• redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
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    1 year ago

    You’ can try installing yt-dlp. That one is still actively maintained. YouTube also actively trying to broke it, so the one available in debian repo might be out of date.

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      1 year ago

      looks like it is using DLP backend, didn’t read the whole error

      [ytdl_hook] ERROR: [youtube] BBJa32lCaaY: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
      [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred
      Failed to recognize file format.
      

      Let’s hope youtube hasn’t finally ground the project permanently

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        1 year ago

        At the risk of being a ‘works for me’ guy, I tried downloading and playing a couple random videos and it worked on version 2023.07.06. So hopefully yt-dlp is alive and kicking!