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Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Post by phkahler »

ac29 wrote: post #62
piyuv wrote: post #9

I’m a paying YouTube premium subscriber. Last weekend, I wanted to download something so I can watch it on my way in the train. The app got stuck at “waiting for download..” on my iPad. Same on iPhone. Restart did not work. I gave up after an hour (30 mins hands on trying stuff, 30 mins waiting for it to fix itself). Downloaded the video using yt-dlp, transferred it to my USB c flash drive, and watched it from that.…

> Awaiting their “premium cannot be shared with people outside household” policy so I can finally cancel That's been a policy for a while, the sign up page prominently says "Plan members must be in the same household". No idea if its enforced though.

I have 2 homes. Every time I "go up north" I have to switch my Netflix household and then back again when I return. This sounds like that won't even be possible.

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Post by Too »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #43
est wrote: post #16

I really appreciate the engineering effort went into this "JavaScript interpreter" https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2025.09.23/yt_dlp/jsin...

Heh, now I wonder how much JavaScript it actually interprets and given that it’s < 1000 lines, whether it could be used towards an introductory course in compilers.

There’s a famous presentation by David Beazley where he implements a WASM interpreter in Python in under an hour. Highly recommended.

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Post by diet_mtn_dew »

codedokode wrote: post #232
baxuz wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> for paying customers

YT shares income from subscriptions with music labels? I didn't hear about this, and even if they shared the download must be paid much higher than a view because after downloading a person could potentially listen for a track hundred times in a row.

Youtube premium includes Youtube Music, which is alphabet's streaming service, and I assume that they are paying the same fees as everyone else.

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Post by ndriscoll »

warkdarrior wrote: post #212
ndriscoll wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Games Done Quick has raised 10s of millions for charity. I suspect they could raise a few thousand for a few dozen TB of nvme storage if they wanted to host a speedrun archive.

YouTube get 700,000 hours of video uploaded every day . That's 4.3 PB added per day. You may need more than a few dozen TB... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/vueyb9/how_...

They don't get 700,000 hours of any particular niche though, so it's easy enough for small groups to compete with youtube for their needs.

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Post by Telaneo »

pmdr wrote: post #198
trenchpilgrim wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do. It's called YouTube Premium.

AFAIK Premium allows you to download to persistent browser storage. But is it DRM-free/open or usable format?

It's DRM-ed and somewhat broken.

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Post by jdiff »

exe34 wrote: post #242
jdiff wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accelerationism is a dead-end theory with major holes in its core. Or I should say, "their" core, because there's a million distant and mutually-incompatible varieties. Everyone likes to say "gosh, things are awful, it MUST end in collapse, and after the collapse everyone will see things MY way." They can't all be right. And yet, all of them with their varied ideas still think it'll be a good idea to actively push to…

I'm not waiting for the collapse to fix things - I'm waiting for it so that I won't have any more distractions and I can go back to my books.

As I said, there aren't any collapses like that to be had. Heaven and Earth will be moved to make the smallest change necessary to keep things flowing as they were. Banks aren't allowed to fail. Companies, despite lengthy strings of missteps and billions burned on dead ends, still remain on top.

You can step away from the world (right now, no waiting required). But the world can remain irrational longer than you can wait for it to step away from you, and pushing for more irrationality won't make a dent in that.

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Post by oybng »

random29ah wrote: post #111

It's almost funny, not to mention sad, that their player/page has been changed, filling it with tons of JS that makes less powerful machines lag. For a while now, I've been forced to change "watch?v=" to "/embed/" to watch something in 480p on an i3 Gen 4, where the same video, when downloaded, uses ~3% of the CPU. However, unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0 htt…

You are not alone. In Q1 2025 I was forced to adopt the embed player. In Q3 2025, google intentionally broke the embed player. Now the only youtube access I have is via yt-dlp. Long live yt-dlp and its developers
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