Apparently im too stupid to get the source URLs of youtube videos. All i can find on this, are either shit or just websites that convert a youtube-link to the source URL.
How the fuck do i get the video source URL?
Youtube video source
Luke James
Other urls found in this thread:
Tyler Bennett
youtube-dl -g [-f format-code]
Julian Watson
>>>/sqt/
Colton Kelly
Actual code, not just some library/service
How so?
Camden Edwards
>Actual code, not just some library/service
wat
Nicholas Williams
are you from askubuntu? i feel im not dumb enough to answer your question
Kevin Gonzalez
>rg3.github.io
this is what you think about?
What i think about is what server you need to send a request to, and what the server demands. Cant find any detail on that though
Connor Bell
>what server
one of googles data centers obviously
>which one
use wireshark
Hunter Nelson
>what server
>r2---sn-8xgn5uxa-i5he.googlevideo.com
>r2---sn-4g5e6nze.googlevideo.com
The prefix seems pretty random, there must be a more convenient server.
Also, it seems to pull from 2 servers
Anthony Hughes
ask google
Josiah Gutierrez
>post mentions, that i tried to google
>"just google it man"
Not very helpful, are you?
Benjamin Mitchell
i didn't write that
Dominic Mitchell
>"ask google"
then explain, what this is supposed to be
Ryan Bennett
There isn’t a single source URL. YouTube chops the source file in many different blocks and the player merges them seamlessly.
Why?
* You can switch servers in the middle of the video easily.
* You can download only the next few blocks instead of the entire file, saving bandwidth if you don’t watch the entire video.
* There’s also separate video streams and audio streams so you can bump to a higher audio quality without bumping to a higher video quality.
* CDN doesn’t have to cache the entire video, only the blocks people watch the most.
* And many others.
Look it up. It’s called DASH.
Christopher Perez
*ring-ring* - *ring-ring*
>hey google! it's a me, user, how you do your voodoo?
Kayden Williams
Thank you for nothing
Noah Collins
i wonder if yt uses ffmpeg for it's encoding process
Hudson Butler
you're very welcome
Connor Lee
They likely have fancy custom hardware-accelerated encoders but it’s very possible that ffmpeg is somewhere in the pipeline, probably a custom build.
Samuel White
Thank you, I´ll look it up
Jaxon Russell
it's open source
you can go read through the github repo yourself and see how it does it
Zachary Anderson
Doing that aswell, but the readability of python is horrendous