[youtube-dl] Download files from youtube.com or other video platforms

[EEPhil]

I've used a 5000T and the audio/video outputs to capture on a PC recording dongle (Hauppauge DVB-T Stick with component input) to capture some Walter Presents from C4 (streaming only) If they didn't f&@+ the ends up it would have been satisfactory. Unfortunately most other channels online streaming apps no longer work on the 5000T.

Edit: As usual, I've gone off topic. Sorry!

 

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I'm having problems with youtube-dl version 2025.07.01 (I believe that's the latest?) for this URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgHMrLPQrE

(The Making of Tron 1982 Full Documentary)...

Yes, even the upstream version is broken because
1. YT started sending the challenge that had to be solved to get valid media links in a spaghettified form that was essentially impossible to extract and run in our toy JS interpreter.
2. The stopgap solution expired.
3. A subsequently discovered stopgap, if still working, hasn't yet been committed.
4. The yt-dlp solution would require at a minimum getting QuickJS to run on the Humax platform, which I have not yet done, pllus back-porting a load of Python3.10 code to run on 2.7.1.

...
It would not surprise me if (one day) the next build can't run on our HDR-FOXes. You might benefit from switching to a PC build now – they are revised more quickly.

youtube-dl should continue to be usable (in fact the hack to use wget for network requests needs to be back-ported to the main repository so that we can use curl-cffi to break TLS sniffing (but extractors that need that won't be supported here). Similarly, it's possible that impractical dependencies will make the version here notyoutube-dl; but even if the YT media link processing can''t be run locally there is yt-cipher, a web service that could be used directly or maybe hosted on hpkg.tv.

Edit: not yt-cypher!

 

[prpr]

there is yt-cypher

That just generates a 404 for me, so I guess it's a private repository.