Also, some m3u8’s are just files containing redirects to other m3u8’s in various resolutions. You might want to extract the one you need and download that.
You are the only person legend who, with this command, has allowed me to download a video from a shitty website that “breaks” the movies/series into small pieces. THANK YOU
I have VideoDownloadHelper addon for Firefox, and most of the time it works. There are some exceptions of course, where it cannot download the video. But I love finding out new ways to do it, in case the old ways fail one day. Good post, man!
This doesn’t have to do with the topic at hand, but it’s just so cool being able to directly reference sites and ways to download on Lemmy, rather than dancing around the topic on Reddit.
It changed after they banned r/megalinks. I remember the day. The piracy sub purged content around that time. Then 2-3 years later the sports streaming subs went down.
Edit: It seems yt-dlp was at some point moved from AUR to Extra. I was half expecting it to happen eventually since youtube-dl stopped working about a year ago, but I never noticed it happening.
Either way, as it’s a package on extra instead of AUR there’s a lot less of a security concern for anyone worried about that.
Original comment:
I have yt-dlp from the AUR (Arch User Repository). youtube-dl package also exists, and it’s on extra, but it stopped working about half a year ago
like I said only the original youtube-dl package is in extra but it stopped working a while back.
since then I’ve been using the youtube-dl forkyt-dlp that OP mentioned, but it’s in aur atm since it hasn’t gotten as recognized as it’s a fork (I assume)
Basically yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, and unlike youtube-dl it’s in aur instead of extra.
At least last I checked all youtube-dl forks are in aur, but you have to use yt-dlp (or maybe one of the other forks) since youtube-dl doesn’t work anymore.
My fellow crewmen, yt-dlp is great but you don’t need it if you have vlc installed on your pc, you could just open Convert / Save function (Ctrl + R for shortcut), click the “Network” tab", paste the hls (m3u8) or dash (mpd) link and save it as you normally would.
They have a lot of good tools and guides for getting setup to pull drm encrypted streams. You’ll need access to an android device that has root to be able to pull drm keys from. It took me a bit to figure out how to get it setup. They had to remove the all in one setup page so the software is outdated but I followed this (https://web.archive.org/web/20230315101847/https://cdm-project.com/cdm-tools/how-to) and just searched for the latest versions of the software they reference and got it working to download off disney+ and wowpresentsplus
Friends yt-dlp is safe? Im asking because Virustotal (Lumu) say its malware when I paste this link there https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases, could be false positive of course, but I prefer to know first because I search something to download YT videos in safe way. For me will be great like first post say press this, search that - but I cant find m3u8 file anyway (Firefox here). Maybe Pytube? Thank you for tips.
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Alternatively,
ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,crypto,data,https,tls,tcp -stats -i <URL.m3u8> -codec copy <FILE.mp4>.Also, some m3u8’s are just files containing redirects to other m3u8’s in various resolutions. You might want to extract the one you need and download that.
You are the only
personlegend who, with this command, has allowed me to download a video from a shitty website that “breaks” the movies/series into small pieces. THANK YOUEDIT: Movie, not Film
Is there any way to save this post for later?
I have VideoDownloadHelper addon for Firefox, and most of the time it works. There are some exceptions of course, where it cannot download the video. But I love finding out new ways to do it, in case the old ways fail one day. Good post, man!
Thanks!
It’s a must have add on, but it’s still just an add on, we should know the basics of what’s happening behind the scenes to sail the 7 seas.
The reason I posted that is to inspire some of you in creating fancy scripts that can easily do more than just downloading one video.
This doesn’t have to do with the topic at hand, but it’s just so cool being able to directly reference sites and ways to download on Lemmy, rather than dancing around the topic on Reddit.
Until copyright owners start banging on providers of those who host these instances sadly. Give it a few years and we will be back there
This is what Reddit was like in the golden era, ~2010-2014ish
It changed after they banned r/megalinks. I remember the day. The piracy sub purged content around that time. Then 2-3 years later the sports streaming subs went down.
Edit: It seems yt-dlp was at some point moved from AUR to Extra. I was half expecting it to happen eventually since youtube-dl stopped working about a year ago, but I never noticed it happening.
Either way, as it’s a package on extra instead of AUR there’s a lot less of a security concern for anyone worried about that.
Original comment:
I have yt-dlp from the AUR (Arch User Repository). youtube-dl package also exists, and it’s on extra, but it stopped working about half a year ago@Astaroth, why do you use yt-dlp from aur if it is also in
extrarepository?like I said only the original youtube-dl package is in
extrabut it stopped working a while back.since then I’ve been using the
youtube-dl forkyt-dlp that OP mentioned, but it’s inauratm since it hasn’t gotten as recognized as it’s a fork (I assume)Basically yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, and unlike youtube-dl it’s in aur instead of extra.
At least last I checked all youtube-dl forks are in aur, but you have to use yt-dlp (or maybe one of the other forks) since youtube-dl doesn’t work anymore.
You are wrong. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/yt-dlp/ yt-dlp is in the extra repository (has been for a long time now) as they said. No need to install it from the AUR
Interesting. I’m pretty sure it was on AUR when I installed quite a while back, but looks like it’s in Extra now yeah.
It does make sense though since youtube-dl hasn’t been working for about a year.
I should’ve checked before commenting
Don’t sweat it bro
My fellow crewmen, yt-dlp is great but you don’t need it if you have vlc installed on your pc, you could just open Convert / Save function (Ctrl + R for shortcut), click the “Network” tab", paste the hls (m3u8) or dash (mpd) link and save it as you normally would.
Any website? Including all the streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, etc?
https://cdm-project.com/
They have a lot of good tools and guides for getting setup to pull drm encrypted streams. You’ll need access to an android device that has root to be able to pull drm keys from. It took me a bit to figure out how to get it setup. They had to remove the all in one setup page so the software is outdated but I followed this (https://web.archive.org/web/20230315101847/https://cdm-project.com/cdm-tools/how-to) and just searched for the latest versions of the software they reference and got it working to download off disney+ and wowpresentsplus
Spotdl for downloading Spotify music. It’s amazing also
This works only for websites that don’t use DRM, such as Widevine. But there’re guides to decrypt the videos anyways. Tough luck with Widevine L1 tho.
Use firefox with arkenfox, then you wont have to enable DRM to stream videos
Friends yt-dlp is safe? Im asking because Virustotal (Lumu) say its malware when I paste this link there https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases, could be false positive of course, but I prefer to know first because I search something to download YT videos in safe way. For me will be great like first post say press this, search that - but I cant find m3u8 file anyway (Firefox here). Maybe Pytube? Thank you for tips.
you can download it from all linux package managers i’ve tried. not sure if linux counts as malware or not.
Linux is definitely malware. I installed it and I haven’t been able to use my computer since