Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub

In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:31:27 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:

It's specific to Firefox playing the video.

Are you able to download a problem video and play it through something
else, just for comparison?

Yes. But the way youtube works, I don't know if the downloaded one is
same file, and it probably isn't. yt-dlp tries to get the best file
it can, while the javascript in the browser probably negotiates one
more suitable for the embedded window size.

Elijah
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it is very hard to trace exactly what file is downloaded