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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 colethedj »

aexl wrote: post #158
polote wrote: post #18

Why don't they split youtube-dl in two parts: - The extractors part (all the scrappers basically) - The cli tool What would be wonderful is that the extractors part is splitted out, so that anyone can use it without using youtube-dl. That would be much easier to update it too, each extractor is independent, so it is only a question, does this scrapper (extractor) works or not. The next step would be to have a multi-l…

I have proposed this some years ago ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/14646 ), but it didn't get much attention from the maintainers. It has been previously rejected in 2013 already ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/1185 ).

yt-dlp does support "3rd party extractors" (in the form of plugins): https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#plugins

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

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Post by epse »

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?

It gives a very significant cut to the creators, based on how much you ask them

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

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Post by thinkloop »

wpietri wrote: post #167
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.

Exactly. Personally I am done with indirect funding models where people burn my time and attention in hopes of getting me to waste enough money on something that surplus cash can be skimmed to pay for the original content. It's ridiculous. Direct payment or GTFO. And I'm putting my money where my mouth is. My Patreon bill was $150 this month. And that's not counting direct payments to creators.

I love this, but that means you are now paying 3 times: ads/premium, sponsored messages, and patreon. Even if you block ads - as well as the much more complicated sponsored messages - you are still paying by having to manage that system and work around its edge cases. Direct "donation" should include ad-free and sponosor-free access to videos.

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

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Post by database64128 »

I just updated my youtube-dl GUI to support yt-dlp.

https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf

Currently it's WPF based and therefore only supports Windows. I'm considering porting it to Avalonia so I can also use it on my Linux desktop.

The reason I made this GUI is mostly for manual format selection. The automatic 'bestvideo+bestaudio/best' doesn't always result in the best format combination. So I always select AV1 + Opus manually and use the WebM container. The GUI also includes some opinionated defaults like embedding metadata, thumbnail, subtitles.

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

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Post by epse »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #180
willow-x wrote: post #153

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If you pay for YouTube Premium, the creators of monetized videos you watch get paid an order of magnitude more than with just YouTube ads.

"order of magnitude" implies 10x. That's great news for small / independent creators! Can someone point me to a source for this information?

It's hard to compare apples to apples, as ad revenue is based on amount of ads shown and your premium subscription is divvied up among your most watched creators based on watchtime [1]

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7060016?hl=en

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

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Post by ElCapitanMarkla »

path411 wrote: post #146
lawl wrote: post #42

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> 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. In my experience, it's the same with ads everywhere else. It (usually) starts out not being overly obnoxious, with just a "this video is sponsored by [garbage tier mobile game/earphones/vpn/whatever] more about them…

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

I’ve got YouTube premium but I’ve noticed more and more channels breaking mid video to go into ad mode. Ordinary Sausage has been a too channel with the kids but jeez the last few videos there are nearly more ad than content.

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

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Post by _arvin »

_yoqn wrote: post #68
_arvin wrote: post #61

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Don’t tell people what to do. People don’t watch JRE for Joe (mostly), but for more his guests. Not only that, Joe is great and you’re a hater. Try harder. He’s not perfect but you likely sure aren’t either. Rogan podcast is fine and I recommend it.

> Try harder. See my response to nebula8804

My comment got 3 downvotes. I'm devastated. I'm not looking at your comment. Not interested.

I have formed an already solid opinion on Joe Rogan. I'm 35 years old, I don't you to help me form it.

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

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Post by boomboomsubban »

krick wrote: post #126

I know it sounds incredibly picky, but given it's supposed to be a drop-in youtube-dl replacement, it's quite annoying to suddenly change the name to something as hard to remember as yt-dlp instead of, say, youtube-dlp. I will be mixing it up every time I'll google it, I guess. Not to mention it messes with naming scheme of bash scripts and aliases I already have.

I've switched very recently, but searching "youtube-dlp" still got me the answer I was looking for. I will admit I've typed "you [tab]" and gotten confused why it wasn't working almost every time so far, but I imagine that'll change in under a week.

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

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Post by _arvin »

_yoqn wrote: post #68
_arvin wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t tell people what to do. People don’t watch JRE for Joe (mostly), but for more his guests. Not only that, Joe is great and you’re a hater. Try harder. He’s not perfect but you likely sure aren’t either. Rogan podcast is fine and I recommend it.

> Try harder. See my response to nebula8804

Oh no. Another downvote. Devastated. Make it stop.

This upvote/downvote system is broken. Flawed system. Have fun, mods.

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

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Post by _arvin »

_yoqn wrote: post #68
_arvin wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t tell people what to do. People don’t watch JRE for Joe (mostly), but for more his guests. Not only that, Joe is great and you’re a hater. Try harder. He’s not perfect but you likely sure aren’t either. Rogan podcast is fine and I recommend it.

> Try harder. See my response to nebula8804

I beg you. Stop. Who's flagging this stuff? What am I saying that's terrible wrong? Nice censorship, HN.
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