Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread home user
This thread seems to have been accidentally started as a continuation of my original thread with the same subject. I do not plan to upgrade to Fedora-33 until April or May 2021. I'm suspending my efforts to install 4kvideodownloader until after that.  I think that between the "Video DownloadHe

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"? [SOLVED]

2020-12-15 Thread home user
I do not plan to upgrade to Fedora-33 until April or May 2021.  I'm suspending my efforts to install 4kvideodownloader until after that.  I think that between the "Video DownloadHelper" add-on and the "youtube-dl" command line program, I can download most if not all that I want. I thank every

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread David King
On 12/15/20 1:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/15/20 10:47 AM, home user wrote: -bash.4[~]: dnf install 'libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit)' Last metadata expiration check: 0:41:41 ago on Tue 15 Dec 2020 11:02:08 AM MST. No match for argument: libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit) Error: Unable to find

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/15/20 10:47 AM, home user wrote: -bash.4[~]: dnf install 'libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit)' Last metadata expiration check: 0:41:41 ago on Tue 15 Dec 2020 11:02:08 AM MST. No match for argument: libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit) Error: Unable to find a match: libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit)

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread home user
On 12/15/20 11:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You installed the 32-bit versions. [... snip ...] dnf install 'libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit)' -bash.4[~]: dnf install 'libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5.15)(64bit)' Last metadata expiration check: 0:41:41 ago on Tue 15 Dec 2020 11:02:08 AM MST. No match for

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/15/20 10:17 AM, home user wrote: I misunderstood what dnf was saying. So I installed libQt5Core.so.5: - -bash.1[~]: dnf install libQt5Core.so.5 Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:17 ago on Tue 15 Dec 2020 11:02:08 AM MST. Dependencies resolved. ===

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread home user
I misunderstood what dnf was saying. So I installed libQt5Core.so.5: - -bash.1[~]: dnf install libQt5Core.so.5 Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:17 ago on Tue 15 Dec 2020 11:02:08 AM MST. Dependencies resolved.

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-15 Thread home user
> On 12/14/20 8:56 AM, David King wrote: > > Ok, here's an idea.  Maybe you need to use the -p|--package option with > the rpmrebuild command.  I already had the package installed so it's > using my installed package contents to rebuild the RPM in my case.  You > don't have the package yet, so

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-14 Thread David King
On 12/14/20 8:56 AM, David King wrote: On 12/13/20 11:26 PM, home user wrote: I ran the alien command; it seemed to work. I ran the rpmrebuild command and did the edit that you suggested. I got over 1100 error messages.  I pasted them into a text file "output_1213.txt" and uploaded the file on

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/14/20 6:08 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 03:15:08PM +, John Pilkington wrote: Is there an 'rpmrebuild' command? I have used 'rpmbuild --rebuild' - but not exactly in this context. There is a package/executable called 'rpmrebuild' but it builds a package from t

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 03:15:08PM +, John Pilkington wrote: > Is there an 'rpmrebuild' command? I have used 'rpmbuild --rebuild' - but > not exactly in this context. There is a package/executable called 'rpmrebuild' but it builds a package from the RPM database and installed files of a packa

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-14 Thread David King
On 12/13/20 11:26 PM, home user wrote: I ran the alien command; it seemed to work. I ran the rpmrebuild command and did the edit that you suggested. I got over 1100 error messages.  I pasted them into a text file "output_1213.txt" and uploaded the file onto the google drive.  It is here: "http

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-13 Thread home user
On 12/13/20 8:15 AM, John Pilkington wrote: Is there an 'rpmrebuild' command?  I have used 'rpmbuild --rebuild' - but not exactly in this context. Yes. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le..

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-13 Thread home user
On 12/13/20 6:39 AM, David King wrote: Another, better, way to set up the rpm build tree is to install the rpmdevtools package and run the "rpmdev-setuptree" script that it provides.  That adds a hidden ~/.rpmmacros config file that is used by the rpm builder tools. rpmdevtools was already

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-13 Thread John Pilkington
On 13/12/2020 13:39, David King wrote: On 12/13/20 8:31 AM, David King wrote: On 12/12/20 1:58 PM, home user wrote: On 12/12/20 8:41 AM, David King wrote: Installing 4kVideoDownloader on Fedora isn't all that difficult: 1)  Use the "alien" tool to convert the deb package to an rpm package:

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-13 Thread David King
On 12/13/20 8:31 AM, David King wrote: On 12/12/20 1:58 PM, home user wrote: On 12/12/20 8:41 AM, David King wrote: Installing 4kVideoDownloader on Fedora isn't all that difficult: 1)  Use the "alien" tool to convert the deb package to an rpm package: sudo alien --to-rpm --scripts 4kvideodow

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-13 Thread David King
On 12/12/20 1:58 PM, home user wrote: On 12/12/20 8:41 AM, David King wrote: Installing 4kVideoDownloader on Fedora isn't all that difficult: 1)  Use the "alien" tool to convert the deb package to an rpm package: sudo alien --to-rpm --scripts 4kvideodownloader_4.13.5-1_amd64.deb I had to in

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-12 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 20:34 -0700, home user wrote: > Occasionally, I view a video in which one musician really impresses me, > both in that he seems to really enjoy or be into what he's doing and in > his skill. So I want to stop, repeat, view it very slowly, and even > step back or forth one

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-12 Thread home user
On 12/12/20 8:41 AM, David King wrote: Installing 4kVideoDownloader on Fedora isn't all that difficult: 1)  Use the "alien" tool to convert the deb package to an rpm package: sudo alien --to-rpm --scripts 4kvideodownloader_4.13.5-1_amd64.deb I had to install alien. This seemed to work. 2)

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-12 Thread David King
On 12/11/20 3:19 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I use "youtube-dl" from the command line, it gives you a lot of control over exactly what formats you want.  "youtube-dl -F url" will give you the list of available formats and then you can use "youtube-dl -f {n} url" to get it.  See the man page for det

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-12 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 08:49 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I don't know if the "original" format is a knowable thing, I just > presume youtube itself doesn't upscale and that therefore the > highest res should be the original. I don't think you can get the original. I recently uploaded somethin

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/11/20 5:57 PM, home user wrote: I tried "-f bestvideo+bestaudio", but it complained it couldn't merge the two parts.  I had to install ffmpeg.  Then "-f bestvideo+bestaudio" worked. Oh, that's right. When you're downloading separate streams, it needs something to repack them into a con

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
On 12/11/20 3:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: First thing to know is that usually a video file is a container holding a video stream and one or more audio streams.  You need to tell youtube-dl which combination you want. That is helpful. There's quite a lot of other terminology, but it's looking

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/12/20 12:57 pm, home user wrote: On 12/11/20 2:49 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: Note that VLC isn't your only choice. I use mpv a lot myself. dnf isn't finding mpv. youtube-dl looks for a config in ~/.config/youtube-dl/config. Mine says: --cache-dir '~/.cache/youtube-dl' --add

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
On 12/11/20 2:49 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: Note that VLC isn't your only choice. I use mpv a lot myself. dnf isn't finding mpv. youtube-dl looks for a config in ~/.config/youtube-dl/config. Mine says: --cache-dir '~/.cache/youtube-dl' --add-metadata --xattrs --no-mtime

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/11/20 1:17 PM, home user wrote: The man page is long and overwhelming.  And I don't really know how videos work.  I try this: First thing to know is that usually a video file is a container holding a video stream and one or more audio streams. You need to tell youtube-dl which combinat

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11Dec2020 14:17, home user wrote: >bash.6[~]: youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahX9hOfz5A >I put the output in the attached text file "output.txt". >If I understood things correctly, >"youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahX9hOfz5A"; >will give me 1280x720 video and 22050H

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
On 12/11/20 1:30 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/11/20 12:21 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:    I too use youtube-dl. It has a reddit page and you can download it with pip pip install youtube-dl Or just "dnf install youtube-dl". Thank-you Mauricio and Samuel. The dnf command suggested by Samu

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/11/20 12:21 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: I too use youtube-dl. It has a reddit page and you can download it with pip pip install youtube-dl Or just "dnf install youtube-dl". ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
On 12/11/20 10:46 AM, Mike Wright wrote: This is not rocket science but not exactly amateur hour either. Since you have the .deb file (an ubuntu .rpm) you can examine its layout.  Go to your $HOME and mkdir tmp. e.g. "dpgk-deb -R 4kvideodownloader_4.13.4-1_amd64.deb tmp". I assume you mea

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:19 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 12/11/20 9:15 AM, home user wrote: > > Once in a while, I want to download a video that I enjoyed watching in > > Firefox. I googled this. One recommended tool was the "Video > > DownloadHelper" add-on for Firefox. I installed it; it w

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/11/20 9:15 AM, home user wrote: Once in a while, I want to download a video that I enjoyed watching in Firefox. I googled this. One recommended tool was the "Video DownloadHelper" add-on for Firefox. I installed it; it worked fine for one video, but not the second.Another article

Re: how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/11/20 9:15 AM, home user wrote: Once in a while, I want to download a video that I enjoyed watching in Firefox. I googled this. One recommended tool was the "Video DownloadHelper" add-on for Firefox. I installed it; it worked fine for one video, but not the second.Another article

how to install "4K Video Downloader"?

2020-12-11 Thread home user
Once in a while, I want to download a video that I enjoyed watching in Firefox. I googled this. One recommended tool was the "Video DownloadHelper" add-on for Firefox. I installed it; it worked fine for one video, but not the second. Another article pointed to by google is: "https://www.pc