On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 10:50:06 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:31:44PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > The latest version of youtube-dl , makes it too old to try to use now; if > > you can get it working with youtube, good luck to you. > > > > An unmaintained package, that is three years since last updated, for > > accessing web sites on the World Wide Web? > > > > Hmmmm..... > > The youtube-dl package in Debian 12 is a transitional package which > brings in yt-dlp (version 2023.03.04-1 currently). > > Whether that's too old to be usable is a good question, but it's > definitely not "three years since last updated".
My experience was similar to Bret's, only I'd long got used to not just taking Debian's proferred version, but checking whether there was a newer version somewhere around. It was in February 2023 when I found that even the most modern version of youtube-dl that I could find would still not work with some sites that had worked before. That's when I stumbled upon yt-dlp, and realised the world had quietly moved on. This was in the days of bullseye, and note that bullseye still has a /normal/ youtube-dl package, 34 months old, and no yt-dlp package. For the latter, you need to be running backports (and I have no idea when yt-dlp entered bullseye-backports). It kind of reminds me of the mplayer, mpv, and the debian multimedia site melange of a few years ago, only there there was more discussion of rival versions (and the perils of using that site) on the list. Cheers, David.
