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I've never seen Youtube not drop frames. Best it seems to be able to do is about 1 dropped frame per second, regardless of OS and browser. It also seems to almo

I've never seen Youtube not drop frames. Best it seems to be able to do is about 1 dropped frame per second, regardless of OS and browser. It also seems to almost always use codecs which require CPU decoding, which is obviously terrible for power efficiency (though it might save them a little bit in bandwidth I guess). I don't watch long videos on YT for this reason, I download them and use a real video player, which can play video without dropping frames at 2 % CPU. This also gives me my mandatory archival copy, as interesting things are often deleted or channels deleted / terminated.

MaxikCZ 5y ago
It would be nice if some addon would intercept video page opening, initiated background download via youtube-dl, and plopped VLC window running the video (as it's downloading) inserted into the page. I would pay for that
- Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
  This was possible before WebExtension. Unfortunately, it is not possible now. And your suggestion is a security nightmare as it could download malicious code that masked as video automatically. My current setup is Video DownloadHelper + JDownloader 2. I have VDH set to copy the direct URL of the video only. And JD2 will detect the video url via clipboard monitoring and will prompt to download the video. I believe it is still possible to do it in PaleMoon and WaterFox (fork of Firefox). They still uses XUL which it was before Mozilla decide to move to WebExtension. However a warning, they are not current with securities updates as Firefox are. I believe they are few version behind.
- deivid 5y ago
  Hey! I wrote this for myself https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-app-launcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-app-... it is fairly crude, but I use i daily. Code lives here https://github.com/DavidVentura/Firefox_External_Applications https://github.com/DavidVentura/Firefox_External_Application...

MaxikCZ 5y ago

It would be nice if some addon would intercept video page opening, initiated background download via youtube-dl, and plopped VLC window running the video (as it's downloading) inserted into the page. I would pay for that

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
This was possible before WebExtension. Unfortunately, it is not possible now. And your suggestion is a security nightmare as it could download malicious code that masked as video automatically. My current setup is Video DownloadHelper + JDownloader 2. I have VDH set to copy the direct URL of the video only. And JD2 will detect the video url via clipboard monitoring and will prompt to download the video. I believe it is still possible to do it in PaleMoon and WaterFox (fork of Firefox). They still uses XUL which it was before Mozilla decide to move to WebExtension. However a warning, they are not current with securities updates as Firefox are. I believe they are few version behind.
deivid 5y ago
Hey! I wrote this for myself https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-app-launcher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-app-... it is fairly crude, but I use i daily. Code lives here https://github.com/DavidVentura/Firefox_External_Applications https://github.com/DavidVentura/Firefox_External_Application...