6mo ago

It seems like the logical way to work

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Just download the video then.
Youtube stop doing this because people would pause a Multi-Hour long video (such as a music video) download the entire thing, only to then only watch 15 minutes of it because that's the bit they wanted. Massive waste of bandwidth
- If only there were some middle ground between multi-hours and 30 seconds.
  
  Seriously, load the next 15 minutes, then start loading that when it plays those 15 minutes
  
  Wow, this guy solved the problem just like that. It is almost like there must be some other reason they did this other than what they say.
- What do you mean “waste of bandwidth”? We’re paying for that through government subsidies and selling our personal data. Are you seriously defending a corporation that made $250 billion last year in ad revenue alone?
  
  This is a weird point. Like yes, Google is a government subsidized monopoly. But to keep this feature is a massive waste of resources.
  Like from a tech perspective, this should not be done. Like fuck Google can be a thing and will have no impact on that
  
  People hate corporations so much that they forget some times they do make smart choices. That bandwidth doesn't just exist from nothing, it's electricity being moved around. The environmental impact, even as infinitesimal as it may be, isn't worth the convenience imo
  
  The hypocrisy of this when they're chugging power for AI....
  
  Defending no explaining yes.
  Need to chill out not everything you do not understand needs to be an argument.
- Multi-hour long music videos? What?
  
  Beethoven's 7th symphony, the music video.
  
  🤟🔥
  
  People stitch together what is essentially a play list of music videos because YouTube's actual playlist feature kinda sucks. Has something to do with longer videos, engagement and ad revenue too but I'm not privy to that Eldritch knowledge.
  
  Compilations exist.
  
  I guess. I don't know why anyone would watch a 2 hour compilation for 3 videos though.
  
  "Lo-fi beats to study to"
  Lots of people just need filler music while doing something for several hours, yt playlists are ass, picking a new song every 2-9 minites is quite disruptive, and any form of autoplay will eventually dump you in alt-right politics.
  
  You've never seen a Video DJ mix before? They can go on for several hours and have more than just 3 songs—usually a dozen or more—all mixed seamlessly into one continuous mix with no gaps between songs. And if the person who made the mix is a real DJ, the songs are also BPM- and Key-matched with each other, which sounds absolutely amazing when done right. It's one of the better ways to enjoy music.
- Oh no, google lost .3cents of bandwidth. the horror.
  
  Even if it was 3 cents in bandwidth (it's not), that's 1.3 billion dollars in additional costs. You want more ads to pay for that?
  
  And thats probably a rounding error in googles costs.
  For a much more usable, enjoyable experience.
  That you're arguing against, because wont someone think of poor googles downtrodden finances.
  
  Billion dollar costs aren't rounding errors even at YouTube/Google's scale. They're a measurable percentage of total revenue. I agree that it slightly improves the user experience, it's hard to imagine a worse cost/benefit tradeoff from an engineering perspective even at more realistic costs. It's especially hard to justify when there's an easy alternative for users in the form of downloading videos.
- Now after the second commercial I hit a youtube downloader from a European vpn. I still download it all just to watch what I want.
  
  Why European VPN?
  Fun fact: if you bypass DPI in Russia, ypu can watch youtube without ads. Because youtube temproary disabled them.
  
  Fun fact: with Firefox and uBlock Origin you can watch YouTube without ads.
  
  And you can do it on mobile too.
  
  Don't they inject ads in videos now?
  
  Haven't seen any ads so far.
- What's going on with YouTube video downloading? Any route I take to try to download, it only gives me the option of 1080p video only and a different option for audio only. I've recently downloaded a couple of videos my kids watch for offline use and I had to put the downloaded files into a video editor to combine the audio and video myself.
  Here's one video I wanted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O2g3Ql3nRU
  
  If you ever find yourself combining audio and video again, check out mkvtoolnix. In this situation, a video editor is overkill and potentially transcodes the audio or video, taking an hour. This tool is basically winzip for video files, it lets you swap audio and video tracks around in a few seconds.
  
  Fuckn sweeet
  
  Champion.
  Yeah I used Kdenlive and did need to transcoded the whole thing.
  
  Neat
  
  Yes can use Seal (GitHub/F-droid) on Android or yt-dlp on a PC to download a video in any resolution with audio
  
  Thanks. I'll check out Seal.
  
  I wrote a Python tool that does it for you. It's because of the newer dash/ adaptive bit rate formats. Just hit the checkbox to combine afterwards. https://codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafter/pytube-gui
  
  That's amazing. Thanks.
- The amount of times my video brings unplayable even though it has a few minutes buffered is too damn high. Almost all the times my video gets stuck, is that scenario. Not to say it happens all the time.

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