YouTube download-and-convert website for ancient browsers (macintoshgarden.org)

30 points by alex_free 6y ago ↗ HN

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tedunangst 6y ago ↗

aka a Mac 10.4 only front end for youtube-dl.

alex_free 6y ago ↗

With all modern dependencies compiled by Xcode 2.5 for Mac OS X 10.3.9+

alex_free 6y ago ↗

This works on more then just that os, but it does require tiger rn to run the server.

w-ll 6y ago ↗

Is this up to date? Are there advantages over youtube-dl?

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

alex_free 6y ago ↗

This is YouTube-dl, but also:

-OpenSSL 1.1.1f (latest). -Curl 7.69.1 (latest). -FFMPEG 4.2.2 (latest). -Python 2.7.17 (latest Python 2). -LAME 3.99.5 (second to latest released). -Zlib 1.2.11 (latest). -Mozilla's Certificate Authority Certificates PEM extracted by the Curl project (latest). -Bzip2 1.0.8 (latest).

All compiled for Mac OS X 10.3.9+. And then theirs the web interface or app to choose from.

polygot 6y ago ↗

What are the advantages over pasting the YouTube link into VLC's stream from network stream? Are the codecs not supported in 10.3's VLC?