[LAU] OT: youtube-dl stopped working

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Thu Jul 22 23:51:35 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:44:49PM -0400, Rob wrote:
> On Thursday 22 July 2010 16:05, frank pirrone wrote:
> > Downloadhelper is for general media download...works well
> 
> Yep, I use that all the time, especially since disabling Pulseaudio, which 
> seems to have made Flash stutter like crazy or be silent altogether -- 
> sometimes crashing Firefox as a bonus.  Sure hope Lightspark is viable 
> someday.
> 
> For those sites that Downloadhelper doesn't work on (the streaming 
> audio/video sites that are actually streaming the file using RTMP and not 
> just downloading it in the background), usually Tubemaster++ will let me 
> soldier on through, but it's clumsy as hell and a little flaky.
> 

Hmm, I just tried it, and no go with Flash off. Even with Flash on, it still didn't actually download anything.

I'll try the js thing.

But, if Google changed their site, then it might break all of these.

-ken


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