ytdl-sub VS plugin.video.youtube

Preps everything for kodi, including metadata, sensible folder structures etc. https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

I recently found ytdl-sub which is basically a metadata wrapper around yt-dlp to help you save videos in a format library software like Plex etc supports. Rather than having some horribly named videos with metadata files just taking up space.

https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

ytdl-sub

Use ytdl-sub for downloading YT channels/playlists/etc: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

I don't mean to take the limelight away from this, was probably a ton of work. I used to have a similar bash setup at one point, then later created this tool to standardize yt-dlp archiving: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

I'm biased because I'm the author, but I think ytdl-sub could shine here: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

I use the ytdl-sub project and it does a great job preserving the metadata and putting it in a format Plex can use without a lot of fuss. Maybe see about integrating with that instead of roll-your-own? A GUI is nice but I just have this set to run on a cron a couple times a day, set and forget.

You should give ytdl-sub a try - nearly 100% compatible with any yt-dlp arg and more: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

It's the same dev, but I think it's because it's an "alpha" version, that it hasn't been submitted to Kodi as an "official" update. If I find an add-on in the Kodi repo that I like, I do a search to see if the developer has a github account. You can usually find a newer version than what the "official" repo has. The Kodi repo is needed for dependencies, but isn't so great for video add-ons.

Use Kodi’s own YouTube plugin. It’s not trivial to set up but delivers ad-free YT with everything.

to fix it you will need the latest alpha version of YouTube addon here: https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/releases/tag/7.x.x-dev

If anyone doesn't want to copy and paste, here is a zip of the video_info.py file from the github, you just have to unzip it and replace the file in the location specified by OP with this one.