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The reason to continue the project and not focus together on the more maintained fork [1] is to keep support for python 2.6 and 3.2? In 2022? For a thing that
by maxnoe 5y ago
The reason to continue the project and not focus together on the more maintained fork [1] is to keep support for python 2.6 and 3.2?
In 2022?
For a thing that is made to talk to the internet?
Python 2.6.7 was released in 2011.
Python 2.x overdue EOL was in 2020.
Python 3.2.6 was released in 2014.
That's has to be one of the worst reasons for duplicating efforts ever.
[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- Operyl 5y agoYeah that’s completely nuts to me, I’ll continue to recommend yt-dlp for the significant future.
- TowerTall 5y agoIs there any GUIs for yt-dlp?
- Operyl 5y agoI tried https://github.com/axcore/tartube https://github.com/axcore/tartube some time ago and it worked. I mostly use the command line though, it’s really simple.
- llacb47 5y agohttps://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui
- prox 5y agoCommand is insanely simple (and I don’t use a lot of shells normally) Copy your youtube url Go to your command shell yt-dlp -v pasted url Watch the download. Done.
- Cyberdog 5y agoYou'll want to surround the pasted URL with quotes, or else the question mark in all non-shortened YouTube video URLs will confuse the shell. Also, I suggest adding `-f mp4` to avoid getting a video in Google's proprietary video format. (Yes, I know, but basically…) yt-dlp -f mp4 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'
- Operyl 5y agoThis is one of my favorite things I don’t have to worry about with zsh + oh-my-zsh, pasted URLs being auto quoted.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoUnquoted URLs with '?' work fine in bash. It's not like it's common to have files named with a URL that could confuse a glob expansion.
- derimagia 5y agoIt's mainly the "&" which does it, which is pretty common.
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- btdmaster 5y agoWebm is quite a nice format actually, it's a subset of MKV that gave a good target for browser developers. The fact that patent-encumbered h264 is the only codec that is hardware-accelerated across devices is an entirely different issue.
- solarkraft 5y agoMP4 (H.264/H.265) is the proprietary one. WebM (VP8/VP9) is open and royalty free (as is the upcoming AV1). Less commonly supported though, most notably by Apple and some TVs (quite import for that use case).
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- agumonkey 5y agoyoutube-dl gui allows to queue urls though, convenient
- arvigeus 5y agoSearch for yt-dlp on flathub. There was a GUI for it, but it is too generic to remember it now. VideoDownloader?
- cercatrova 5y agohttps://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Manual:SVPtube https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Manual:SVPtube Paid generally but there's a legacy free version for YouTube and Vimeo it says.
- database64128 5y agoA small project of mine: https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf It uses WPF so it can only run on Windows though.
- Handytinge 5y agoMaybe. But who cares? It's an open source project, if someone wants to maintain support for older software, good for them. If people don't like it they can fork and move on (and they have). I don't understand the complaints and attacks in the github comments. It seems bizarre and egotistical to me to yell at a stranger who is providing you their work for free because you don't agree with their specific use case.
- itake 5y agoI think the original project isn't actively maintained any more: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/commit-activit... 910 PRs, but only 3 commits to master since July 2021.
- Cyberdog 5y agoTo play the devil's advocate… one of the uses of youtube-dl is to grab a video so it can be watched on lower-spec machines that might not be able to handle playing a YouTube video in a web browser. Such machines might also be stuck on older operating system releases which don't have easy access to cutting edge Python distributions. That's just my guess at the logic here, anyway.
- solarkraft 5y agoAs far as I know current Python distributions are pretty available for older systems.
- mananaysiempre 5y agoIf we are speaking current distributions, Python 3.9 actively refuses to install on Windows 7 and dropped the relevant compatibility code (though I think 3.8 might have had problems installing on it as well).
- nyuszika7h 5y agoyt-dlp currently has no plans to drop support for Python 3.6, which became EOL a month ago. And Python 3.8 will be supported until October 2024. On Linux (at least a regular x86/x86_64 machine, not sure about other architectures), you can generally easily install an up to date Python version with pyenv.
- mananaysiempre 5y agoMy personal machine is on Arch Linux (which recently moved to 3.10 without any major problems) and I know about yt-dlp, so I’m not having any particular problems here :) It’s just that the great-grandparent asked for plausible scenarios for using obsolete Python, and Windows 7 support immediately came to mind.
- nixgeek 5y agoWindows 7 was also EOL in January 2020. I’m not sure I blame Python 3.9 for failing to support an EOL operating system either.
- superkuh 5y agoOne of the primary, if not the most important, youtube-dl use cases is older computers and older installs that cannot handle modern youtube javascript. By not running javascript at all most of the security issues on the modern web can be mitigated. There are lots of responsible people out there running old software. And even more people who are just poor and can't afford the new hardware required for new OSes required for new browsers.
- classichasclass 5y agoExactly. I still supported Perl 5.005 with a number of my projects for precisely that reason. Even now I still try to target around 5.6 or 5.8, despite being quite old.
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