ytdl-patched VS static_ffmpeg

For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV.

(Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.)

For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundlcoud client.

From the Kotlin source for "dvd":

Video downloader app powered by yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl).

Features

Download video/audio from 1000+ sites supported by yt-dlp.

Run custom yt-dlp commands.

Update yt-dlp version from settings.

Share link via other apps.

References

dvd - https://github.com/yausername/dvd

youtubedl-android - https://github.com/yausername/youtubedl-android

yt-dlp - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)

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

Once downloaded, the video files can be played anywhere, on any device.

If yt-dlp works, you can also use Celluloid to watch videos from Youtube — choose Open Location and enter the YouTube video or playlist page.

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

=> https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/io.github.celluloid_player.Ce...

I'd recommend you to have a look at yt-dlp [0] and NewPipe extractor [1]

[0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Couldn't you just use the subtitles from youtube directly?

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#subtitle-options

Or are these worse than whisper?

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

yt-dlp or one of its many GUI frontends.

Give yt-dlp a try: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

The only ads are the ones the creators insert into the videos themselves.

youtube-dl is broken now and barely updated for some byzantine reasons, no?

yt-dlp is supposed to be the new hotness, though I've yet to try it. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/