[LAU] OT: youtube-dl stopped working

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Jul 23 06:13:19 UTC 2010


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.

Actually, if you can get the stream playing in Kaffeine, there's an 
option to save stream to file. Probably other media players have similar 
option.

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David
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