Release YTDownloader, a simple tool to download Youtube videos


This is probably just a coincidence because I was downloading videos yesterday (torpor's post was yesterday morning), but when I tried to download some videos just now, it failed... on both this and get-flash-videos. I'm on my university's network right now, so if it doesn't start working again sporadically, I'll check if it works on our network when I get home.


EDIT: Actually, I think this started for me yesterday. I was downloading the TAS of Mario Adventure with get-flash-videos, and it was only half-done when it said it was done (I only found this out when I was watching the video and it ended prematurely). That was around noon, give or take an hour. Just now was the first time I tried downloading a video since then.
 
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onpon4 said:
This is probably just a coincidence because I was downloading videos yesterday (torpor's post was yesterday morning), but when I tried to download some videos just now, it failed... on both this and get-flash-videos. I'm on my university's network right now, so if it doesn't start working again sporadically, I'll check if it works on our network when I get home.


EDIT: Actually, I think this started for me yesterday. I was downloading the TAS of Mario Adventure with get-flash-videos, and it was only half-done when it said it was done (I only found this out when I was watching the video and it ended prematurely). That was around noon, give or take an hour. Just now was the first time I tried downloading a video since then.
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Allright I will look into that. I may take a few days to find a fix, or longer if this is youtube related...
 
I tried to download 4 videos yesterday, two failed - but also failed with get flash videos, I imagine this must be a change on Youtube's end then?
 
onpon4 said:
ekianjo said:
ok i found the problem. I will update the package tomorrow if I find enough time.
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Out of curiosity, what's the problem?
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Youtube modified their player somehow - I tried updating to the latest youtube-dl (the underlying script used by the app) and this worked again. I simply need to release the PND now, will be done later today (about 13hours from now).
 
I just encountered something really strange: it saved the files wrong. I told it to save in /media/sd_data/Videos (the video being a TAS of Monopoly for the NES), and it instead saved it under the appdata folder as "#media#sd_data#Videos#NES Monopoly TAS in 00#35.17 by Acmim-juE533Sepbg.flv". Looks like it isn't the first time this has happened; I also found some other videos there that I have downloaded before (they must have been downloads where I assumed it just didn't work and decided to use get-flash-videos instead).


It seems this is relatively rare, but it's definitely worth investigating.
 
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Allright, let me check this - can you give me the url of the video you mentioned ?


other than that the new version is at least functional again ? (I mean it downloads videos where the previous one stopped working?)
 
Yeah, it's at least functional.



Code: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juE533Sepbg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYXrekDfS7A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7-Z6YsroA


Only the first one was after the latest update, but I notice a pattern: all of these have a character in the video name that gets replaced with a hash. A colon in the first two, and a pipe ("|") in the third. Makes me think some characters in the names are messing it up.
 
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onpon4 said:
Yeah, it's at least functional.



Code: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juE533Sepbg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYXrekDfS7A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7-Z6YsroA


Only the first one was after the latest update, but I notice a pattern: all of these have a character in the video name that gets replaced with a hash. A colon in the first two, and a pipe ("|") in the third. Makes me think some characters in the names are messing it up.
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Ok let me check this out. Glad at least that it is working for downloading again (i tried before but always good to have confirmation :) )
 
Would it be possible to add an option to convert to mp3 or wav? I know at least one version of youtube-dl had an --extract-audio flag
 
Askarus said:
ekianjo said:
apersonthinks said:
Would it be possible to add an option to convert to mp3 or wav? I know at least one version of youtube-dl had an --extract-audio flag
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Yes, this is possible and this can be done. I will provide an option in GUI in the next version :) I think it is very useful as well.
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You're great :) .
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If all goes well it will be done tomorrow :) But if ffmpeg is not included in the standard libraries of the Pandora there is not much I can do (as this is a required library for such a function).
 
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put this in your script that is referenced from your PXML.xml file:



Code: 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="./lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

where lib is a folder in the root of your pnd folder that contains your linked libraries.
 
apersonthinks said:
put this in your script that is referenced from your PXML.xml file:



Code: 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="./lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

where lib is a folder in the root of your pnd folder that contains your linked libraries.
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Thanks - so if I do this, it will look for this folder as well for the right libraries, on top of the firmware ones ?
 
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