Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f...
by Ruthalas on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:15PM
(#28330428)
If you feel like chatting with others who also archive YouTube content, consider stopping by my discord server: https://discord.gg/xjj538vD
We maintain a central list [1] of content that various members have archived, such that when content is removed from YouTube, people can direct inquiries to contributors who have archived that content.
It's a small way to keep track of what things have been successfully archived, and occasionally direct efforts to preserve specific content.
Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f...
by nsomaru on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:15AM
(#28325732)
What is your workflow for this?
Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f...
by hansel_der on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:36AM
(#28326144)
this effectively extracts media urls from the current page, puts them into a m3u file and let's you open it with any application https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/
mpv itself uses ytdl (or others) for accessing streming sites and will buffer the whole vid if you crank up cache settings like:
cache=yes
demuxer-max-bytes=5G
demuxer-max-back-bytes=5G
prefetch-playlist=yes
force-seekable=yes
1. I download whole channels if there's a series I want to watch.
2. I download music, since youtube is a really quite nice music library.
3. I download long videos before I watch it, because it's just more pleasant to rewind the thing when it's already on your SSD. Also, it won't freeze spoiling a beautiful scene because of some stupid WiFi problem.
4. Even if I don't download it before watching, I still use mpv to watch it, which uses youtube-dl internally, because mpv is a much nicer video-player than what you can have in a browser.
And I'm sure I forgot some important use-cases. Browsers are evil, js-apps are stupid, don't use them, if you can.