Re: fastest linux distro

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:40:54 +1200
Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 09:10:53AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Sat, 31 May 2014 17:11:16 +1200
> > Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> > > ... no HDMI cable, doesn't play .webm videos. You have to use youtube-dl
> > > not 'cclive -s best' to download the video from youtube yielding in
> > > a 'lower quality' exoerience. Putting all that aside, it's basically
> > 
> > Can you explain? What does cclive do that youtube-dl doesn't?
> 
> That is a very open question, but compare the output of
> 
> tal% youtube-dl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh78BO_jhlw'
> [youtube] Setting language
> [youtube] fh78BO_jhlw: Downloading webpage
> [youtube] fh78BO_jhlw: Downloading video info webpage
> [youtube] fh78BO_jhlw: Extracting video information
> [download] Destination: Doctor Down Under EP 1 Thanks for the Memory-fh78BO_jhlw.mp4
> [download]   0.4% of 95.44MiB at 166.23KiB/s ETA 09:45^C
> 
> to
> 
> tal% cclive 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh78BO_jhlw'
> Checking ... ...... .... .........done.
> Doctor Down Under EP 1 Thanks for the Memory.webm  116.56M  [video/webm]

Not sure what you mean by "open question", but the above simply shows
that youtube-dl defaults to mp4 over webm, and cclive, vice versa.
Running youtube-dl with "-f webm" will cause it to get the exact same
webm file, byte for byte.

Celejar