4 Jan
2022
4 Jan
'22
11:16 a.m.
On January 3, 2022 9:47:43 PM HST, "Peter P." <peterparker(a)fastmail.com>
wrote:
Yes, that's when I found out youtube-dl *wasn't being updated for six months* and
switched.
I hope youtube-dl learns from yt-dlp. Competition is good.
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* david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> [2022-01-04
06:47]:
I know, I was using the version updated exactly that way. I haven't used the version
from Debian's repository for ages.
On 1/3/22 12:17, Jannis Achstetter wrote:
I find that installing youtube-dl via apt will get you only sparse
updates, while when you install it directly from the homepage (its a
python script in effect) you can use its built-in update mechansim
$ youtube-dl -U
which will get you the most recent updates (about every few weeks or
so), which today is from 2021.12.17 Hi,
what brings you to the conclusion that the youtube-dl project is dead or
abandoned?
The homepage at https://youtube-dl.org/ looks alive and up-to-date, the
last commit (which was a release as well) on GitHub
(https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) is "just" 18 days ago?
And on my machine I can still download videos and/or audio only via
youtube-dl.
Well, when I started experiencing dog-slow downloads using youtube-dl, I
checked. I had the then-most current version - which was six months out of
date and the site hadn't been updated in six months. Youtube will do everything to make it hard to use this
tool, like
throttling, so the tool needs frequent updates to circumvent this where
possible.
Yt-dlp hasn't given me that problem. And updating youtube-dl didn't fix it.
Clearing out various things youtube-dl said to clear didn't help, either. (Neither did
the developers' tendency to blame the user's network connection for being slow.
'It must be your network or proxy.' When one tool can download YT vids at
megabits/second while youtube-dl is only able to do kilobits/second, it's not the
user's network connection.)
I still had
extremely
slow download speeds (dial-up class speeds) using youtube-dl, that went away
entirely using the yt-dlp fork of it.
Trying the various youtube-dl fixes for the slow download speeds didn't fix
anything.
Keep on trying updating eventually.