On 2013/07/04 12:33, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Marc Espie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 03:12:33PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > > > It seems Minitube's license changed from GPLv3 to a proprietary one. > > > > > > Since version 2.1 (released on Jun 28 2013), it has become a > > > closed-source, binary-only software only available on the Ubuntu > > > Software Center: > > > https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/minitube-ubuntu/ > > > > > > So long Minitube and thanks for all the videos :( > > > > Well, as long as 2.1 works, let's keep it. > > > > it won't work for long. youtube keep changing every few months.
It's not _that_ bad, youtube support in get-flash-videos only got totally broken by YT changes something like 2 times in 2 years.. I haven't checked but I don't recall many updates to libquvi either. It's a bit easier than minitube (which also has to handle search) but can't be that difficult. > > And hey, it shouldn't be THAT hard to track youtube-dl. > > > > There's *nothing* that prevents us from doing that. > > > > > i am amazed at the guys who release youtube-dl almost daily. That's not all for youtube changes. Though their screen scraper does seem a bit more brittle than some.
