Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 2024-08-16, bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/16/2024 1:16 PM, Dave Froble wrote:

On 8/16/2024 8:07 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

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That's a hack, not a solution (and there are severe limits to how much
incremental time you can save with this approach).
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Written material is a far better solution in this situation.
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People can process written material at their own chosen speed ...
 

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More importantly, how are all you people accessing YouTube under VMS?
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If the Python 3.x on VMS is sufficiently functional, you should be able
to download YouTube videos to VMS just fine. Playing them however is
left as an exercise for the reader. :-)

As for downloading them, if anyone is interested enough to give it a go
and see if VMS Python is functional enough:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

It is a YouTube downloader written in Python. You could always see if
you can actually download one of the VSI videos to a VMS system.

I recommend you start with YouTube format 18 which contains a low-resolution
video and a audio stream combined together inside a MP4 container.
This you should be able to do without any other software if VMS Python
is sufficiently functional.

If you want to get a bit more creative :-), download the slightly higher
resolution video format 135 and then the m4a 140 audio format, port ffmpeg
to VMS, and then combine the streams into a MP4 container. You only need
to copy the streams into the container as-is, you do not need to transcode
the downloaded streams.

Simon.

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