Re: Replace Youtube-DL with HyperVideo

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 05.08.19 um 20:56 schrieb Raghav Gururajan:
> I came across this project called HyperVideo (https://libregit.org/heck
> yel/hypervideo). It is a fork of Youtube-DL, without non-free JS and
> SWF bytecode.

Huh? youtube-dl does not include any JS or SWF bytecode - so there is
nothing to remove.

And I just checked the diff, and there are not blobs removed (which is
what I would have expected). The only things changed are:

  * Signature decryption for youtube signatures is removed.
      o The JS bytecode interpreter is removed - which AFAIU is not a
        complete interpreter, but only tried to fetch the calculated URL
        from the code.
      o The SWF bytecode interpreter is removed - which also AFAIU is
        not a complete interpreter.
  * The IqiyiSDKInterpreter removed in youtube_dl/extractor/iqiyi.py -
    theses seem to use some hard-coded authentication tokens for login
    at http://kylin.iqiyi.com/

I can't see why this would require to replace youttube-dl by hypervideo.

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Hartmut Goebel

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