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You can try Youtube-Dl - also gives you adfree and offline. :-) https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
by Nux 11y ago
You can try Youtube-Dl - also gives you adfree and offline. :-)
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
- ics 11y agoSomeone could (I think) write an extension to prefetch Youtube video links, download with youtube-dl to /tmp, and then re-embed the local file when you visit the page. Could be tuned to waste less space or use AWS for quicker download speed.
- gizmo686 11y agoThat 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).
- ics 11y ago"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/extractor/youtube.py https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/ext...
- Tiksi 11y agoThere's a greasemonkey script that replaces the video with a local player/html5/video plugin: http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en I use it with the mpv option and mozplugger. It seems to work quite well.
- chimeracoder 11y agoVLC also plays Youtube videos. You can either open them with CTRL + N, or just launch it with $ vlc https://youtube.com/foo/bar/
- kyzyl 11y agoWell, if we're going to get our music via 'alternative' methods, I'd just cut to the chase and use What.Cd (or another tracker).