[kwlug-disc] Firefox resource usage

[Bob Jonkman]

Since youtube-dl wasn't getting updated for months after their little 
tiff with github, I've replaced youtube-dl with yt-dlp

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

yt-dlp does a bunch more sites than youtube-dl (which did plenty!), and 
it fixes Google's throttling of YouTube sites.

yt-dlp uses the same command parameters as youtube-dl, so I can use my 
former config file. I've set an alias:

alias yt='yt-dlp --config-location=~/.config/youtube-dl/config'

so I can easily switch between the two by changing where the alias 
points. But I haven't gone back to youtube-dl for months...



BTW, apparently you can bypass the Google throttling on YouTube by 
setting the referer string on youtube-dl to spoof an Android device.  I 
didn't try that, since yt-dlp does it for me.

--Bob.


On 2022-02-01 00:09, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Chris Frey wrote:
>>
>> I'm hoping it's a temporary state for Firefox, and hope they have been
>> working on performance in post-91.x versions.  If not, I guess my only
>> recourse is to compile it myself and bust out the profilers. :-)
> 
> Another recourse is you use youtube-dl. This has degraded as a
> recourse since Our Friends at Google now throttle download speeds from
> scripts that do not pass a challenge, but I am still able to waste my
> life watching Youtube and other video sites if I am patient.
> 
> My invocation is something like:
> 
> youtube-dl --verbose -f 'best[height<=360]' SOME_URL
> 
> This of course reduces the resolution, which is what I want on my old
> slow netbook. It will fail for portrait-mode videos.
> 
> Despite the name youtube-dl works on a surprising number of video
> sites. If there is some weird site that hosts video I often have
> success getting video by throwing youtube-dl at it. Even CBC Gem
> works, although not well.
> 
> Having said that, I heartily encourage you to bust out the profilers
> and fix the performance problems so my copy of Firefox gets faster in
> the future.
> 
> - Paul
> 

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