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diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce13cc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +youtube-dl (2015.06.04.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium + + Starting with Debian's version 2015.06.04.1-1, the handling of video + formats has been revamped in youtube-dl. In particular, the option + `--max-quality` doesn't exist anymore. This is likely to break scripts + and/or other programs that use this option. + + Please, refer to the manpage (in particular to the section named + "FORMAT SELECTION") for more details. + + -- Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> Mon, 18 May 2015 08:23:20 -0300 + +youtube-dl (2014.02.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium + + There are too many goodies that this new release brings us, + including that it is possible to combine/merge/multiplex audio and + video formats that Youtube now offers separately (See the previous + notes about Youtube using DASH for video and audio). + + Now, if you want a 480p video in H.264 format, High profile, with + 128kbps AAC audio (this used to be Youtube's format 35), you can + specify format `-f 135+140` on the command-line, and so on. Only your + imagination is the limit. + + See http://cynic.cc/blog/posts/2014-02-17-youtube-dl_news/ for more + verbose news. + + -- Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:24:20 -0300 + +youtube-dl (2013.10.23-1) unstable; urgency=low + + From http://cynic.cc/blog/posts/2013-10-23-assorted_news/: + + [13]Some people may have noticed, others may not, but when downloading + videos from Youtube, they apparently are getting more aggressive with + the use of [14]Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (also called DASH) + and, as a result, some (perhaps going to be all in the near future?) of + the videos may not be available in the resolution/formats that you used + to like (like me, with format number 35). + + By the way, one thing that is interesting with youtube videos provided + via DASH is that they are available in different streams: one for the + video and another for the audio. + + What does this mean in practical terms for users of youtube-dl? Well, + if you wanted to download videos in resolutions like the 480p (format + 35) that I mentioned, then you will probably have to change your way of + doing things, until a more automated solution is in place. + + You will have to download both the audio and the video and, then, + "combine" them (that is, multiplex them) to create one "normal" video + file with both the audio and the video. I usually do this via: + + ffmpeg -i audio.m4a -i video.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy combined.mp4 + + If you prefer having a Matroska container instead of an mp4 container + (which, BTW, results in smaller muxing overhead), then you can use the + command line: + + mkvmerge -o combined.mkv audio.m4a video.mp4 + + Oh, those m4a and mp4 extensions are a new addition that [15]I just + sent upstream (in the past, both would have been named with an + extension of mp4). + + As, an aside, I like formats 135 for video and 140 for audio, for the + reasons that I mentioned in a comments to issue 1612: + + Otherwise, to download 480p videos (which I do for lectures and so + on with other projects of mine, like edx-dl) I have to call + youtube-dl twice: once for format 135 and another for format 140, + since the old (?) format 35 files are much smaller than the lower + resolution 360p files (due to the former being encoded in High + profile vs. the latter being encoded in Constrained Baseline + profile). + + While this is unfortunate for some, this is a good thing for others: I + once had a blind user of youtube-dl asking me if he could avoid + downloading the whole video just to extract the audio, so that he save + on bandwidth. Well, now this is possible. + + + 13. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1612 + 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Adaptive%20Streaming%20over%20HTTP + 15. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/1622 + + -- Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:25:41 -0200 + +youtube-dl (2010.07.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium + + The upstream author has removed support for the -b ("best format") and + the -d ("high def") command line options. + + The behavior now is to download the best quality for each video. + If you experience a problem with youtube-dl downloading videos that are + too large, you should consider using the --max-quality option to limit + which format to use. + + The list of formats (in decreasing quality) can be found with: + + grep "available_formats =" /usr/bin/youtube-dl + + -- Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:07:03 -0300 + |