[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!

 

[/df]

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, even if 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.

 

[martinr]

Well, it was really great while it lasted, and a huge “thank you” to all those who made it possible. WM Recorder on Windows and a file transfer to the Fox T2 HDR in future, if really necessary.

 

[/df]

Nor so fast, though. We should still be able to do something with YT in the short term even if formats and logged-in features are limited.

If I or someone can get QuickJS running on the Humax platform, all bets are on, even if they may take eons to cash in. The author is the creator of ffmpeg which is already ported.

 

[prpr]

If I or someone can get QuickJS running on the Humax platform

Stumbling block seems to be it needs a C compiler with c11 support and we only have a (cross-)compiler that does c99 (bypassing fenv.h and then falling over on stdatomic.h).

 

[Owen Smith]

Stumbling block seems to be it needs a C compiler with c11 support and we only have a (cross-)compiler that does c99 (bypassing fenv.h and then falling over on stdatomic.h).

I'm still working with C90 compilers at work, with some C99 extensions eg long long for 64 bit integers.