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[โ€“] Imhotep@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I still use yt-dlp to download because I don't understand Freetube's options. It's either only audio or video

Also if you're on Linux and you get a white screen during playback (has been an issue since 0.22) this fix works for me: freetube --enable-features=''

edit: posting a vertical pic messes up the webpage a bit. If it's annoying tell me

[โ€“] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's a side effect of YouTube messing with the streams to try to break downloaders. Obvs a dedicated downloader like ytdlp handles YouTube jerking the chain around better than a tool intended for viewing.

My understanding is you're pretty much only gonna get those broken up streams especially for piratey content like music videos and tv shows. Ytdlp will join with ffmpeg.