On 31/3/23 00:40, David Wright wrote:
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.
I had downloaded and installed yt-dlp, but, that did not work, either.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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