22 Jul
2010
22 Jul
'10
9:59 p.m.
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working today.
I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, from several days
ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible for youtube-dl to work
anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working on fixing this? Are there alternatives
that actually still work?
Thanks.
-ken
22 Jul
22 Jul
10:02 p.m.
Aren't there add-ons for Firefox which can fetch youtube content?
I haven't tried them. But, I've seen them in the add-on site.
--
Kevin
10:46 p.m.
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.
Rob
11:09 p.m.
Excerpts from Rob's message of 2010-07-22 22:44:49 +0200:
On Thursday 22 July 2010 16:05, frank pirrone wrote:
There was a lightspark release two days ago, I installed it yesterday
and watched one youtube video with it. It seemed to work (firefox,
alsa). The controls were totally messed up though.
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.
Rob
youtube is pretty much the most important site now though, but I start
to dislike it more and more due to stuff like:
"Content was removed due to copyright claims from Lucas Arts"
or
"This bbc video is not available outside the UK"
Sure, we don't have enough borders yet, we need some more virtual ones.
--
Regards,
Philipp
--
"Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen
offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
23 Jul
23 Jul
1:51 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:44:49PM -0400, Rob wrote:
On Thursday 22 July 2010 16:05, frank pirrone wrote:
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
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.
4:47 a.m.
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
8:18 a.m.
Rob wrote:
On Thursday 22 July 2010 19:51, Ken Restivo wrote:
I don't remember any updates recently - more than a couple weeks ago,
probably. Used it yesterday with YoutTube, worked fine.
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
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.
8:13 a.m.
Rob wrote:
On Thursday 22 July 2010 16:05, frank pirrone wrote:
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.
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
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.
22 Jul
22 Jul
10:35 p.m.
Excerpts from Ken Restivo's message of 2010-07-22 21:58:54 +0200:
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working
today.
I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, from several days
ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible for youtube-dl to work
anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working on fixing this? Are there alternatives
that actually still work?
Thanks.
-ken
I noticed the same thing, worked one or two days ago, but today I get:
ERROR: no known formats available for video
Maybe it has to do with webm or they changed some other stuff, no idea.
--
Regards,
Philipp
--
"Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen
offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
10:46 p.m.
On 2010-07-22 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working
today.
I didn't notice this, since I haven't used youtube-dl for some time. But
something very similar happened to me a couple of months back, and after
sometime I noticed there was a new version available, that worked again.
I think it's just as Philipp mentions, "something" on youtube changed
that made the current youtube-dl incompatible and hopefully a fix will
be available soonish.
--
Atte
http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk
10:57 p.m.
On 07/22/2010 04:46 PM, Atte André Jensen wrote:
On 2010-07-22 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
Just tested downloadhelper with a video on their home page - how to cure
game addiction - and it worked as expected.
Frank
p.s I didn't actually say that this is a Firefox extension
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped
working today.
I didn't notice this, since I haven't used youtube-dl for some time.
But something very similar happened to me a couple of months back, and
after sometime I noticed there was a new version available, that
worked again.
I think it's just as Philipp mentions, "something" on youtube changed
that made the current youtube-dl incompatible and hopefully a fix will
be available soonish.
23 Jul
23 Jul
12:58 a.m.
torsdag 22 juli 2010 21.58.54 skrev Ken Restivo:
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working
today.
...
..Are there alternatives that actually still work?
I stopped using youtube-dl a long time ago, you will find your complete file
in your /tmp-folder when it's fully loaded in the browser:
ls -l /tmp/Flash*
And then you can do something like this:
cp /tmp/FlashXXxsHs3S ~/myflashfile.flv
Jostein
1:06 a.m.
On 2010-07-23 00:58, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
I stopped using youtube-dl a long time ago, you will
find your complete file
in your /tmp-folder when it's fully loaded in the browser:
and by "fully loaded" you mean cached (the light red bar is all the way
to the right)...
ls -l /tmp/Flash*
And then you can do something like this:
cp /tmp/FlashXXxsHs3S ~/myflashfile.flv
...but it's a really cool tip!
--
Atte
http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk
1:12 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:06:15AM +0200, Atte Andr? Jensen wrote:
On 2010-07-23 00:58, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
The problem is that I turn Flash off. I hate it. So it's not on.
I'm looking for a way to download YouTube videos without having Flash.
-ken
I stopped using youtube-dl a long time ago, you
will find your complete file
in your /tmp-folder when it's fully loaded in the browser:
and by "fully loaded" you mean cached (the light red bar is all the way
to the right)...
ls -l /tmp/Flash*
And then you can do something like this:
cp /tmp/FlashXXxsHs3S ~/myflashfile.flv
...but it's a really cool tip!
1:31 a.m.
+1 for DownloadHelper.
There's some others too, http://keepvid.com/ paste url, done.
Cheers, -Harry
1:31 a.m.
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 16:12 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:06:15AM +0200, Atte Andr?
Jensen wrote:
I believe there's half a dozen firefox plugins to do that. Can't even
remember the name of the last one I used, swapped quite a few.
On 2010-07-23 00:58, Jostein Chr. Andersen
wrote:
The problem is that I turn Flash off. I hate it. So it's not on.
I'm looking for a way to download YouTube videos without having Flash.
-ken I stopped using youtube-dl a long time ago, you
will find your complete file
in your /tmp-folder when it's fully loaded in the browser:
and by "fully loaded" you mean cached (the light red bar is all the way
to the right)...
ls -l /tmp/Flash*
And then you can do something like this:
cp /tmp/FlashXXxsHs3S ~/myflashfile.flv
...but it's a really cool tip!
1:49 a.m.
On 07/23/2010 09:12 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
I'm looking for a way to download YouTube videos without having Flash.
Try "Youtube without Flash Auto" .js script with the Greasemonkey extension.
You can then download the actual mp4, or play it in Ff via mplayer or
vlc plugins.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748/
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771
12:03 p.m.
Excerpts from Jostein Chr. Andersen's message of 2010-07-23 00:58:35 +0200:
torsdag 22 juli 2010 21.58.54 skrev Ken Restivo:
You need flash for that to work, which youtube-dl doesn't require.
--
Regards,
Philipp
--
"Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen
offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped
working today.
...
..Are there alternatives that actually still
work?
I stopped using youtube-dl a long time ago, you will find your complete file
in your /tmp-folder when it's fully loaded in the browser:
ls -l /tmp/Flash*
And then you can do something like this:
cp /tmp/FlashXXxsHs3S ~/myflashfile.flv
Jostein 
3:45 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:58:54PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working
today.
I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, from
several days ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible for
youtube-dl to work anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working on
fixing this? Are there alternatives that actually still work?
I believe there was an update in the hg repository at 5:02PM today.
That is currently working fine for me.
8:11 a.m.
Ken Restivo wrote:
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working
today.
I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, from several days
ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible for youtube-dl to work
anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working on fixing this? Are there alternatives
that actually still work?
Thanks.
-ken
I use Download Helper in Firefox, but don't know how useful it would be
if you can't see the graphical display. :-(
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
2:29 p.m.
On 22.07.2010 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working
today.
I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, from several days
ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible for youtube-dl to work
anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working on fixing this? Are there alternatives
that actually still work?
Thanks.
-ken
_______________________________________________
hallo,
as i know, youtube-dl is a script which is changing pretty often,
because youtube himself do some changes...the version in sidux repo is
2010.07.14-1 and it worked just two or 3 days ago, but not any more. the
error is the same phillip has: ERROR: format not available for video
i suppose that is gonna be updated soon.
...ok, i just rechecked - on the youtube-dl site, there is already an
update and it works well here:
http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home
cheers,
doc
8:42 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
On 22.07.2010 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
Thanks! That works now.
I'd forgotten to check their repository too, which might have gotten me a working
version a day or two ago.
Thanks again everyone.
-ken
The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped
working today.
I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, from several days
ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible for youtube-dl to work
anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working on fixing this? Are there alternatives
that actually still work?
Thanks.
-ken
_______________________________________________
hallo,
as i know, youtube-dl is a script which is changing pretty often,
because youtube himself do some changes...the version in sidux repo is
2010.07.14-1 and it worked just two or 3 days ago, but not any more. the
error is the same phillip has: ERROR: format not available for video
i suppose that is gonna be updated soon.
...ok, i just rechecked - on the youtube-dl site, there is already an
update and it works well here:
http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home
24 Jul
24 Jul
8:21 a.m.
Ken Restivo wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Dragan
Noveski wrote:
Hmmm, just downloaded it and tried it here, and it doesn't work. It says
setting language, downloading page. Then it returns to the command
prompt and nothing downloads.
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
On 22.07.2010 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
Thanks! That works now.
I'd forgotten to check their repository too, which might have gotten me a working
version a day or two ago.
Thanks again everyone. The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped
working today.
I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this, from several days
ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible for youtube-dl to work
anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working on fixing this? Are there alternatives
that actually still work?
Thanks.
-ken
_______________________________________________
hallo,
as i know, youtube-dl is a script which is changing pretty often,
because youtube himself do some changes...the version in sidux repo is
2010.07.14-1 and it worked just two or 3 days ago, but not any more. the
error is the same phillip has: ERROR: format not available for video
i suppose that is gonna be updated soon.
...ok, i just rechecked - on the youtube-dl site, there is already an
update and it works well here:
http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home
11:59 a.m.
On 24.07.2010 08:20, david wrote:
Ken Restivo wrote:
that's strange?! i just tried it again in order to see if it works, and
it does.
what does youtube-dl -v say?
here:
nowhiskey@murija5:~/Desktop$ youtube-dl -v
2010.07.22
nowhiskey@murija5:~/Desktop$
cheers,
doc
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Dragan
Noveski wrote:
Hmmm, just downloaded it and tried it here, and it doesn't work. It
says setting language, downloading page. Then it returns to the
command prompt and nothing downloads.
On 22.07.2010 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
Thanks! That works now.
I'd forgotten to check their repository too, which might have gotten
me a working version a day or two ago.
Thanks again everyone. The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped
working today.
I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this,
from several days ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible
for youtube-dl to work anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working
on fixing this? Are there alternatives that actually still work?
Thanks.
-ken
_______________________________________________
hallo,
as i know, youtube-dl is a script which is changing pretty often,
because youtube himself do some changes...the version in sidux repo
is 2010.07.14-1 and it worked just two or 3 days ago, but not any
more. the error is the same phillip has: ERROR: format not
available for video
i suppose that is gonna be updated soon.
...ok, i just rechecked - on the youtube-dl site, there is already
an update and it works well here:
http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home
8:15 p.m.
Dragan Noveski wrote:
On 24.07.2010 08:20, david wrote:
Yesterday I went to here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/StNicholasEpiscopal
Clicked on the first sermon in the right column, got this URL:
http://www.youtube.com/user/StNicholasEpiscopal#p/c/BA994E97CAB499FC/0/2VGN…
That one didn't work.
Now when I click on the same sermon link, I get this URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGN79gJrSY
That one does work.
The only difference between the two is that today I have Javascript
disabled via NoScript at YouTube. Yesterday I had it enabled so the
Flash video would play in the browser window.
Ken Restivo wrote:
that's strange?! i just tried it again in order to see if it works, and
it does. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Dragan
Noveski wrote:
Hmmm, just downloaded it and tried it here, and it doesn't work. It
says setting language, downloading page. Then it returns to the
command prompt and nothing downloads.
On 22.07.2010 21:58, Ken Restivo wrote:
> The youtube-dl script all of a sudden stopped working today.
>
> I went to their website and there's only one issue open on this,
> from several days ago, no replies, seems to be no action on this.
>
> Is youtube-dl actively maintained? Did Google make it impossible
> for youtube-dl to work anymore? What's the story? Is anyone working
> on fixing this? Are there alternatives that actually still work?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -ken
> _______________________________________________
hallo,
as i know, youtube-dl is a script which is changing pretty often,
because youtube himself do some changes...the version in sidux repo
is 2010.07.14-1 and it worked just two or 3 days ago, but not any
more. the error is the same phillip has: ERROR: format not
available for video
i suppose that is gonna be updated soon.
...ok, i just rechecked - on the youtube-dl site, there is already
an update and it works well here:
http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home
Thanks! That works now.
I'd forgotten to check their repository too, which might have gotten
me a working version a day or two ago.
Thanks again everyone. what does youtube-dl -v say?
here:
nowhiskey@murija5:~/Desktop$ youtube-dl -v
2010.07.22
nowhiskey@murija5:~/Desktop$
Same version.
So it appears to be working fine. My mistake, sorry for the noise. Thank
you for the still very useful youtube-dl!
--
David
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