On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 21:42 Bret Busby wrote:
> On 31/1/25 18:19, George at Clug wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 20:41 Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 19:24 +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> >>> I have two answers (which might not be good answers, if so someone may be
> >>> able to correct me)
> >>>
> >>> 1) For some time now yt-dlp has been unable to download videos which I
> >>> wanted to download.
> >>
> >> If you're on Debian Stable, please be aware that the version of yt-dlp
> >> (2023.03.04-1) is really ancient and not feasible with YouTube as of today.
> >> You need to install more recent version from bookworm-backports and keep it
> >> up-to-date.
> >
> > Thank you for that info.
> >
> > # apt -t bookworm-backports install yt-dlp youtubedl-gui
> >
> > And now I can successfully download videos from YouTube, either from
> > command line or GUI.
> >
>
> yt-dlp --version
> 2025.01.15
>
> What does yours show?
The same (now that I am using backports):
$ yt-dlp --version
2025.01.15
>
> (also, I note, for me to try next time, --write-auto-subs)
>
>
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
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