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Re:A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl ... by lifeslikethis on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:05AM (#29066187)
Ever since youtube-dl was removed from Github, it seems like they gave up on the project.
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Re:A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl ... by kzrdude on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:24AM (#29066357)
youtube-dl works right now, so not sure if this is a fair thing to say. But you might have more insight than me. Maybe they realized that becoming a famous project is only a detriment to their mission
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Re:A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl ... by MrGilbert on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:40AM (#29066514)
Someone mailed the maintainer, and received a reply that he currently has "[..] no free time to spend on youtube-dl as I'm busy with work, ongoing renovation and other post-relocation stuff." [1]

[1]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29965#issuecom...

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Re:A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl ... by tehwebguy on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:42PM (#29069226)
Not sure if this is something that affects yt-dlp but youtube-dl takes something like 5 - 10 x as long as watching the video for me now.
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Re:A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular YouTube-dl ... by EarlKing on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:31PM (#29069968)
It works only as long as you don't care how long it takes to download a video. youtube-dl has had a problem with bandwidth throttling on Youtube for some time now. yt-dlp does not.
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