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Note: I would encourage switching over from youtube-dlp to yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) As I understand it, yt-dl
by registeredcorn 4y ago
Note: I would encourage switching over from youtube-dlp to yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
As I understand it, yt-dlp is considerably faster.
- eastof 4y agoJust curious, why either of these over vanilla youtube-dl? Wondering if I should update my playlist downloader script
- sanroot99 4y agoYouTube-dl has gone slow af ,yt-dlp is fork that solves that ,my guess is some kind of fingerprinting YouTube is employing to throttle YouTube dl
- selfhoster11 4y agoIt’s far easier to grab an “archival” grade copy of a YouTube video (includes thumbnail, subtitles, metadata, etc) and ask the program to embed all the data within the video file itself. It can even remux all videos into a selected container format, which is really nice.
- selfhoster11 4y agoMy bad, I meant yt-dlp