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This may be my most favorite piece of software I have installed. Does what it says on the tin, nothing more nothing less. LASER-focused, I really love that about it. mpv also comes close as great software.
Going off topic, but I must be one of those weird people who prefers mplayer to mpv. When watching a video, I like not knowing how long the video is. The OSD in mpv spoils it for me. With mplayer, I can set in a config file to have OSD off by default. Couldn't figure out how to do it with mpv. I think I had a few other things in my config that isn't supported by mpv (and some where the mpv team explicitly said they w…
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…
--user-agent "" --no-mtime
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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.
Your comment made me think of a web portal for uploading videos, so the content creator uploads once, and selects what content platforms he wishes to share it with. The people behinnd the portal could have a sign-up page so that any platforms that wish to host a non-exclusive copy can sign up in order for uploaders to be able to select them as well. This could potentially cause the portal hosters (internet archive?)…
You upload your music, and they put it on the various services for a fee. Including YouTube if you select it.
Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, this is a godsend tool to archive approved channels to a local media server. This config file (with separate channel-list- and archive-files) template found here, has proven quite useful to me combined with some minimal batch job: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/858ny5/my_yout...
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.
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That would be sad, but I'll ditch Youtube for good if they'll introduce this garbage.
YouTube has the network effect just like every other big provider. You can’t ditch it unless the content you want to see has decided to move elsewhere.
1) find something I like is not released in my economy to buy as an MP3 2) find a low(ish)fi video of the original artist playing it at some awesome gig you wish you could go to with the time machine 3) use youtube-dl to dl it, then post process into an mp3 or m4a 4) enjoy listening to glenn gould humming, or keith jarrett humming, or that time the bomb landed next to the string quartet playin in london in 1940, or the one where the film clip of lena horne singing 'stormy weather' is just the perfect version...
I know that i'm outside the rules, but if they don't do something to let me pay for the IPR, but do put a video up free to air, I'm kind-of confused at this point: If I put dark glasses on, while I "watched" the youtube isn't it the same?
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YouTube has the network effect just like every other big provider. You can’t ditch it unless the content you want to see has decided to move elsewhere.
And this is why we should encourage content creators to cross publish their videos on peertube/steemit etc.
I feel like the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl. I keep expecting Google (and all the other sites it works on) to start taking active measures to disable it. At some point YouTube is going to require an EME module to play even "free" videos.
This is the classic cat-and-mouse game. We are pretty good at it by now.
Yes, I know there are some providers that still work... Shhhh!
However, it's a lot easier for Netflix to blacklist an IP (or an entire IP range) than it is for a provider to setup a whole new proxy - likely connected via a residential ISP.