dirkf

I think https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29912#issuecomment-1243596208 is a reasonable statement of the problem (further suggestions welcome). Unfortunately we haven't been able to make any progress in creating an implementation to meet those requirements,...

Plainly it's not a showstopping issue but it is one that generates repeated complaints. It's still open in case someone is eventually intrigued enough to work out a solution that...

Outdated, continued in #31361.

So: `--user-agent 'Patreon/7.6.28 (Android; Android 11; Scale/2.10)'`

It was, but only temporarily. I wanted to migrate some code improvements needed for the PR to library modules before merging and that set off a chain of dependent/consequent improvements...

When you update yt-dl to fix #31530 (not by switching to yt-dlp, obvs, though yt-dlp has fuller functionality for this anyway), this commit will be included too.

Read the issue!

However: * https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/6558 * https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/22042#issuecomment-2156723541

As the PR for the yt-dlp extractor has been merged, the only reason not to update the yt-dl extractor is that yt-dl doesn't have the subtitle extraction API used by...

>... a "fix" for (default) format sorting (according to increasing resolution) will also be needed: How true. You can imagine the back-porting process: 1. Think "remember to find where the...