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everdrive ◴[12 Nov 25 13:31 UTC] No.45899905[source]▶

Perhaps a stupid question, but is there some reason I can't potentially fall back to recording my screen / audio in realtime and saving videos that way? yt-dlp is obviously far superior to this, but just thinking about what my fallback points are.

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crazygringo ◴[12 Nov 25 13:34 UTC] No.45899931[source]▶

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You definitely can, it's just 1) vastly slower, and 2) you have to recompress the decompressed video, which loses quality. It's therefore an option of last resort.

Most people want to be able to download 5 hours of video in the background in 5 minutes. Not wait 5 hours while their computer is unusable.

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1. everdrive ◴[12 Nov 25 13:41 UTC] No.45900049[source]▶

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Understood and agreed. I mostly don't even care about keeping videos from Youtube, but some of the most amazing music performances in the world are trapped on Youtube, and in many cases there is no obvious way to purchase or download them elsewhere.

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAi1pn3kBqE

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