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Re: youtube-dl → yt-dlp, was Re: OT: Detecting ISP throttling (was: Re: Potentially OT. Videos lagging & buffering in any browser but Google Chrome.)

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On 31/3/23 02:08, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 31 Mar 2023 at 01:41:04 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>> I had downloaded and installed yt-dlp, but, that did not work, either.
> 
> Writing "did not work" just doesn't cut it on this list:
> we need some specifics. Here's an example I ran this
> morning on a reference given by David Christensen:
> 
> $ gy bKzonnwoR2I
> /usr/bin/yt-dlp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzonnwoR2I
> [youtube] Extracting URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzonnwoR2I
> [youtube] bKzonnwoR2I: Downloading webpage
> [youtube] bKzonnwoR2I: Downloading android player API JSON
> [info] bKzonnwoR2I: Downloading 1 format(s): 248+251
> [download] Destination: Unix Pipeline (Brian Kernighan) - Computerphile [bKzonnwoR2I].f248.webm
> [download] 100% of   50.64MiB in 00:00:05 at 8.45MiB/s
> [download] Destination: Unix Pipeline (Brian Kernighan) - Computerphile [bKzonnwoR2I].f251.webm
> [download] 100% of    3.85MiB in 00:00:00 at 6.28MiB/s
> [Merger] Merging formats into "Unix Pipeline (Brian Kernighan) - Computerphile [bKzonnwoR2I].webm"
> Remember to remove any unmerged files as appropriate.
> $
> 
> Whether you can download that would determine where you go from here.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 
Fri Mar 31 02:18:31 bret@bret-Precision-Tower-5810:~$yt-dlp 
https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng
[generic] 
expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng: 
Requesting header
WARNING: [generic] Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 
expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng: 
Downloading webpage
[generic] 
expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng: 
Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: 
https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/expanding-your-family-tree-with-sideview-and-more-innovations-from-ancestrydna?lang=eng
Fri Mar 31 02:19:05 bret@bret-Precision-Tower-5810:~$


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