Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by popman » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 4:35 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #21

I've been using this ever since youtube dropped flash support. Early this year youtube began throttling certain file formats and qualities. The way around this is to call youtube-dl so that it uses an external downloader like, --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-j 8 -s 8" I wrap the entire thing up in some shell script as a .bashrc function which takes a URL, touches the downloaded file (since y…

`I wrap the entire thing up in some shell script as a .bashrc function which takes a URL, touches the downloaded file (since youtube-dl saves the youtube file modified date), then opens it in vlc. '

Just install mpv, dude.

It works right out of the box, if youtube-dl is in your PATH.

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

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Post by robbrown451 » Sat, Jul 07, 2018, 3:42 AM UTC

PretzelFisch wrote: post #213

robbrown451 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another option is to embed youtube videos on your own web page (hosted locally or whatever). You don't need to download the actual videos, the ads tend to be banners (not ones that make you wait to view it). Works great for my 4 year old.

don't you still get recommended or autoplay started videos at the end of an embedded video? or is there a way to control that as well?

You can turn that off.

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

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Post by robbrown451 » Sat, Jul 07, 2018, 3:44 AM UTC

kennydude wrote: post #141

robbrown451 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another option is to embed youtube videos on your own web page (hosted locally or whatever). You don't need to download the actual videos, the ads tend to be banners (not ones that make you wait to view it). Works great for my 4 year old.

Sometimes the ads can be very inapropiate for a 4 year old. I ended up installing Adblock just for that.

Well they are only banner ads, not video ads. But I'll admit I pay $10 a month for YouTube Red (actually they just renamed it Premium), which I get my moneys worth since I don't have broadcast or cable tv or netflix.