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  • Re Clipgrab

    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Monday, April 28, 2025 23:25:34

    Once again clipgrab has been broken and I went back to my previous
    complaint.
    Where David kindly reminded that yt-dlp is a command line program which
    I have successfully used.
    Thank you David
    I reminisced, In the good old days the Bit Twister would probably have
    had a ready Bash wrapper script to do just that

    Regards
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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, May 04, 2025 22:56:02
    On 2025-04-28 18:25, faeychild wrote:

    Once again clipgrab has been broken and I went back to my previous complaint.
    Where David kindly reminded that yt-dlp is a command line program which
    I have successfully used.
    Thank you David
    I reminisced, In the good old days the  Bit Twister would probably have
    had a ready Bash wrapper script to do just that

    Regards

    I have filed a Mageia bug on the situation. I'm sure someone will get to
    it soon.

    There is a new yt-dlp available as of just a few days ago. That may fix
    the problem.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, May 04, 2025 23:14:24
    On 5/5/25 07:56, TJ wrote:

    I have filed a Mageia bug on the situation. I'm sure someone will get to
    it soon.

    I'm not sure they will ever keep up. Moving goal posts


    There is a new yt-dlp available as of just a few days ago. That may fix
    the problem.

    TJ

    It's part of a package, is it not?


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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, May 04, 2025 23:24:33
    On 5/5/25 08:14, faeychild wrote:
    On 5/5/25 07:56, TJ wrote:

    I have filed a Mageia bug on the situation. I'm sure someone will get
    to it soon.

    I'm not sure they will ever keep up. Moving goal posts


    There is a new yt-dlp available as of just a few days ago. That may
    fix the problem.

    TJ

    It's part of a package, is it not?




    Ah Nope
    I have checked with MCC It seems to be stand alone program
    It says version 2025.01.26 and indicates it is downloaded

    The old one does work but strangely. The downloaded video file only
    plays audio unless I run it through ffmpeg.

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    faeychild
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    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Monday, May 05, 2025 12:20:55
    On 2025-05-04 18:24, faeychild wrote:
    On 5/5/25 08:14, faeychild wrote:
    On 5/5/25 07:56, TJ wrote:

    I have filed a Mageia bug on the situation. I'm sure someone will get
    to it soon.

    I'm not sure they will ever keep up. Moving goal posts


    There is a new yt-dlp available as of just a few days ago. That may
    fix the problem.

    TJ

    It's part of a package, is it not?




    Ah Nope
    I have checked with MCC  It seems to be stand alone program
    It says version 2025.01.26 and indicates it is downloaded

    The old one does work but strangely. The downloaded video file only
    plays audio  unless I run it through ffmpeg.

    Clipgrab crashes on me with any Youtube URL before doing much of
    anything. Shows a segmentation fault if run from the command line. Works
    OK with other URLs, like the Internet Archive.

    TJ

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 13:35:01
    On 2025-05-04 18:14, faeychild wrote:
    On 5/5/25 07:56, TJ wrote:

    I have filed a Mageia bug on the situation. I'm sure someone will get
    to it soon.

    I'm not sure they will ever keep up. Moving goal posts


    There is a new yt-dlp available as of just a few days ago. That may
    fix the problem.

    TJ

    It's part of a package, is it not?


    An update to Mageia's yt-dlp has been tested and passed, and is one step
    away from being sent to the mirrors. It lets Clipgrab work with Youtube
    again.

    For now. Past experience shows it may only last a few months before it
    has to be done again.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 23:25:05
    On 7/5/25 22:35, TJ wrote:

    An update to Mageia's yt-dlp has been tested and passed, and is one step away from being sent to the mirrors. It lets Clipgrab work with Youtube again.

    For now. Past experience shows it may only last a few months before it
    has to be done again.

    TJ



    I currently use yt-dlp on command line with the clip address

    eg
    yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1aETDkB9R3Q

    It plays back audio only for whatever reason and needs to be passed
    through ffmpeg


    ffmpeg -i youtubeclip.mp4 youtubeclipmod.mp4

    It's messy but it does work and it could be scripted


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    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.88-desktop-3.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Thursday, May 08, 2025 12:31:19
    On 2025-05-07 18:25, faeychild wrote:
    On 7/5/25 22:35, TJ wrote:

    An update to Mageia's yt-dlp has been tested and passed, and is one
    step away from being sent to the mirrors. It lets Clipgrab work with
    Youtube again.

    For now. Past experience shows it may only last a few months before it
    has to be done again.

    TJ



    I currently use  yt-dlp  on command line with the clip address

    eg
    yt-dlp  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1aETDkB9R3Q

    It plays back audio only for whatever reason and needs to be passed
    through ffmpeg


    ffmpeg  -i  youtubeclip.mp4   youtubeclipmod.mp4

    It's messy but it does work and it could be scripted


    I saw that when I used yt-dlp from the command line during testing. I
    thought at the time that it had something to do with the webm container, though vlc should have been able to play it. Could be it was something
    Youtube did, and that was why Clipgrab borked. I probably would have
    used Handbrake to convert it, because despite over 20 years of using
    Linux I'm still more comfortable with a good GUI than the command line.

    But, at the moment Clipgrab will handle the conversion of format and/or resolution in just the one step.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Thursday, May 08, 2025 22:38:28
    On 8/5/25 21:31, TJ wrote:


    I saw that when I used yt-dlp from the command line during testing. I thought at the time that it had something to do with the webm container, though vlc should have been able to play it. Could be it was something Youtube did, and that was why Clipgrab borked. I probably would have
    used Handbrake to convert it, because despite over 20 years of using
    Linux I'm still more comfortable with a good GUI than the command line.

    But, at the moment Clipgrab will handle the conversion of format and/or resolution in just the one step.

    TJ



    I agree! Let's blame Youtube, a nice soft deserving target :-)


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    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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