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Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

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798 points bertman | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.457s | source
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Tabular-Iceberg ◴[12 Nov 25 13:36 UTC] No.45899963[source]▶
I remember when QuickTime came out in 1991 and it was obvious to everyone that video should be copied, pasted and saved like any arbitrary data.

It's absolutely insane to me how bad the user experience is with video nowadays, even video that's not encumbered by DRM or complex JavaScript clients.

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1. reaperducer ◴[12 Nov 25 15:00 UTC] No.45901059[source]▶
I remember when QuickTime came out in 1991 and it was obvious to everyone that video should be copied, pasted and saved like any arbitrary data.

I remember when VCR's came out and everyone would take TV shows and share them with their friends.

By now we should be able to share video on SD Cards that just pop into a slot on the top of the TV, but the electronics companies are now also the content companies, so they don't want to.

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2. crtasm ◴[12 Nov 25 15:37 UTC] No.45901468[source]▶
You can plug a USB drive with videos on into a lot of TVs I've encountered over the years. Due to limited container/codec support I rarely made use of it though.