On Thu 30 Mar 2023 at 19:31:21 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > I had previously been able to use youtube-dl, to download videos from > youtube, but, it no longer works with youtube.
AIUI youtube-dl is now obsolete, and its new spelling is yt-dlp. You can download it from bullseye-backports. If you're a backports user, just install it and check out the CLI options you normally use, in case they've been tweaked, with: $ yt-dlp -help | less > And, I had been able to download videos from some streaming hosts, > but, find that I cannot download videos from other streaming hosts. > > By download, I mean saving to my computer - so that I can get > continuity, and, replay the streamed videos at slower speeds, and, > manipulate the sound, so that I (having a hearing disability that > affects my ability to hear what is spoken) can better hear what is > being said, which is important for educational videos, such as at > Rootstech 2023, where I cannot download significant videos. The yt-dlp dependencies are all unversioned, so rather than put backports into my sources.list, I just checked that I had them all, downloaded yt-dlp….deb from the Packages page, and installed it with the apt-get install /full-path-to/yt-dlp….deb syntax. (The backports youtube-dl package used to get very long in the tooth at times, so I've done this frequently in the past.) Whenever downloading fails, I check out whether there's a more up-to-date version with the yt-dlp -U option. Apparently there's a bug in yt-dlp at the moment, but I don't think either of us uses mpv /with/ the downloader, but only /after/ downloading has completed. Cheers, David.
