[LAU] OT: youtube-dl stopped working

[Rob]

On Thursday 22 July 2010 19:51, Ken Restivo wrote:
> Hmm, I just tried it, and no go with Flash off. Even with Flash on, it
>  still didn't actually download anything.

TM++ doesn't work with Youtube as far as I know, because Youtube uses plain 
old HTTP to grab videos and TM++ is for RTMP streaming, which no browser 
plugin will currently handle.  

And you do have to let the file play in the flash applet in order for TM++ 
to grab it; you just don't need sound turned on.  The last time I used it 
was to grab a friend's song from his Myspace account, or maybe it was 
ReverbNation.  Can't think offhand of which sites stream video that way, 
but I've encountered a few.

Anyway, TM++ is something to be used as a fallback for those sites that 
aren't, and likely will never be, supported by the various Firefox 
extensions out there that work by scraping the site.  Downloadhelper still 
works on Youtube as of when I tried it just now, but they may have come out 
with an update in the last few days without my noticing it.

Rob