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woefe / ytcc

Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
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Support for yt-dlp as youtube-dl is being actively throttled by google #100

Closed incompetentcoder closed 2 years ago

incompetentcoder commented 2 years ago

Hello. Sadly, youtube-dl is being throttled, yt-dlp has a workaround for it and is almost a drop-in replacement, the python module however is in yt_dlp and not youtube_dl. I just replaced "youtube_dl" with "yt_dlp" in core.py and updater.py and it now works just fine. Maybe add a check if youtube_dl fails to look for yt_dlp or add a config option to specify which "youtube downloader"?

Thanks for your work!

Glandos commented 2 years ago

I need to look for the upstream issue. Here it is: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30075

EmRowlands commented 2 years ago

You can already specify this in mpv options, see: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9257#issuecomment-931558311

woefe commented 2 years ago

I've tried to incorporate yt-dlp. It works, but ytcc subscribe and ytcc update are noticeably slower with yt-dlp. Haven't found the time to troubleshoot further. The current work is in #101

Thank you @EmRowlands for the link to that issue. I think for now that's the best workaround. Fast ytcc update with youtube-dl and playback in mpv without stuttering.

woefe commented 2 years ago

Sorted out some of the performance issues. Starting with 3a4e7bf, ytcc prefers yt-dlp over youtube-dl if yt-dlp is installed.

incompetentcoder commented 2 years ago

Thanks!