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@wallhackio No. Doesn't work :(

@vaporeon_ let me see if i can send you a file directly

@vaporeon_ https://bigwater-4710cf.gitlab.io/bigwater.mp4

@wallhackio Doesn't let me, directs me to this page

@wallhackio How many megabytes is it?

@vaporeon_ ah fuck that's an easy fix one second

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@vaporeon_ @wallhackio wonder if you need to update yt-dlp? maybe youtube kids fucks up downloaders?

@aescling @wallhackio

$ yt-dlp -U
Latest version: stable@2026.03.17 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2026.03.17 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)

@vaporeon_ @aescling yt-dlp runs deno now to download yt videos which is probably the issue

@wallhackio @aescling A few days ago, I was able to watch YouTube videos without any Deno

@vaporeon_ @aescling huh then i dunno

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio @aescling youtube can probably detect it and block it regularly

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio @aescling anyway fuck the police

@onfy @vaporeon_ @wallhackio caleb and i nearly took down the server by both trying to upload this video to GlitchCat at the same time lmao

@aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio how??

@onfy @vaporeon_ @wallhackio two instances of ffmpeg at the same time used up well over 1GB of ram and consumed all the RAM the server had remaining

@aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio i think sleeping town just spits out the video as is

@onfy @vaporeon_ @wallhackio yeah i remember exa posting about getting tired of mastodon's terrible transcode quality lmao

@aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio a lot of mastodon is terrible and well, xey were the ones who taught me ffmpeg to begin with

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio @aescling
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0fXST1w_U
[youtube] GL0fXST1w_U: Downloading webpage
[youtube] GL0fXST1w_U: Downloading android vr player API JSON
[youtube] GL0fXST1w_U: Downloading web embedded client config
[youtube] GL0fXST1w_U: Downloading player 8fb635c2-main
[youtube] GL0fXST1w_U: Downloading web embedded player API JSON
[youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno
[youtube] GL0fXST1w_U: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] GL0fXST1w_U: Downloading 1 format(s): 18
[download] Sleeping 5.00 seconds as required by the site...
[download] Destination: Big Water Song ｜ The Land Before Time V： The Mysterious Island ｜ Song [GL0fXST1w_U].mp4
[download] 100% of 8.67MiB in 00:00:01 at 7.02MiB/s

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio secretly it was solving js-based challenges in hacky python the whole time but it's moved that out to a library that invokes any of a couple js runtimes because the devs got frustrated with dealing with that part of their codebase

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio they recommend deno but you can use node instead :3