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Just curious, why either of these over vanilla youtube-dl? Wondering if I should update my playlist downloader script
by eastof 4y ago
Just 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.