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by rg3 11mo ago
Side comment: when I watch YouTube content on my iPad, I normally use the Brave browser instead of the app. It has a built-in ad blocker that works well on YouTube.
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by rg3 6y ago
Thanks, I've reported that to the current maintainers.
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Origins of the youtube-dl project(rg3.name)
559 points by rg3 6y ago|64 comments
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by rg3 8y ago
Note in C you can get the correct result if you use long doubles, which normally go to 80 bits[1]: printf("%Lf\n", 9999999999999999.0L - 9999999999999998.0L); In my x86_64 computer it breaks when you add enough digits. At this poi
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by rg3 10y ago
Thanks for your kind words on behalf of the current team.[1] [1] http://rg3.name/201408141628.html
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by rg3 10y ago
Actually, the project started as far back as 2006 and moved to git in 2008, hence the first commit having that date. I don't remember the exact day I started the project, but on freshcode (formerly freshmeat), the first listed version
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by rg3 10y ago
youtube-dl -F VIDEO_URL will give you a list of formats in YouTube, that you can choose using the -f option. DASH streams contain only video or only audio normally.
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by rg3 10y ago
If your phone supports OGG and you're downloading from YouTube, you can download format 171 (-f 171) and change the container to OGG with ffmpeg. That way you won't lose any quality.
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by rg3 10y ago
If your music player supports OGG, you can also use youtube-dl -f FORMAT VIDEO_URL and give a numeric format that corresponds to a DASH webm audio-only stream, with vorbis audio (e.g. format 171 these days). The container is webm but it can
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by rg3 10y ago
As it was pointed out the first time youtube-dl was on Hacker News, our user base seems to be split regarding that behavior. When you copy a URL from a playlist, the URL includes both the video id and the playlist id. Some people want to do
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by rg3 12y ago
Well, this is going to be more of a philosophical answer than a technical one: with the popularity of YouTube nowadays, which is available on every platform and allows for anyone, anywhere to instantly watch a video, the cat-and-mouse DRM g
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by rg3 12y ago
The current team should have more information, but I think most updates are due to other sites breaking and new sites being added that due to YouTube or bug fixes. I don't think YouTube is actively working against tools like youtube-
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by rg3 12y ago
I agree. It's a consequence of the software being very volatile, having thousands of users and supporting so many sites. There's something to fix or to add every day.
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by rg3 12y ago
That was indeed the original purpose.
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by rg3 12y ago
Awesome! Not long ago I switched to mpv from mplayer. mpv being able to use youtube-dl without any glue script would be fantastic.
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by rg3 12y ago
I think it's a legitimate choice. Personally I'm not worried my work is being used that way, as long as the original project is available and works.
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by rg3 12y ago
It's very nice to see a project I started reach the front page of HN. I remember starting the project around 2006. Back then, I had a dial-up connection and it wasn't easy for me to watch a video I liked a second time. It took age
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by rg3 12y ago
If you already have an Android phone, I guess the RedPhone app is the most convenient and cheap way to make encrypted voice calls. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...
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by rg3 12y ago
Wow. I was still using it to monitor new releases of iotop. I think this is going to be shocking news for anyone who was running Linux or BSDs in the early 2000s.
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by rg3 12y ago
Totally agree. As things are currently, wouldn't it be best if the story link was to the actual original post? https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...
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by rg3 13y ago
> It sets a bad precedent if government can dictate software features. I don't think there's anything wrong with the government dictating software features for the software they want to use. If anyone doesn't want to imple
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by rg3 13y ago
I'm currently playing Dark Souls under Windows (I bought it during a Steam sale some days ago), and don't understand this. When the game launches it needs and account in "Games for Windows Live". I created an offline (lo
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GCC surprisingly slow with #pragma once(rg3.name)
3 points by rg3 13y ago|0 comments
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by rg3 13y ago
I can't speak for the OP, but where I live in Spain it's not uncommon for a standard coffee to be about... €1.2 to €1.5.
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by rg3 13y ago
I really like the refactoring done here. Congratulations to the author. He did an excellent job, IMHO. There's one thing missing that I always wanted to have: put the contents of the README file _above_ the file listing. The truth is,
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by rg3 13y ago
Thanks for clarifying. So the following complaint about DPI does not make sense, given that a 50 inches wide screen with a resolution of 600 pixels per inch has 32000 pixels.
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by rg3 13y ago
Also, I don't understand the claim "between all of your displays you can only have 32,768 pixels". A 1920x1080 screen has over 2 million pixels (2073600 to be precise). Can anybody explain that part?
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by rg3 13y ago
Thanks! I didn't catch that earlier submission.
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This Is What Water Will Look Like in Games of the Future(mashable.com)
2 points by rg3 13y ago|2 comments
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by rg3 13y ago
A similar thing happened to me with youtube-dl. I handed the project over and gave commit access to a couple of contributors who are now doing an excellent job at keeping the program up to date. Not long ago, this story was discussed here a

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