[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] share: add wrapper script for the YoutubeDL Python module

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le maanantaina 21. syyskuuta 2020, 13.37.49 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> OK. My understanding was that this would add the feature to anyone, but
> it's only for people who already have youtube-dl.

Very much not.

YoutubeDL has multiple releases per week and needs (less but still) frequent 
updates. Thus, IMO, it is not suitable for including in contribs. It only adds 
pain to injury that it would require a Python interpreter. And that it's a 
little uncomfortably warm a potato for VLC to ship.

I'd say, it's more like YoutubeDL ought to provide binary bundles including an 
open-source media player, than that open-source media players should ship 
YoutubeDL. So it is very much intended that YoutubeDL is installed (and 
updated) separately. I won't object on principle basis if somebody adds it to 
contribs. But I would not recommend doing so, and I will follow my own advice 
in that respect.

I've said it before and I can state it again: If you want a zero-effort updated 
playlist parser, you should provide a web service to perform the look-up and/
or to roll frequent and fast parser/extractor script updates.

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