Makes me wonder if those changes are chrome related. YouTube decides
there is a broken security element in chrome, makes a change, which then
impacts YouTube at some level.
To be sure they want You to encounter the ads. still the view later nature
of YouTube means rather a few are downloading, even expected to download.
Just my thoughts speaking personally,
Karen
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote:
While nobody could say why they update it so often, (e.g. to restrict downloaders or as
part of the regular "product enhancement" cycle) YouTube does in fact change
regularly enough that I have to update yt-dlp about once every few months because of some
change that breaks downloading capability. After the update, all is well once again. :)
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On Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 at 7:23 PM, Micha?? Dec via Freedos-user
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
Hi,
I think other people are exaggerating a little bit with YouTube changing
all the time with the explicit purpose of thwarting downloaders and
here's my 2 cents. First, I highly doubt that Google gives YouTube
enough money that YouTube developers have the leisure of having enough
things done on their to do list to afford working on that. Programmers
aren't cheap and thwarting downloaders isn't really a significant risk
to advertisers and stakeholders because there's not enough people doing
it in the world. To get a team of 10 people with proper experience you
need a million dollars a year. Second, my personal record of not
upgrading yt-dlp until it breaks is 2 years. With that in mind, you
might have a fair chance to write something in C that focuses entirely
on YouTube and maybe works for a few months. You can study yt-dlp's
source code to learn what needs to be re-implemented. You'd definitely
want to have libcurl, libxml2, json-c and ffmpeg ready for DOS as
prerequisite of writing your own thing.
If no original work is to be committed, then you could port things until
eventually yt-dlp can run natively on DOS. Here's a short laundry list
of things to port:
- Python 3
- pycryptodome
- gpep517
- hatchling
- ffmpeg
You may have to port even more things, as this only scratches the surface.
Best regards,
Micha??
W dniu 22.03.2025 o 06:10, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user pisze:
Hi All,
Simply curious if anyone has such a project?
A freedos or other dos port of say something like Yt-dlp?
Best,
Karen
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