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Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by skinkestek »

f1refly wrote: post #200
skinkestek wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Solution: a report ad button for Premium subscribers. Once a significant (number && percentage) of users report it kt is flagged, - first to the creator - and then shortly afterwards - if the creator does not either fix it or verify it - to a review team or even to a customer panel Some logic can be applied to filter out abuses of the system by: - looking for reports by new viewers of this channel (brigading) - dismi…

Why not just use the original sponsorskip at that point?

Im not against sponsorskip.

I'm just pointing out that this should be the job of the premium team at YouTube, not left to subscribers.

so:

- Sponsorskip is a good solution to a problem that shouldn't exist

- If YouTube cared they could make this an even better experience and make sure both honest producers, paying customers and sponsors got a better deal. Today the revenue maximizing play seems to be to add sponsors on top of premium and hope advertisers doesn't realize they are being skipped.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by pwdisswordfish8 »

jrm4 wrote: post #31

Love it. The question, especially for the folks around here. When Github eventually takes a stronger stand against this sort of thing, because it is 100% going to happen, are folks going to properly fight it?

Against forking an inactive project? Why?

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by dpacmittal »

Tistron wrote: post #64

For me, something like this is exactly where Deno would shine. I could just run `deno run --allow-net=YouTube.com --allow-write=.` and not worry about that it could do anything dangerous. Probably the url list would be a bit more complicated, but I could also just blanket allow net without worrying, since allow-read isn't needed.

While it's great that Deno is sandboxing code, but I feel like this should be a part of the OS and not the language.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by pabs3 »

nebula8804 wrote: post #32

Thanks for this post! First I am hearing about this fork! Darn...unfortunately still can't download Joe Rogan Spotify. Guess they haven't found a way around the widevine encryption...(Right now it seems like only a few podcasts are encrypted so other Spotify streams work)

I wonder if it would work with this:

https://github.com/cryptonek/widevine-l3-decryptor

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by Bellamy »

I pay for YouTube premium, but this beautiful piece of software automatically strips out the commercials from the videos and it seems I can download any video from YouTube even without logging in. My question is the following:

What is benefit of setting my credentials to the config file?

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by ObscureScience »

Bellamy wrote: post #205

I pay for YouTube premium, but this beautiful piece of software automatically strips out the commercials from the videos and it seems I can download any video from YouTube even without logging in. My question is the following: What is benefit of setting my credentials to the config file?

From the description I understood it as better quality audio stream.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by Arnavion »

aero-glide2 wrote: post #176
joshspankit wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HDCP is one method, as are the “safeguards” built in to the audio and video APIs on macOS (to protect them from losing revenue by recording iTunes Music (before they removed DRM) or screen capturing new movies (thus threatening the contracts with Hollywood).

The OS prevents you from screen recording when a new movie is playing? You can still use a third party tool to screen record right?

>The OS prevents you from screen recording when a new movie is playing?

Yes.

>You can still use a third party tool to screen record right?

The third-party tool is as stymied by the OS / video driver's API for screen capture as the first-party tool.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by kadoban »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #196
kadoban wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just throw some money at their patreon, or buy some merch? Fairly sure they'll get more of that anyway.

I'd be willing to pay 5€/mo for ad less youtube. That can't be achieved by patreon in any shape or form and youtuber merch is pretty cringe.

Then throw 5 pounds at a rotating list of whoever you like's patreon and install an adblocker.

Merch, it depends. I've grabbed some tshirts here and there that are comfy and not branded all to hell, couple of random knick knacks. A lot of it is indeed not appealing, so I mostly just send money.

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by thinkloop »

fsckboy wrote: post #181
path411 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have YouTube premium? If not consider at some point, someone has to give the channel revenue stream or the channel will die

> Do you have YouTube premium? ... someone has to give the channel revenue stream doesn't youtube premium give GOOGLE a revenue stream?

YouTube premium sends money to creators as people watch their videos. According to a redditor [1], CGP Grey (a prominent youtuber) claims to get more money from premium users than ads.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/comments/8s1b70/does_y...

Re: Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

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Post by grapist420 »

azinman2 wrote: post #27
banana_giraffe wrote: post #11

One of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos. Edit: Correct typo

Are the sponsor parts really so bad? To me not only is it easy to skip, I want indie people to make enough money to produce high quality content; otherwise media is just what a few biggies want to fund. They’re not enough from YouTube itself unless you’re in the top percentile. Also what sponsored content are people downloading versus just streaming live? I don’t get the use case.

I’m not gonna buy your headphones or VPN or “online course”, and I skip over them whenever possible. So no point in seeing them.
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