[scribus] Use youtube-dl and upload everything to more places including archive.org

J.B. Nicholson jbn at forestfield.org
Fri Jan 24 18:29:39 UTC 2020


"Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
> Is there any chance of providing an opportunity to download the video, so people
> can watch it when they are off-line?

Consider using https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ to download videos from YouTube and 
other video-hosting sites.

Also consider posting videos to archive.org in addition to other places. If one 
uploads videos and supplementary material to archive.org one doesn't need specialized 
tools like youtube-dl to do this job. An ordinary browser can handle downloading the 
files with a common right-click "Save Video As...". archive.org makes it easy to 
embed the files they host in other things -- use the HTML5 standard elements VIDEO to 
embed a video in a webpage, for example. Also, archive.org allows uploading all types 
of files, not just videos (unlike YouTube and many other video sharing sites).

Don't just upload videos to YouTube or any one place which is known for censorship 
and restriction. The way to get around such censorship is distributing the work 
widely so users always have another set of places to get the material. archive.org 
should be one of those places.



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