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

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Post by closetkantian »

samrus wrote: post #209
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.

This is not correct. Look at steam, PC gamers overwhelmingly choosing paid DRM controlled games over free piracy, even for small indie games that have basically no protections Ill say again what gabe newell said. Piracy isnt a price problem, but a service issue. Its convenient, if you can make a legit way to get the product thats as convenient for the user as piracy, then they will pay for it

Yup. Just look at Spotify for an example. Almost no one uses Napster or anything like it anymore

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

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Post by littlestymaar »

999900000999 wrote: post #238
littlestymaar wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, unfortunately, and DRMs are still legal. Which is a shame given that we have to pay a tax to the copyright industry whenever we buy a storage media (be it an SD card or an HDD) in exchange for this right… What I mean is that there's no legal reason for Youtube to prevent downloading their videos (they can't be sued by IP holders for providing a download link for that matter).

So does that mean if you watch Netflix in Canada or France you can send a letter requesting a copy of their media ? It seems like a good idea, Bojack Horseman is probably going to be taken down at some point, but enforcement remains elusive.

You can send them a letter, and they can comply without infringing any agreement made with the copyright holder, but they don't have to.

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

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Post by scosman »

scosman wrote: post #212

Potentially dumb question: if YouTube.js works in browser - can/has someone made a YouTube player that’s just a static page? Is there a need for a backend?

To answer my own question: "To use YouTube.js in the browser, you must proxy requests through your own server"

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Post by [deleted] »

Arainach wrote: post #239
Dylan16807 wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What is an "ad" While the line is fuzzy, there's definitely a line. For example, when a video cuts away from the content to talk about a sponsor that's a clear ad. > how would you expect any company to remove in-video "ads" without rampant accusations of censorship? Removing would be somewhat difficult. Banning would not be complicated. Companies word those kinds of agreements all the time. > If a channel posts a r…

HN is such a weird place. "Free speech" libertarianism when it comes to companies restricting hate speech on their platforms while simultaneously advocating for companies to ban sponsored content.

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

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Post by jjulius »

Arainach wrote: post #239
Dylan16807 wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What is an "ad" While the line is fuzzy, there's definitely a line. For example, when a video cuts away from the content to talk about a sponsor that's a clear ad. > how would you expect any company to remove in-video "ads" without rampant accusations of censorship? Removing would be somewhat difficult. Banning would not be complicated. Companies word those kinds of agreements all the time. > If a channel posts a r…

HN is such a weird place. "Free speech" libertarianism when it comes to companies restricting hate speech on their platforms while simultaneously advocating for companies to ban sponsored content.

Sounds like you're hearing one user express one opinion, another user express a different opinion, and are trying to distill them into a singular "HN" opinion.

I don't think it works that way.

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Post by modmodmod »

scosman wrote: post #212

Potentially dumb question: if YouTube.js works in browser - can/has someone made a YouTube player that’s just a static page? Is there a need for a backend?

hey scosman, let me give it a try: I don't really know if it could work, but I have a feeling it won't work mainly due to CORS (regardless if the app is served from http or file protocol) in the browser

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

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Post by jfim »

modmodmod wrote: post #232
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…

tried to find a solution for your 3rd point, would love to get your feedback

That works, it makes it possible to watch the video now. :-)

The only thing that had me stumped was that to add a subscription one needs to press enter, I don't recall if that was the behavior before.

Appreciate all the changes!

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Post by benkaiser »

jdpedrie wrote: post #72
jv22222 wrote: post #70

This is monetizable for parents (or at least, highly needed). YouTube is terrible for child behavior as there are so many pranks and people screaming etc (in kids content) but there are a select few YouTubers who are really good for kids. For example our 10yo does well with: ZebraGamer, Half Asleep Chris, Mark Rober, Brick Experiment Channel, Ants Canada, etc. We have it locked down via safe app but it would be great…

What is “safe app”? Too generic to be googleable.

On this same topic, I just launched an app that lets you use your offline videos in an interface that is easy to use for kids.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaiserapps...

I stuck to a one-off payment, rather than the garbage subscription models all the other parenting apps use.

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

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Post by dockerd »

shekhargulati wrote: post #169

We built Videocrawl [1] to enhance the learning and watching experience using LLMs. It handles the usual tasks like clean transcript extraction, summarization, and chat-based interaction with videos. However, we go a step further by analyzing frames to extract code snippets, references, sources, and more. You can try it out by watching a video on Videocrawl, such as the OpenAI Agent video, by following this link [2].…

How many active users do you have?
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