Re: [LAU] OT: youtube-dl stopped working

Rob wrote:
> On Thursday 22 July 2010 19:51, Ken Restivo wrote:
>> Hmm, I just tried it, and no go with Flash off. Even with Flash on, it
>> still didn't actually download anything.
>
> TM++ doesn't work with Youtube as far as I know, because Youtube uses plain
> old HTTP to grab videos and TM++ is for RTMP streaming, which no browser
> plugin will currently handle.
>
> And you do have to let the file play in the flash applet in order for TM++
> to grab it; you just don't need sound turned on. The last time I used it
> was to grab a friend's song from his Myspace account, or maybe it was
> ReverbNation. Can't think offhand of which sites stream video that way,
> but I've encountered a few.
>
> Anyway, TM++ is something to be used as a fallback for those sites that
> aren't, and likely will never be, supported by the various Firefox
> extensions out there that work by scraping the site. Downloadhelper still
> works on Youtube as of when I tried it just now, but they may have come out
> with an update in the last few days without my noticing it.

I don't remember any updates recently - more than a couple weeks ago,
probably. Used it yesterday with YoutTube, worked fine.

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