.^1 This means yt-dlp has to download an audio file and a video file and use ffmpeg to merge the two. YouTube ad revenue just…
> yt-dlp is not even necessary. If just downloading videos from YouTube this can be done with much less code and complexity. I use a tiny C program to do it. Tiny shell scripts work just as well. yt-dlp is not necessary ... if you write a replacement? Ok. Besides I doubt simple shell scripts will be able to download all videos that yt-dlp can. YouTube does not use the same protections for all videos.
You are free to doubt but the the truth is yes they can.
The only ones that are complicated are commercial videos.
Give me a list of videos you are downloading with yt-dlp and I will show you how to dowload the same videos without yt-dlp. I have been doing so for many years. Unless you are only downloading commercial videos, e.g., VEVO crap. Personally I am not interested in those videos.
I am actually liking this YouTube change getting rid of or throttling video with pre-muxed audio. Now I download only the audio. If I like it, then I download the video and mux. For many videos, there is no meaningful video; it is just slideshows of images or animations. For me, audio-only is faster and more space-efficient. I am avoiding downloading many videos because in many cases the audio is enough.