Bug#1006896: RFP: firedm -- internet download manager GUI
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : firedm
Version : 2022.2.5
Upstream Author : https://github.com/firedm
* URL : https://github.com/firedm/FireDM
* License : LGPLv3
Programming Lang: Python
Description : internet download manager GUI
FireDM is a python open source (Internet Download Manager) with
multi-connections, high speed engine, it downloads general files and
videos from youtube and tons of other streaming websites . Developed
in Python, based on "LibCurl", and "youtube_dl".
Features:
* High download speeds "based on LibCurl"
* Multi-connection downloading "Multithreading"
* Automatic file segmentation.
* Automatic refresh for dead links.
* Resume uncompleted downloads.
* Support for Youtube, and a lot of stream websites "using youtube-dl
to fetch info and libcurl to download media".
* download entire video playlist or selected videos.
* download fragmented video streams, and encrypted/nonencrypted HLS
media streams.
* watch videos while downloading* "some videos will have no audio
until finish downloading".
* download video subtitles.
* write video metadata to downloaded files.
* check for application updates.
* Scheduling downloads
* Re-using existing connection to remote server.
* Clipboard Monitor.
* proxy support (http, https, socks4, and socks5).
* user/pass authentication, referee link, use cookies, video
thumbnail, subtitles.
* use custom cookies files.
* MD5 and SHA256 checksums.
* Custom gui themes.
* Set download Speed limit
* User can run shell commands or shutdown computer on download
completion.
* Control number of Concurrent downloads and Max. connections per
each download.
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This relies on ffmpeg and youtube-dl, and seems like a nice GUI. Not
sure if we already have something like this in Debian.
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