Re:YouTube Red is live
by gizmo686 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:23PM
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That sounds unnecessarily complicated. You should be able to write an extension that simply bypasses the Youtube player (possibly looking at the youtube-dl source to figure out how to find the video file itself).
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"Bypass the Youtube player" is what I meant, but reasons to use as is: its interface is simple, it's maintained (this is a hack, why trouble yourself when youtube breaks things), and you won't have to read this: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/ext...