Hi. On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 02:48:23PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > > [...] > > > Installed cclive. youtube-viewer not available.(Unable to find > > youtube-viewer) restarted Firefox and tried to load a video. No > > change. > > No, no -- those are not supposed to work from the browser, but to > download the video, like so: > > youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NPEFH-VSQ"; > > Same syntax for cclive, just substituting cclive for youtube-dl. > > (I just made up that URL, so download with care or better: don't).
That's ok, that particular video is harmless, so to say: $ youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NPEFH-VSQ"; [youtube] W_NPEFH-VSQ: Downloading webpage [youtube] W_NPEFH-VSQ: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: W_NPEFH-VSQ: YouTube said: This video does not exist. > > A file appears in your current directory, and you can look at it > at your leisure, with your favourite viewer (ffmpeg, mplayer, vlc, > you name it) instead of being forced to do whatever a badly cobbled- > together javascript "application" running in your browser has > decided to limit you to. Or, simply run (mpv will run youtube-dl by itself): mpv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NPEFH-VSQ"; Reco
