A note on youtube-dl

Doug dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Tue Oct 2 19:25:05 UTC 2012


On 10/2/2012 7:43 AM, Sergio wrote:
>
> --- Em ter, 2/10/12, Doug<dmcgarrett at optonline.net>  escreveu:
>
>> De: Doug<dmcgarrett at optonline.net>
>> Assunto: Re: A note on youtube-dl
>> Para: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Data: Terça-feira, 2 de Outubro de 2012, 1:19
>> On 10/01/2012 03:18 PM, Joe Zeff
>> wrote:
>>> On 10/01/2012 03:55 PM, Doug wrote:
>>>> OK, sorry about that--I'd like the program to work
>> in both Linux and
>>>> Windows, and I happened  to be in XP
>>>> at that point..  The program claims to work in
>> both Windows and Linux.
>>>> I'll try that download trick again in
>>>> Linux and see if it works.  I would have
>> thought that Firefox worked the
>>>> same in both systems.
>>> That's OK, tish happens.  Let us know how things
>> work in Linux, or if the program fails in the same way in
>> both.
>> OK, did as you asked, mostly. In Linux, put in "Video
>> DownloadHelper 4 9 10" and 7 items appeared on the screen
>> almost instantly. (None of them downloadhelper!) But a note
>> said "View 70 more" or something like that, and sure
>> enough, downloadhelper was among them.  I have
>> installed that--we'll see how, or if, it works.  Now
>> went to
>> Windows 7 (XP is not presently available--it dual boots with
>> the Linux system I'm writing this on.)  In Win7, I get
>> "Loading" for about 40 seconds or so, and then a message,
>> "Could not find any matching addons," So apparently
>> all 70 of the possibilities are Linux (Unix?) compatible
>> only.
>>
>> --doug
> Just type 'download helper' on the search box and it should be the first option:
> http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-10022012-084212am.php
Thanx, Sergio.  In Win 7 it worked.  I picked a different file,out of 
140 available
  and I'll see how that works.
--doug


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