Release YTDownloader, a simple tool to download Youtube videos

[apersonthinks]

Yep, and if you steal copy the libraries/binaries from StreaK's cli love pnd, you might not even need to compile them. To convert to mp3 you have to do ffmpeg -i <video> <wavfile> and then lame <wavfile> <mp3file> as for some reason it wont let you convert to mp3 directly.

 

[ekianjo]

Yep, and if you steal copy the libraries/binaries from StreaK's cli love pnd, you might not even need to compile them. To convert to mp3 you have to do ffmpeg -i <video> <wavfile> and then lame <wavfile> <mp3file> as for some reason it wont let you convert to mp3 directly.

I tried with youtube-dl and it needs the ffprobe library which is not included in the firmware. Do you know if ffprobe is included in Streak's pnd ?


By the way are you sure you cannot convert directly from video to mp3 with ffmpeg?

 

[apersonthinks]

you can always search the cli love pnd for the library. And yes i've tried multiple times to convert video to mp3.

 

[ekianjo]

I just released a new version of YTDownloader, using a very recent version of youtube-dl which is at the core of this app.

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=ytdownloader

I tested and it seems to work fine. Please update and check as well if this version works well for you

Thanks.

 

[PowerGod]

Thank you, I'll try it.

 

[Neelix]

It doesn't seem to like https urls. Is there any chance of implementing https downloads? if not, could https addresses be automatically modified to http?

- Neelix

 

[ekianjo]

It doesn't seem to like https urls. Is there any chance of implementing https downloads? if not, could https addresses be automatically modified to http?


- Neelix

If you remove the "s" in https it works just as fine. 

But yes, it's a small bug and I can fix that very quickly. Just wait for the weekend

 

[ekianjo]

New version in the repo correcting the problem with Https addresses!

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=ytdownloader

 

[Neelix]

Cheers!

- Neelix

 

[ekianjo]

Just added the youtube playlist support!

Build 5 / April 15, 2013: Added playlist support + reorganized the video formats.

The list should be in the following format:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=

with or without https

The playlist support also recognizes if you have already downloaded some files and restart at the last point so you do not start from zero.

Please be careful the percentage shown in the progress bar is only for each file, not for the total playlist. For now I cannot show the overall progress but i'll work on that.

 

[ekianjo]

Latest update, Build 6: i added support for Vimeo videos downloads. Seems to work fine. Minor interface changes as well.

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=ytdownloader

 

[klapse]

Thanks for his vital tool ekianjo!

 

[ekianjo]

You're welcome!

 

[Askarus]

Playlist support?

You're my hero now .

 

[ekianjo]

Playlist support?

You're my hero now .

Please test and report if it works

 

[Askarus]

Tested and works .

 

[ekianjo]

Please tell me why playlist support is interesting because I do not use it myself!

 

[Askarus]

From time to time I want to download some music from YouTube.

Mostly Video Game Music. I like game rips, especially if no Soundtrack CD exists.

(YouTube to mp3 would be nice)

Also for some short clips it's nice.

If there are some fun nonsense videos you want to show to a friend it's nice to insert one URL and the Computer does the rest.

Of course I won't download lots of stuff on Pandora as it's slow but I already was in the situation I wanted to download a playlist.

It was the storyline of a game. It was split into 5 parts.

I wanted to download them all and watch later.

Would have been much more comfortable if I didn't have to download every single file.

(I watched them in low Pandora quality without downloading)

As I sad it's surely not often used on Pandora because my computer is much faster but if the computer isn't available I might need it from time to time.

 

[ekianjo]

Youtube to mp3 could be possible but it requires a bit more work. There are a number of things I want to improve in the current version before jumping to that

Thanks for explaining the benefit of using playlists, I was not familiar with their usage

 

[Askarus]

What I might also like is multiple URL support.

If I want to use some videos in a presentation at University I first seek them all and copy them into the downloader.

After collecting all URLs I press downlaod and everything gets downloaded.

It saves lots of time and makes life easy.

The downloader I have oob my Widnows computer works that way.

Pretty nice.

If you want to improve music download here are some ideas:

1: [Optional] Add numbers in front of the file name

-> Helps for playlists without numbers in the name.

2: Combine it with easy tag

-> Before downloading the playlist you may edit the Album and Artist and such for every video

-> Use filename as tiitle

3: Support for different quality (up to 320 kbps)

Of course other updates are welcome as well .