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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: 0.398s | 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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physicsguy ◴[12 Nov 25 14:54 UTC] No.45900981[source]▶
Remember RealPlayer? Grainy 128 x 128 streamed videos in 1998!
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1. weberer ◴[12 Nov 25 15:40 UTC] No.45901511[source]▶
I never bothered trying to stream anything, but I do remember downloading 20mb episodes of Naruto in surprisingly good quality due to the .rmvb format.
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2. physicsguy ◴[12 Nov 25 17:51 UTC] No.45903277[source]▶
The BBC here used to put a ton of news content on it, it was pretty forward thinking really!