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[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Backup YouTube now. Be sure to embed chapters, metadata and sub titles.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure I’ll just put that on my 10 Exabyte drive. On my 100Gbps connection.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I backed up a few dozen channels on a spare 3TB drive. Planning on making torrents to add to a seedbox later.

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What’s the best method for maintaining quality when backing up a YT vid?

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yt-dlp usually picks the best flags by default but may need your browser cookies. I usually manually set <=1080p

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Does it dependent on connection speed, or does it fully buffer before capturing? I find sometimes there’s some sections that will refuse to improve even if going back and replaying sometimes. Though I also wonder if sponsorblock can cut out sponsor segments from the finished product. Guessing it’s either/or?

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm working on my music playlist. It's 1200 videos long and yt-DPP only gets Patr of the list. How can I download the full list?

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean it's skipping some of the entries in the actual playlist, or it's just only getting the first x entries and then stopping?

I haven't personally found a solution to random skipping to that other than allowing yt-dlp to use your account credentials/cookie to act as though it's a signed-in user. YouTube is randomly deciding to block either some or all download attempts from non-signed-in clients, like yt-dlp.

If it's just stopping after x number of videos, I have absolutely no clue.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

The first 98/1200 vids, something about api page 1

[–] DahGangalang 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Aren't there already basically projects for this? Seems like there's a local download leftover on a newpipe server when someone plays a video through it?

I know very little about this, but seems like if was a reason for "why running your own newpipe server could be troublesome"

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Nothing unified I'm aware of. I figured the YouTube ID thing would push pirate sites to add sections though.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you confusing NewPipe for Piped?

[–] DahGangalang 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds like something I'd do.

Was thinking "was new pipe the right project to reference in that comment" and I don't think it was.