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  • Re: clipgrab

    From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Sat Feb 1 21:06:54 2025
    On 2025-01-27 13:12, TJ wrote:

    I had an alternative method, a Firefox extension called "Video DownloadHelper." It's more ponderous than Clipgrab, but it did work. I
    say "did" because it quit working on Youtube about two days after
    Clipgrab did.

    FWIW, the above Video DownloadHelper issued an update a day or two
    ago,and is now working with Youtube again.

    TJ

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Sun Feb 2 14:52:15 2025
    On 2025-01-26 20:26, faeychild wrote:

     Until very recently I used clipgrab to download Youtube video. It
    started to get picky and now refuses completely

    "No video found"

    Google suggests that this was a problem with MGA8, well, more with
    Youtube shifting the goalposts.
    David suggested some pretty hands on solutions and I found another one involving Github.
    I've avoided Github so far, a bit above my pay grade

    Has anyone else blundered into this and fixed it


    A Mageia 9 update to yt-dlp has been tested and approved, and it appears
    to fix the Clipgrab issue. There's some administrative tasks that still
    need to be done, but it should be released in a day or two.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sun Feb 2 20:36:43 2025
    On 3/2/25 01:52, TJ wrote:


    A Mageia 9 update to yt-dlp has been tested and approved, and it appears
    to fix the Clipgrab issue. There's some administrative tasks that still
    need to be done, but it should be released in a day or two.

    TJ

    Thanks TJ
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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Feb 4 02:19:24 2025
    On 3/2/25 01:52, TJ wrote:

    A Mageia 9 update to yt-dlp has been tested and approved, and it appears
    to fix the Clipgrab issue. There's some administrative tasks that still
    need to be done, but it should be released in a day or two.

    TJ

    It showed up this morning in the update and we're back on the road

    How many months do you give the reprieve?

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    faeychild
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    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Tue Feb 4 16:48:03 2025
    On 2025-02-03 21:19, faeychild wrote:
    On 3/2/25 01:52, TJ wrote:

    A Mageia 9 update to yt-dlp has been tested and approved, and it
    appears to fix the Clipgrab issue. There's some administrative tasks
    that still need to be done, but it should be released in a day or two.

    TJ

    It showed up this morning in the update and we're back on the road

    How many months do you give the reprieve?

    That's entirely up to Alphabet. (Parent company of Google, Youtube, etc.)

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Feb 4 20:30:00 2025
    On 5/2/25 03:48, TJ wrote:

    That's entirely up to Alphabet. (Parent company of Google, Youtube, etc.)

    TJ

    Does it serve a purpose or are they just practicing code?

    We'll change , see how long it takes you to get around it
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    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Wed Feb 5 14:40:52 2025
    On 2025-02-04 15:30, faeychild wrote:
    On 5/2/25 03:48, TJ wrote:

    That's entirely up to Alphabet. (Parent company of Google, Youtube, etc.)

    TJ

    Does it serve a purpose or are they just practicing code?

    We'll change , see how long it takes you to get around it

    They want you to have to watch on Youtube itself, so they can collect advertising revenue, or a subscription fee. If you can download a video,
    and watch it elsewhere, they collect nothing.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Feb 7 21:28:33 2025
    On 6/2/25 01:40, TJ wrote:


    They want you to have to watch on Youtube itself, so they can collect advertising revenue, or a subscription fee. If you can download a video,
    and watch it elsewhere, they collect nothing.

    TJ

    Yes All true.
    The vast majority of YT is watched live. Just the occasional clip is downloaded.. But I see their point.
    I wonder how much revenue these downloads cost them.
    For academic curiosity how difficult is it to detect the difference
    between a normal stream and download grab.
    For a difficult TV channel stream I had to resort to a screen record.
    It ties up the computer, but it works

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    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.74-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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