Re: [NonGNU ELPA] Package suggestion: yeetube

[Thanos Apollo]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

[...]
>   > >     Search Youtube for query
>
> It must not use the actual youtube site, since that requires 
> users to
> run nonfree JS software.  However, it is ok to access those 
> videos
> using the invidio.us proxies.

I'm not a web developer (or any kind of developer), but I don't 
think it uses any javascipt, apologies for my ignorance if that's 
not the case. I wanted this to be an 'Invidious' but as a text 
buffer for Emacs, without relying on the invidious project.


>   > >     Play video url, by default using mpv
>
> Is there a specific reason to prefer mpv rather than vlc?
> I don't know which is better, but if we are going to make Emacs
> prefer one, let's find which one is better and why.

It has a custom option to use any other media player. I'm just 
familiar with mpv.

For example you can use GNU/Emms like so:

```
(setf yeetube-player #'emms-play-url)
```

which you can setup to use vlc.


>   > >     Download video using yt-dlp
>
> Does this work on invidio.us?

Yes

>   > >     A minimal yt-dlp front-end, which is independent of 
>   > >     the rest
>
> Can someone explain this concreely?
>
>   > >     YouTube functionality, to download multiple urls.
>
> Can someone explain this concreely?

yt-dlp is not specific to youtube. You can use it download videos 
from news sites etc since it accepts any m3u/mpd url


If you are familiar with ffmpeg, it works similarly to this 
command (function wise):


```
ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,crypto,data,https,tls,tcp -stats 
-i <URL.m3u> -codec copy <FILE.mp4>
```

e.g `yeetube-download-videos` just prompts the user to input any 
URL they like and downloads them as NAME. It also includes custom 
options to export content as audio only format etc.

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