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

by tbbttbbt on 1/29/22, 7:38 PM with 58 comments

  • by IronWolve on 1/29/22, 8:53 PM

    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.

  • by sergiotapia on 1/29/22, 10:50 PM

    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.

  • by stjohnswarts on 1/29/22, 9:45 PM

    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.

  • by maxnoe on 1/29/22, 8:33 PM

    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

  • by haunter on 1/29/22, 9:10 PM

    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

  • by tempuserdel11 on 1/30/22, 11:50 AM

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

  • by lowdose on 1/30/22, 12:49 AM

    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.

  • by Maursault on 1/29/22, 11:07 PM

    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?