You can use yt-dlp to download it and play it in whatever movie player you want that supports variable speeds, unless and until YouTube cracks down on downloading.
I use jdownloader2. I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl. I’m not sure.
I was curious so I downloaded the Mac version of yt-dlp (as I am on Mac), couldn’t get it to run. And I’m comfortable with the command line.
YouTube kinda is cracking down on downloading though. If a video is marked as adult (you need to sign in to view it), it can’t be downloaded. A lot of “official videos” (like trailers from the studio) can’t be downloaded. Subtitles can’t be downloaded. That’s in jd2. Not sure about yt-dlp.
Nice, but that doesn’t work on my machine as of yet.
It’s weird that the default archive utility we (Mac users) all use (The Unarchiver) can’t do .7z files, but if they’re downloaded through jdownloader2, they unzip just fine. The actual 7-Zip application is only available as a command line interface on Mac, whereas on Windows, as you probably know, it’s more like a file manager.
One of these days I’ll get yt-dlp working on my Mac. Even being in the same folder as it, typing yt-dlp in the terminal doesn’t open it. That’s how it worked in DOS/Windows (or you had it in a folder you declared in PATH= in Autoexec.bat, back in the day), but Mac/UNIX terminal is something I have very little experience in. Comfortable with it, but inexperienced. So I suppose I have some reading to do. Especially if the subs work as well as you say.
Aye yeah that’s fair, in that case i’d recommend PeaZip, it’s what I use on my CachyOS setup since 7zip is just cli on Unix. PeaZip has a nice file manager UI.
In terms of yt-dlp it really depends how you installed it…
Assuming you’re in the folder where yt-dlp is:
1. Make it executable
chmod +x yt-dlp
2. Run it directly from the current folder
./yt-dlp --version
If that works, then the binary is fine and it’s just a PATH thing.
I’d recommend just installing it through Homebrew personally, it will sort out the PATH for you automatically.
install Homebrew if you don’t have it (from brew.sh)
then:
brew install yt-dlp
yt-dlp --version
Otherwise if you want to make the binary work (if you already have the file or want to download it manually)
Open the folder in terminal and then
move it somewhere on PATH
sudo mv yt-dlp /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
make sure it’s executable
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
Now whichever way you choose, you should be able to just do:
Thanks! Should have known I could install it with brew. I installed that pretty early on. It’s now updating a bunch of stuff because I really don’t use it that much.
I think some of your commands are Linux-specific but I’m going with the homebrew installation.
I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl.
You’re probably thinking of youtube-dl. I’d guess that it most-likely used that at one point, but probably switched to yt-dlp when YouTube started throttling single-stream downloads.
You can use
yt-dlpto download it and play it in whatever movie player you want that supports variable speeds, unless and until YouTube cracks down on downloading.I use jdownloader2. I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl. I’m not sure.
I was curious so I downloaded the Mac version of yt-dlp (as I am on Mac), couldn’t get it to run. And I’m comfortable with the command line.
YouTube kinda is cracking down on downloading though. If a video is marked as adult (you need to sign in to view it), it can’t be downloaded. A lot of “official videos” (like trailers from the studio) can’t be downloaded. Subtitles can’t be downloaded. That’s in jd2. Not sure about yt-dlp.
Yt-dlp all those work, though you may need log in (cookie) for ‘adult’ content
But i dl with subtitles every time ‘–write-auto-subs’ or ‘–write-subs en’ or ‘all’, also got ‘–convert-subs srt’ yt-dlp the goat
Nice, but that doesn’t work on my machine as of yet.
It’s weird that the default archive utility we (Mac users) all use (The Unarchiver) can’t do .7z files, but if they’re downloaded through jdownloader2, they unzip just fine. The actual 7-Zip application is only available as a command line interface on Mac, whereas on Windows, as you probably know, it’s more like a file manager.
One of these days I’ll get yt-dlp working on my Mac. Even being in the same folder as it, typing yt-dlp in the terminal doesn’t open it. That’s how it worked in DOS/Windows (or you had it in a folder you declared in PATH= in Autoexec.bat, back in the day), but Mac/UNIX terminal is something I have very little experience in. Comfortable with it, but inexperienced. So I suppose I have some reading to do. Especially if the subs work as well as you say.
Aye yeah that’s fair, in that case i’d recommend PeaZip, it’s what I use on my CachyOS setup since 7zip is just cli on Unix. PeaZip has a nice file manager UI.
In terms of yt-dlp it really depends how you installed it…
Assuming you’re in the folder where yt-dlp is:
1. Make it executable
chmod +x yt-dlp
2. Run it directly from the current folder
./yt-dlp --version
If that works, then the binary is fine and it’s just a PATH thing.
I’d recommend just installing it through Homebrew personally, it will sort out the PATH for you automatically.
install Homebrew if you don’t have it (from brew.sh)
then:
brew install yt-dlp
yt-dlp --version
Otherwise if you want to make the binary work (if you already have the file or want to download it manually)
Open the folder in terminal and then
move it somewhere on PATH
sudo mv yt-dlp /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
make sure it’s executable
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
Now whichever way you choose, you should be able to just do:
yt-dlp https://example.com/video --write-auto-subs
Along with whatever other commands you want to use!
Thanks! Should have known I could install it with brew. I installed that pretty early on. It’s now updating a bunch of stuff because I really don’t use it that much.
I think some of your commands are Linux-specific but I’m going with the homebrew installation.
You’re probably thinking of
youtube-dl. I’d guess that it most-likely used that at one point, but probably switched toyt-dlpwhen YouTube started throttling single-stream downloads.