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What actually happened to quvi? Is it really still active? (https://github.com/legatvs?tab=repositories https://github.com/legatvs?tab=repositories). No more co

by ux 12y ago

What actually happened to quvi? Is it really still active? (https://github.com/legatvs?tab=repositories https://github.com/legatvs?tab=repositories). No more commit since last year. Same question for clive/cclive... By the way, FFmpeg has support for the 0.4 branch of libquvi, so if you built it with --enable-libquvi you can ffmpeg -i http://youtube.. http://youtube... (assuming libquvi and its scripts still work)

shmerl 12y ago
> What actually happened to quvi? Good question, I didn't keep track of its development. Your best option would be asking developers if they are planning to work on it further or not. > By the way, FFmpeg has support for the 0.4 branch of libquvi Same as mpv I think. You can play Youtube videos with it directly: mpv "$url" Which is kind of fun, since you can do tons of things that aren't available in the browser player - looping, playing only portions of the video and all other things which mpv can do.
- yorhel 12y ago
  Note that quvi support has been removed on mpv git recently. They seem to be considering a switch to youtube-dl instead. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/9b45b48c466765b6491778709a1c52e061480f76 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/9b45b48c466765b6491...
  - shmerl 12y ago
    That's interesting. How are they planning to use youtube-dl? Does it have a C library or mpv allows some plugins in other languages?
    - rossy 12y ago
      The bit that invokes youtube-dl is a Lua plugin. It checks if the URL starts with http:// http:// or https:// https://, and if so, invokes youtube-dl -J on the command line to dump JSON information about the video.
      - shmerl 12y ago
        Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.
      - rg3 12y ago
        Awesome! Not long ago I switched to mpv from mplayer. mpv being able to use youtube-dl without any glue script would be fantastic.
- rossy 12y ago
  I think quvi might be dead. mpv-git actually dropped libquvi a little while back because it was buggy and development was inactive. It's been replaced with a youtube-dl based downloader, so in mpv-git, this would invoke youtube-dl to get the video: mpv --ytdl "$url"
  - shmerl 12y ago
    I wonder if there is any way to specify to it which stream to pick, since Youtube has many options. By default it picks H.264 / AAC, at least when it's using quvi.
    - rossy 12y ago
      IIRC --ytdl-format is passed directly to youtube-dl -f, but all other options have to be set in youtube-dl's config file.

by ux 12y ago

shmerl 12y ago

> What actually happened to quvi? Good question, I didn't keep track of its development. Your best option would be asking developers if they are planning to work on it further or not. > By the way, FFmpeg has support for the 0.4 branch of libquvi Same as mpv I think. You can play Youtube videos with it directly: mpv "$url" Which is kind of fun, since you can do tons of things that aren't available in the browser player - looping, playing only portions of the video and all other things which mpv can do.

yorhel 12y ago
Note that quvi support has been removed on mpv git recently. They seem to be considering a switch to youtube-dl instead. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/9b45b48c466765b6491778709a1c52e061480f76 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/9b45b48c466765b6491...
- shmerl 12y ago
  That's interesting. How are they planning to use youtube-dl? Does it have a C library or mpv allows some plugins in other languages?
  - rossy 12y ago
    The bit that invokes youtube-dl is a Lua plugin. It checks if the URL starts with http:// http:// or https:// https://, and if so, invokes youtube-dl -J on the command line to dump JSON information about the video.
    - shmerl 12y ago
      Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.
    - rg3 12y ago
      Awesome! Not long ago I switched to mpv from mplayer. mpv being able to use youtube-dl without any glue script would be fantastic.
rossy 12y ago
I think quvi might be dead. mpv-git actually dropped libquvi a little while back because it was buggy and development was inactive. It's been replaced with a youtube-dl based downloader, so in mpv-git, this would invoke youtube-dl to get the video: mpv --ytdl "$url"
- shmerl 12y ago
  I wonder if there is any way to specify to it which stream to pick, since Youtube has many options. By default it picks H.264 / AAC, at least when it's using quvi.
  - rossy 12y ago
    IIRC --ytdl-format is passed directly to youtube-dl -f, but all other options have to be set in youtube-dl's config file.