Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/yt-dlp

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

Diverting to pkgsrc-users@ where others might be more inclined to
chime in.

Some video sites (such as YouTube) offer the video and audio portions
of a media stream separately in multiple formats and sometimes the
'yt-dlp' default to choose the "best quality" of each don't fit into a
single target file.

In such case, 'ffmpeg' is needed to assemble the separate audio and video
streams into a single Matroska (.mkv) file.  Back when I could access
YouTube, I simply made a symlink in /usr/local/bin to point "ffmpeg" at
whatever the latest versioned binary already installed on my system was.

Can't speak the to the javascript engine recommendations, but I suspect
that since YouTube is now private, it's needed for account authentication
as well as mimicking the player function for yt-dlp to siphon off the
audio/video streams.

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