On 2018-01-26 03:20, gumb wrote:
On 26/01/18 02:52, Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm trying to use video download helper without much success.
There is an icon in the toolbar and when I go to the test page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDm8zTlP-mw as suggested by https://www.downloadhelper.net/howto#how-to-verify-video-downloadhelper-is-w...
and click on the icon, a list of videos pops up. If I choose one and select download, VDH opens a window with a title and X inside the window but no other content. There's nothing related to VDH in the browser console that I can see though I'm not sure what I'm looking at or for. There seem to be no videos downloaded anywhere.
Any suggestions are welcome.
I've always found the VDH interface weird and unintuitive. I still have it installed on another account but I switched to using "YouTube Video and Audio Downloader" a while ago which I prefer. The main drawback is that it seems to be strictly limited to YouTube and doesn't work on certain other video sites like VDL does.
I use the CLI, "youtube-dl". cer@Telcontar:~/tmp> youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDm8zTlP-mw" [youtube] UDm8zTlP-mw: Downloading webpage [youtube] UDm8zTlP-mw: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] UDm8zTlP-mw: Extracting video information WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv. [download] Destination: Jocly-JoclyGames-Jocly HTML5 3D games-UDm8zTlP-mw.f136.mp4 [download] 100% of 14.02MiB in 00:46 [download] Destination: Jocly-JoclyGames-Jocly HTML5 3D games-UDm8zTlP-mw.f251.webm [download] 100% of 1.96MiB in 00:24 [ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Jocly-JoclyGames-Jocly HTML5 3D games-UDm8zTlP-mw.mkv" Deleting original file Jocly-JoclyGames-Jocly HTML5 3D games-UDm8zTlP-mw.f136.mp4 (pass -k to keep) Deleting original file Jocly-JoclyGames-Jocly HTML5 3D games-UDm8zTlP-mw.f251.webm (pass -k to keep) cer@Telcontar:~/tmp> Got this: -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 16730627 Mar 11 2015 Jocly-JoclyGames-Jocly HTML5 3D games-UDm8zTlP-mw.mkv which plays fine in VLC and xine. (defaults changed in ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)