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Alternative for YouTube? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SillyLilJester@lemmy.world to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I watch YouTube when I eat etc. I pretty much solely watch gameplays. Is there any alternative? Or an opensource way to view YouTube? I don't want to use Twitch because Amazon and I grew out of enjoying streamers in my late teens and it's been a while since.

Edit: I don't ever use it on mobile. Desktop via Firefox only.

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[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had the same problem, to work properly app need to set proper arguments like "yt-dlp -abcd" and some people had problem with downloading speed, this problem was solved with usage of custom downloader option of yt-dlp, as custom downloader aria2 app was used with options to split downloaded file into 16 chunks downloaded in parallel, also as channels change names of videos you can accidentally download same file multiple times, to avoid that use dedication like fdupes or something, imo you should delve deeper into it and slap some bash script for your personal needs), then recurring cron job to repeat that script when you need it

[–] Zebov@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well since I did none of that, that would explain why it didn't work. Thanks again!