@GrahamcOfBorg build youtube-dl-gui

I was able to run the program, add URLs to download, but when i hit start,

it "download latest youtube-dl" (should use packaged) and tries to download the videos. That fails.

When i hit reload, the download begins sucessfully!

I tested it briefly and thought it worked. I did see the downloading youtube-dl but then it went away when I added youtube-dl to propagated build inputs. Maybe mine had just managed to already download it and it needs to be added to the path instead. I'll have an investigate

I've had a look and this finds it's youtube-dl program using it's config file and I can't see any nice way to be able to pass config items in as the config file lives in the home directory. Not sure what is the best way to solve this

Ideally we want a way we could force config options from the command line, as when we could make a wrapper that supplies the correct path to the youtube-dl program

The best solution would be an upstream solution to disable automatic updates at buildtime since we want always our packaged version. I will create an issue there.

I think this state is usable and can be merged. It can later be improved.

Thanks for your work!

I'll make a comment in the code and remove youtube-dl from propagatedBuildInputs as it doesn't find it anyway

was going to make an issue but MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui#380 is worrying.
On a side note did you manage to test the ffmpeg stuff?

MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui#380 is worrying.

oh no. then we might not add an unmaintained package with issue.

I hope there will be an active fork or another GUI.

did you manage to test the ffmpeg stuff?

no. but i did now.

I selected "mp3" as format and added a youtube video. It was downloaded 100% as webm and then status error. I can play the webm, but it has no image, just audio. Same with vorbis and m4a.

When selecting webm, the video has no audio.

mp4 works. it is the default.

maybe the ffmpeg package is missing codecs?

failing for me with:

builder for '/nix/store/jqn38icyy79rd0l3whwkdav3ddmn4ih2-python2.7-youtube-dl-gui-0.4.drv' failed with exit code 1; last 10 log lines:
  unpacking sources
  unpacking source archive /nix/store/77qdqidp5adszh8p86xgm26wwdmki2kc-source
  source root is source
  setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to timestamp 315619200 of file source/youtube_dl_gui/widgets.py
  patching sources
  configuring
  no configure script, doing nothing
  building
  Executing setuptoolsBuildPhase
  No module named wx
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/c55bf68ads4q1vmk8031fc27d42znq1k-env.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built

There is still no popular, maintained fork. We should just close this.

There's https://github.com/axcore/tartube for anyone looking for alterantives.