Unfortunately, it seems that #YouTube is now successfully preventing videos from being downloaded.

For days now, #ytdlp fails and returns 403 forbidden.

I will never accept that watching video material requires a connection to the internet.

I don't think of myself as a digital hoarder until it comes to music videos.

A music video I liked on YouTube was pulled offline and to this day it haunts me. I don't even remember what video it is.

Now, when I see a video I like, instant #ytdlp

Ja, der Grund ist, dass ein Konzern mit einen Zig-Milliarden-Gewinn seinen Hals nicht voll genug bekommt.

Als ob diese hyperbeschissenen KI-Audiotracks nicht nervig genug seien.

Steckt den guten Creators das Geld möglichst direkt zu, damit die sich schneller von YouTube lösen können.

Go #FreeTube, #ytdlp, #NewPipe, #LibreTube und vor allem #PeerTube!

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So now #Google #YouTube is pulling out all the stops to keep #ytdlp from working -__-

"Some tv client https formats have been skipped as they are DRM protected. Your account may have an experiment that applies DRM to all videos on the tv client. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 for more details."

"Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12482 for more detail"

Some hero is out there on GitHub working on an SABR implementation and even has a PR ready, but FFS. This is getting to the point where I'd rather just blackhole YouTube entirely and wait for the next big thing, to hell with whatever I might miss out on.

Interestingly, #YouTube claims that showing content on how to #download or even #watch #videos hosted on their site as "#HarmfulContent"...

• And I'm not talking about 'bypassing paywalls' or 'circumventing age restrictions' but merely saying that '#YoutubeDLP got an #update' or 'a new #Invidious release came out.'

So not even encouraging "#crimes" like #piracy. (Which OFC they don't want to see on their platform!)

• Simply having #ytdlp being shown as one of many programs in the #Flatpak Repo of #LinuxMint is apparently sufficient to get a video yeeted off the platform.

Seriously, WTF!?

• Even #LinusTechTips and @geerlingguy ain't safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJ6eGll8HU

Apparently (per #ytdlp) #YouTube is A/B testing #DRM on all videos:

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue…

Desde que regresé a LineageOS me encontré con un inesperado desafío: Ya no podía escuchar música desde la app de YT Music.

Antes usaba una app libre llamada InnerTune, que se rompió completamente desde que Google cambió su API, y hoy en día sigue sin funcionar al menos desde el repositorio oficial. Al ver esto, y dado que tuve que regresar temporalmente a MIUI porque mi universidad me lo exigía, comencé a utilizar YT Music sin más tema. Sin embargo, al haber vuelto a LOS, y al no tener GApps, pues ya la app ni siquiera abre jajaja. Traté de utilizarla desde el navegador web, pero es medio que un martirio; se traba, se pausa, no puedo descargar canciones, y otro puñado de cosas que hicieron que en mí surgiera la necesidad de descargar mi música para tenerla accesible en cualquier momento, y potencialmente en cualquier lugar.

Por esta razón, hago el anuncio de que desarrollé un servicio web para descargar música desde YT Music. Es un servicio con enfoque autohosteable y descentralizado, por lo que cualquier persona con el tiempo y las ganas puede levantarse su propia instancia privada o pública. El proyecto sigue en una etapa temprana, por lo que aún no tiene mucho; descarga canciones individuales y playlists, las comprime en un archivo ZIP y permite descargarlas. También agrega cosas como los metadatos y el AlbumArt para cada canción, y permite descargar en distintos formatos (como mp3, opus, ogg y flac). Poco a poco puliré el software y le agregaré más cosas; mejor aún si alguien comienza a contribuir en el repositorio.

Levantaré una instancia "oficial" en mi dominio, pero no la anunciaré por aquí para evitar que demasiada gente la use, pues eso comprometería mi ancho de banda y aumentaría la vulnerabilidad del proyecto ante ataques o censura. Pondré el link en la sección de "Servicios" de mi página web, y ahí estará para quien lo quiera probar. El repositorio está en https://codeberg.org/Autumn64/Elisifier, y cualquier persona es bienvenida de contribuir, así como de clonar el repositorio y levantar su propia instancia.

¡Muchas gracias por el apoyo!

anyone have recommendations/howto for #streaming #LiveTV from #UK broadcasters online (on Debian Linux)? I use #YTDLP now for downloading but it doesn't do live streaming, back in the day I used #GetIPlayer for BBC and that project dropped live streaming support some time since too.

not so interested in download/watch-on-demand things, want to access live channels in digital format to maintain/repair my #FractalChannelHopping art project: https://mathr.co.uk/blog/2015-12-22_fractal_channel_hopping.html

SD resolution or even smaller would be perfectly fine. I have a #BBC account (and could make #ITV / #Channel4 / etc accounts if necessary) and my home (in the UK) has a #television license and fast internet.

Is a USB hub with a bunch of DVB-T tuner dongles something I should consider instead? Is DVB-T an international standard? (e.g. if I wanted to try it in Europe or beyond?)

This is news from a month ago, but apparently YouTube is currently experimenting with adding DRM to all videos, but only if you're using certain clients and your user is in the respective A/B test group.

Normal browsers are not affected, but yt-dlp for example is. (Again, only for _some_ users.)

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563

Hacker News has some additional explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321145

In short: No reason to panic, but some concern is appropriate.

Anyone else noticed that you have to update yt-dlp a lot more frequently than before for it to work?

It used to be that updating it every couple of weeks would be good enough (IIRC), and that when it needed an update, it would work, but just be flaky.

Now it seems to break every few days, and break completely.

Seems the war with #Google is really heating up. :'(