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Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by AndrewUnmuted » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

huckyaus wrote: post #76

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #63

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Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source. If not, then Sometimes, it's as simple as asking the producer to upload to your preferred streaming endpoint.

What constitutes "important and desirable media" is extremely personal and subjective, and the producer will not always be available to respond to your request. Here's an example of something that is very important and desirable to me but doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_p2B8ReqE

Do you not realize that you've linked to a YouTube video of a recording of a vinyl record?

In your case, the vinyl record is the other source. Not to mention the other one provided by the other respondent. And a vinyl record is a great source to have -- it will last a lot longer than any other digital link to a stream of a record, if cared for properly.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by AndrewUnmuted » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:52 AM UTC

kowdermeister wrote: post #187

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #63

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Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source. If not, then Sometimes, it's as simple as asking the producer to upload to your preferred streaming endpoint.

This is not feasible for the majority of users. I follow ~360 YT channels, I desire them very much and they are not uploading it anywhere else.

Why don't you try asking them?

Nonetheless, I am sure that you could live without any of the content hosted on those YouTube channels. The word "content" is a fair terminology in this context since if any media is so pigeonholed as to demand being streamed and served from YouTube, it must not be that artistic, thoughtful, or useful to most viewers. YouTube doesn't optimize for utility, art, usefulness, tact, expression, or value. It optimizes for addiction.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by AndrewUnmuted » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 1:55 AM UTC

jorvi wrote: post #190

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #63

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Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source. If not, then Sometimes, it's as simple as asking the producer to upload to your preferred streaming endpoint.

That’s the same reasoning of ‘just ask people to use iMessage/Telegram/Signal’. Most people, whether they are producers or persons you want to talk with don’t want to deal with learning an extra platform. Don’t get me wrong, I love Telegram and YouTube not being the only player would make for a healthier market, but it just doesn’t work that way. I mean, how many people do you know that are not on WhatsApp? Its so ub…

I don't know, because I am not on Whatsapp and it's never come up with any of my friends. Nobody thinks any less of me for this, and nobody has ever asked me to get Whatsapp. Perhaps my friends are nicer than others' here, but what ever happened to respecting people's choices?

We live on the internet, a place of infinite possibilities and uses. To suggest that it is natural, convenient, and appropriate to pigeonhole our services in this manner is thoroughly antithetical.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by naikrovek » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 2:45 AM UTC

skinnymuch wrote: post #205

zacmps wrote: post #165

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You can actually download the ads with YouTube-dl... I believe it's YouTube only and still named as 'experimental', but theoretically it could be a default to appease the big G.

Do you know where to find this or if this is definitely true? I tried looking around before and YouTube-dl didn’t have any ad downloading ability. I just tried looking now and at first glance it doesn’t look like it does. Nothing in the changelog for past year either.

It can download ads. It is a command line option.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by poisonarena » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 6:09 AM UTC

jsmthrowaway wrote: post #136

poisonarena wrote: post #115

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...and specify to only grab the videos as mp3's to download that perfect song/mix playlist!

Aspiring DJs do this, then play out the files they got from youtube-dl via Serato or whatever, then every other minimally competent DJ in the room immediately knows what’s happening based on how obviously shit it sounds. Practice mixing in headphones and playing room scale PA are two different ballgames, and when amplified, any youtube-dl format is as obvious to me as a file being ripped from source vinyl. YouTube do…

whoaa .. wasn't expecting all this. I just download songs to put in my android phone for running. Though I doubt your salty words. Mostly a bunch of drunk people in a crowded party want to dance and have fun. I am sorry that you had to spend a lot of money 'buying in'. But I think the point of a DJ is to play music to a crowd, get them to have fun and dance..

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by dannyw » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 7:39 AM UTC

swebs wrote: post #212

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Those downloads get removed if the uploader deletes the video.

How does that work? Does it require giving Youtube access to your file system?

Downloads only work within the app. Videos are DRM’d and you must connect to the internet at least once every 30 days to watch.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by _blz2 » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 3:16 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #150

efiecho wrote: post #62

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> I have two monitors, so I put a button on my Firefox toolbar to launch MPV with the current URL, and configured MPV to start fullscreen on the second monitor immediately and quit when done. It's made my video-watching experience on the web an order of magnitude better. How did you do that? I would really like to have that setup also.

I used this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/ mpv can easily be configured to open full screen on a specific screen.

So adding that button requires downloading and installing a file, and it has some references to openwith@darktrojan.net. I am not a web programmer but that doesn't seem right. The open with mpv browser extension, seems cleaner. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-to-mpv-p...

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by StavrosK » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 3:22 PM UTC

_blz2 wrote: post #247

StavrosK wrote: post #150

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I used this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/ mpv can easily be configured to open full screen on a specific screen.

So adding that button requires downloading and installing a file, and it has some references to openwith@darktrojan.net. I am not a web programmer but that doesn't seem right. The open with mpv browser extension, seems cleaner. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-to-mpv-p...

Yeah, it didn't look good. The extension you posted downloads and installs the native client on its own, which is worse. However, you can't really do this any better, as the apps are sandboxed and not allowed to launch external programs.

I've audited the script for the extension I posted and it looks good, I've posted mine here: https://www.pastery.net/dyeamx/

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by _blz2 » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 3:29 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #248

_blz2 wrote: post #247

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So adding that button requires downloading and installing a file, and it has some references to openwith@darktrojan.net. I am not a web programmer but that doesn't seem right. The open with mpv browser extension, seems cleaner. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-to-mpv-p...

Yeah, it didn't look good. The extension you posted downloads and installs the native client on its own, which is worse. However, you can't really do this any better, as the apps are sandboxed and not allowed to launch external programs. I've audited the script for the extension I posted and it looks good, I've posted mine here: https://www.pastery.net/dyeamx/

yes. Seems you're right.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by popman » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 4:34 PM UTC

nachtigall wrote: post #111

The strength of youtube-dl is that – contradictionary to its name – there are `extractors` for almost every streaming, video, tv or radio website: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext... I always use it to rip TV or radio shows from German public stations

mpv (mpv.io) also has support for using it to stream videos. (play from the internet, rather than downloading)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/ is available for firefox and chrome, and lets you open URLs from the context menu. Massive time saver, as you can just right click on a link to a video, and it'll start playing in a separate media player.