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by thaumasiotes 1163 days ago
A while ago youtube-dl broke and wasn't fixed. yt-dlp fixed the problem.

Granted, I haven't kept up on whether original youtube-dl eventually got around to getting its primary functionality to work. The several-month interregnum that definitely occurred seems like a good reason to consider it "dead".
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noirscape 1163 days ago
It's been fixed but the new maintainer refuses to release a new version until someone manages to help him figure out how to get automated builds running (which seems to have been the problem for the past year and he refuses to just do a manual build so that youtube-dl at least works with YouTube).

yt-dlp is a better maintained fork.

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bharathyes 1163 days ago
Not sure which problem you refer to but it is an active repo that has worked well for the past few months atleast.
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Larrikin 1163 days ago
Have you tried yt-dlp? I remember what made me switch. YouTube downloading didn't break, but became extremely slow when compared to my actual network speeds. YouTube seems to do something to fuck with the speeds every so often. yt-dlp is quick to hop on those issues.
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thaumasiotes 1163 days ago
> Not sure which problem you refer to

It stopped being able to download videos from youtube. That's not the only functionality, but -- given the name of the software -- I'd say it should have been fixed. All the repo activity in the world won't balance out the inability to do the only thing you advertise that you can do.

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