←back to thread

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

(github.com)
810 points bertman | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 10:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
Show context
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.

replies(13): >>45900417 #>>45900487 #>>45900707 #>>45900818 #>>45900981 #>>45901051 #>>45901059 #>>45901071 #>>45901279 #>>45902069 #>>45902135 #>>45903125 #>>45903505 #
throwaway94275 ◴[12 Nov 25 14:11 UTC] No.45900417[source]▶
1991 was the vibrant, exciting, crazy "adolescence" of the PC age and well into the period where it was cool to have a desktop PC and really learn about it.

Phones are dominant now and have passed the PC generation by - in number, not capability. The concept of copy/paste/save for arbitrary data lives on for the non-tech masses only in the form of screenshots and screen recording features.

replies(5): >>45900727 #>>45901044 #>>45901722 #>>45901743 #>>45902865 #
j45 ◴[12 Nov 25 17:22 UTC] No.45902865[source]▶
Depending on where personal/portable AI devices go, phones might be significantly different or not exist in 10 years as they do today.

There might be a resurgence of some kind of device like a PC.

Seeing iPadOS gain desktop features, and MacOS starting to adopt more and more iPadOS type features clearly shows the desktop, laptop and tablet experiences will be merged at some point by Apple at least.

replies(1): >>45903475 #
1. WorldPeas ◴[12 Nov 25 18:05 UTC] No.45903475[source]▶
I think it'd be biased more in the direction of the Ipad. If anything there's one feature apple's trying to avoid and that's Macos' waning ability to run third party binaries