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YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs

163 points by tbbttbbt 5y ago

haunter 5y ago
I wish any of the projects would implement a feature to download parts of a video. Currently that's not possible Request is open since 2013 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/622 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/622
- nyuszika7h 5y ago
  It's possible with yt-dlp: --downloader ffmpeg --downloader-args "ffmpeg_i:-ss start_time -to end_time" Though the ffmpeg downloader is quite slow and has no parallelization.
- dylan604 5y ago
  I have no idea what the code looks like for ytdl, but the concept seems straightforward enough for DASH/HLS segmented encodes. Determine the duration of each segment, do the math to find which segments would be required for the requested part, then do ytdl magic. I'd be more than happy to be forced to have a few seconds before/after the requested time just to avoid the necessity of breaking segments. Just straight download/concat. We all know how well concept to working code goes though
  - matvp 5y ago
    Not so sure that'll work due to the fact that the first segment in a subset of segments is not the init segment (thus missing atoms like moov, ...)
    - thenthenthen 5y ago
      Just cut it with ffmpeg? Ok you will have to download the whole thing first... but yeh
Maursault 5y ago
This is a post about youtube-dl. Why are nearly all the comments about yt-dlp? If I didn't know better, I'd think yt-dlp users have massive inferiority complexes because they never seem to miss an opportunity to attempt to recruit everyone else to be just like them, even shamelessly trolling the announcement. When did this turn into Ford vs. Chevy?
- yokoprime 5y ago
  Trolling? Some are commenting that keeping the project alive to support old versions of python seems like a weak reason, which is a fair criticism IMO.
  - Maursault 5y ago
    My apologies, I didn't remotely intend to suggest every single comment was a troll, but only that there are yt-dlp users that have trolled that thread. The criticism of supporting python2 is fair, but not unassailable. I am personally against steady progress necessarily breaking in advancing increments things that worked years ago. My opinions on software are my own, but I strongly believe if software works even once, there's no reason it shouldn't work forever. I despise Adobe's and now Apple's models of breaking your old software to force you to purchase again for identical functionality. But I suppose it is a different case when developers are actively working against each other. However, python2 was only recently deprecated. Just because I can't think of an example, it is still likely being used, and there may be 20yo but still useful hw somewhere that does not support any recently released OS or software but is still a worthy youtube-dl utility. Maybe the critics of supporting old versions of python can wait.
    - nyuszika7h 5y ago
      Depends on what you mean by "recently". Python 2 has been EOL for over two years now. The lowest version yt-dlp supports, Python 3.6, was released five years ago, and I would say it's a pretty usable version. The only reason it even took so long for Python 2 to become EOL is because people kept dragging out the transition from Python 2 because of a few annoyances in initial versions of Python 3 that were mostly addressed by 3.3-3.4 or so.
maxnoe 5y ago
The reason to continue the project and not focus together on the more maintained fork [1] is to keep support for python 2.6 and 3.2? In 2022? For a thing that is made to talk to the internet? Python 2.6.7 was released in 2011. Python 2.x overdue EOL was in 2020. Python 3.2.6 was released in 2014. That's has to be one of the worst reasons for duplicating efforts ever. [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- Cyberdog 5y ago
  To play the devil's advocate… one of the uses of youtube-dl is to grab a video so it can be watched on lower-spec machines that might not be able to handle playing a YouTube video in a web browser. Such machines might also be stuck on older operating system releases which don't have easy access to cutting edge Python distributions. That's just my guess at the logic here, anyway.
  - justsomehnguy 5y ago
    Running youtube-dl on Windows is solved by compiling the Python runtime in the binary itself. So... run it through Wine? /s
  - solarkraft 5y ago
    As far as I know current Python distributions are pretty available for older systems.
    - mananaysiempre 5y ago
      If we are speaking current distributions, Python 3.9 actively refuses to install on Windows 7 and dropped the relevant compatibility code (though I think 3.8 might have had problems installing on it as well).
      - nyuszika7h 5y ago
        yt-dlp currently has no plans to drop support for Python 3.6, which became EOL a month ago. And Python 3.8 will be supported until October 2024. On Linux (at least a regular x86/x86_64 machine, not sure about other architectures), you can generally easily install an up to date Python version with pyenv.
IronWolve 5y ago
I'm using yt-dlp, and a very small change really made me go "cool" is Color numbers.. I just wish for functions I could pick mid 720p'ish as a setting that includes audio+video, and not have to pick the audio and video formats. Theres a worst and a best option, but I'd want a middle quality to save space.
- makeworld 5y ago
  You can totally do that! See the section on Format Selection[0]. From my reading of it, doing this would work for what you want: -f 'bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]' [0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#format-selection https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#format-selection
  - emptybottle 5y ago
    Alias that to -f 720ish and we’re getting somewhere
    - 1una 5y ago
      Maybe you are looking for -S res:720 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#sorting-formats https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#sorting-formats
      - IronWolve 5y ago
        Also want to save it in .mp4 format, trying it saves it formats in .webm
        1una 5y ago
        Well, that's --remux-video mp4 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#post-processing-options https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#post-processing-options
- haunter 5y ago
  You can do that with the arguments (bestvideo[height=720]/bestvideo)+bestaudio/best bestvideo[height=720] = download the best 720p resolution /bestvideo = otherwise download the best available (540p, 480p etc)
stjohnswarts 5y ago
I would think a great place to see changes would be to go see what yt-dlp has been up to during the time of prior management because it certainly works better currently. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to pull some of those changes over.
sergiotapia 5y ago
Massive thank you to the original author and the original youtube-dl. Wonderful piece of software! However it's been too long - isn't yt-dlp very far ahead and much healthier in it's organization _today_? Also the insistence of using a dead version of Python is pretty strange and will probably hamstrings the efforts for very minimal gains.
lowdose 5y ago
Used it today for downloading some of Red Bulls content showing human pushing their body to the max. Those base jumpers in flysuits are so crazy I actually think about doing it myself. Flying as a pink elephant in the weekend.
tempuserdel11 5y ago
Could someone make a fork please which works for PornHib as well? :D

163 points by tbbttbbt 5y ago

I wish any of the projects would implement a feature to download parts of a video. Currently that's not possible Request is open since 2013 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/622 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/622

nyuszika7h 5y ago
It's possible with yt-dlp: --downloader ffmpeg --downloader-args "ffmpeg_i:-ss start_time -to end_time" Though the ffmpeg downloader is quite slow and has no parallelization.
dylan604 5y ago
I have no idea what the code looks like for ytdl, but the concept seems straightforward enough for DASH/HLS segmented encodes. Determine the duration of each segment, do the math to find which segments would be required for the requested part, then do ytdl magic. I'd be more than happy to be forced to have a few seconds before/after the requested time just to avoid the necessity of breaking segments. Just straight download/concat. We all know how well concept to working code goes though
- matvp 5y ago
  Not so sure that'll work due to the fact that the first segment in a subset of segments is not the init segment (thus missing atoms like moov, ...)
  - thenthenthen 5y ago
    Just cut it with ffmpeg? Ok you will have to download the whole thing first... but yeh

Maursault 5y ago

This is a post about youtube-dl. Why are nearly all the comments about yt-dlp? If I didn't know better, I'd think yt-dlp users have massive inferiority complexes because they never seem to miss an opportunity to attempt to recruit everyone else to be just like them, even shamelessly trolling the announcement. When did this turn into Ford vs. Chevy?

yokoprime 5y ago
Trolling? Some are commenting that keeping the project alive to support old versions of python seems like a weak reason, which is a fair criticism IMO.
- Maursault 5y ago
  My apologies, I didn't remotely intend to suggest every single comment was a troll, but only that there are yt-dlp users that have trolled that thread. The criticism of supporting python2 is fair, but not unassailable. I am personally against steady progress necessarily breaking in advancing increments things that worked years ago. My opinions on software are my own, but I strongly believe if software works even once, there's no reason it shouldn't work forever. I despise Adobe's and now Apple's models of breaking your old software to force you to purchase again for identical functionality. But I suppose it is a different case when developers are actively working against each other. However, python2 was only recently deprecated. Just because I can't think of an example, it is still likely being used, and there may be 20yo but still useful hw somewhere that does not support any recently released OS or software but is still a worthy youtube-dl utility. Maybe the critics of supporting old versions of python can wait.
  - nyuszika7h 5y ago
    Depends on what you mean by "recently". Python 2 has been EOL for over two years now. The lowest version yt-dlp supports, Python 3.6, was released five years ago, and I would say it's a pretty usable version. The only reason it even took so long for Python 2 to become EOL is because people kept dragging out the transition from Python 2 because of a few annoyances in initial versions of Python 3 that were mostly addressed by 3.3-3.4 or so.

maxnoe 5y ago

The reason to continue the project and not focus together on the more maintained fork [1] is to keep support for python 2.6 and 3.2? In 2022? For a thing that is made to talk to the internet? Python 2.6.7 was released in 2011. Python 2.x overdue EOL was in 2020. Python 3.2.6 was released in 2014. That's has to be one of the worst reasons for duplicating efforts ever. [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Cyberdog 5y ago
To play the devil's advocate… one of the uses of youtube-dl is to grab a video so it can be watched on lower-spec machines that might not be able to handle playing a YouTube video in a web browser. Such machines might also be stuck on older operating system releases which don't have easy access to cutting edge Python distributions. That's just my guess at the logic here, anyway.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  Running youtube-dl on Windows is solved by compiling the Python runtime in the binary itself. So... run it through Wine? /s
- solarkraft 5y ago
  As far as I know current Python distributions are pretty available for older systems.
  - mananaysiempre 5y ago
    If we are speaking current distributions, Python 3.9 actively refuses to install on Windows 7 and dropped the relevant compatibility code (though I think 3.8 might have had problems installing on it as well).
    - nyuszika7h 5y ago
      yt-dlp currently has no plans to drop support for Python 3.6, which became EOL a month ago. And Python 3.8 will be supported until October 2024. On Linux (at least a regular x86/x86_64 machine, not sure about other architectures), you can generally easily install an up to date Python version with pyenv.

IronWolve 5y ago

I'm using yt-dlp, and a very small change really made me go "cool" is Color numbers.. I just wish for functions I could pick mid 720p'ish as a setting that includes audio+video, and not have to pick the audio and video formats. Theres a worst and a best option, but I'd want a middle quality to save space.

makeworld 5y ago
You can totally do that! See the section on Format Selection[0]. From my reading of it, doing this would work for what you want: -f 'bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]' [0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#format-selection https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#format-selection
- emptybottle 5y ago
  Alias that to -f 720ish and we’re getting somewhere
  - 1una 5y ago
    Maybe you are looking for -S res:720 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#sorting-formats https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#sorting-formats
    - IronWolve 5y ago
      Also want to save it in .mp4 format, trying it saves it formats in .webm
      - 1una 5y ago
        Well, that's --remux-video mp4 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#post-processing-options https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#post-processing-options
haunter 5y ago
You can do that with the arguments (bestvideo[height=720]/bestvideo)+bestaudio/best bestvideo[height=720] = download the best 720p resolution /bestvideo = otherwise download the best available (540p, 480p etc)

stjohnswarts 5y ago

I would think a great place to see changes would be to go see what yt-dlp has been up to during the time of prior management because it certainly works better currently. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to pull some of those changes over.

sergiotapia 5y ago

Massive thank you to the original author and the original youtube-dl. Wonderful piece of software! However it's been too long - isn't yt-dlp very far ahead and much healthier in it's organization _today_? Also the insistence of using a dead version of Python is pretty strange and will probably hamstrings the efforts for very minimal gains.

lowdose 5y ago

Used it today for downloading some of Red Bulls content showing human pushing their body to the max. Those base jumpers in flysuits are so crazy I actually think about doing it myself. Flying as a pink elephant in the weekend.

tempuserdel11 5y ago

Could someone make a fork please which works for PornHib as well? :D