I wouldn’t need such a tool usually, but when I watch content in my native language, the sites are clearly overused, and the video blocks every 5 seconds. On Android I use LJ Video Downloader, and I’m wondering if there’s something for Windows.
Jdownloader2 is some horrid looking Java program that actually kicks ass.
Relevant thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32621021
tl;dr https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/ +
yt-dlpStacher, maybe? It’s a GUI frontend for yt-dlp and I’ve had success using it elsewhere besides YouTube but YMMV.
https://cobalt.tools/ works for some things that I’ve needed that yt-dlp wasnt able to
It doesnt do playlists tho so its a bit labor intensive—i have to really want the videos and be unable to source them literally anywhere else at the time and it requires you to schlepp thru each single video to download manually with cobalt. Copy paste, copy paste over and over till you get every item
It’s yt-dlp. Don’t mess with any of the front ends, just learn how to type “yt-dlp” and whatever flags you want then paste your url.
any reason why I should not just use Stacher? I used to use yt-dl as a kid but nowadays I like more chill approaches
It works better, stays up to date, has better error reporting, has better documentation, is more trustworthy and isn’t gonna become abandonware in the near future.
It’s probably also faster for you once you get used to it: (if you’re on a webpage with a video you wanna download) ctrl-l, ctrl-c, (open your command prompt, for me it’s win-r -> “cmd” -> enter), yt-dlp ctrl-v.
I can’t think of anything more chill than pasting the url. It’s got incredibly good defaults.
