youtube-dl and KDE neon 18.04

[GreyGeek]

What chem says!
BUT, if you want a leading (not bleeding) edge experience with Plasma5 then use the developer's version.
My experience with the User's Edition + BTRFS was golden!

[joneall]

That's BTRFS on the system partition? Is that a choice during the install or must you do it ahead with GPTED?

[GreyGeek]

Yes. During the installation the section where you select an partition choose the "Manual" configuration. On the dialog that shows "Use as: EXT4" (EXT4 preselected) and the label as "/", the "EXT4" is a dropdown combo box. scroll down to select BTRFS.

[joneall]

What chem says!
BUT, if you want a leading (not bleeding) edge experience with Plasma5 then use the developer's version.
My experience with the User's Edition + BTRFS was golden!

Do I understand correctly that one can install both (on the same partition) and then select one or the other at boot?

[woodsmoke]

LOL
for a guy who compliments himself every once in a while that he has "the latest and greatest" for stuff like videos I did NOT know about youtube dl. Just shows how behind the times I am.
thanks for the thread!
woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Do I understand correctly that one can install both (on the same partition) and then select one or the other at boot?

Oshunluver shows the way in his posts in the BTFS subforum. Enjoy!

[woodsmoke]

This has been a Very informative thread!

As an aside I regularly d/l YouuuTuoooob vids to take to the college to use ONE TIME, it is in the copyright law and called "educational inspiration" under the fair use clause of U.S. Copyright because...I can then link to it in an Impress presentation as opposed to getting out of the presentation and into the browser etc. but anyway...

I decided to try YouTube-dl out and could not get it to work on my NEWly UPGRADED 14.04 to Bionic in KDE Neon developers edition.

There are MANY solutions on the net going back several years and especially lately since Yuuuuutuuuub has split the audio and video to stop people downloading stuff, they change things very often to get all those stupid people to purchase uuuutubeRed or whatever the latest interation is.

Anyway...

This is on my game machine which is the Kparadigm Shift mod of Kubu and I have a LOT of games on it many of which are waay out of date and many use Phyton.

This is what worked on my brand spankin' new upgrade to Bionic

BUT BE WARNED...

If you have much beloved python apps on your machine that are OLDER and HAVE NOT UPDATED...you may lose many of them,

SO WATCH THE MESSAGES and if it looks as if your app is going to be deleted maybe think on that.

But, here is what is needed as of the writing of this post:

sudo apt install python-pip

sudo pip install youtube-dl

to get the latest version of youtube-dl

sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

IF IT STOPS WORKING AT SOME TIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE IT IS PROBABLY BECAUSE YUUUTUUB HAS CHANGES THINGS AND ONE WILL HAVE TO DO THE UPGRADE MAYBE UNTIL THE KIND FOLKS AT YOUTUBE-DL GET THINGS FIXED.

just sayin' that I do not KNOW that the upgrade will automagically be done with a normal update.

This yanked probably fifteen games off my machine.

For folks not familiar with the command to download a yuutubbe video here is the fundamental command

youtube-dl URL

the command does NOT need a <> or "" or anything like that around the URL it should be the "https / www title hash numbers thing that is in the url box in search. Just copy and past all of it like this:

youtube-dl pasttheurl

notice the space between the "dl" and the URL

Youtube-dl has to deal with the first thing that it finds and Yooootuuub defaults to WebM so you will get a WebM download.

There are commands to convert to say an MP4 or with say subtitles these are provided in the command list in terminal.

For people who are not into CLI and this is a first foray and do not want to go a bridge too far one can convert the WebM very simply by playing it in VLC and converting using the convert function. You will have to search for the file which will be found in your home directory. VLC will take a while, but not the whole while of playing the vid and produces an MP4.

There are other video conversion programs such as Handbrake which is quite easy to use but it will make a .mkv file first.

I am not into python and use stuff "to get stuff done" and don't fiddle with tweaks too much.

When I get some free time I'll fiddle with the file output type commands but if someone wants to post a follow up on that feel free.

And as always, If I can be of help please holler.

woodsmoke

[chimak111]

What version of youtube-dl do you have with the `pip` route? I have 2018.10.05.

[woodsmoke]

Im away from the computer, I'll check and give an answser tomorrow or so.

woodsmoke