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Old 06-15-2019, 06:33 AM   #16
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for that us Linux users have youtube-dl.
I found the user experience of youtube-dl painful sometimes. Imagine you want to download a 10GB video from youtube over a non-reliable connection. youtube seems to split the big video into many small parts (as the output of youtube-dl shows). If it fails a few times, it skips some of those small parts. Once it downloads the audio stream too and tries to merge the files using ffmpeg, something goes wrong and often a very small (much smaller than the original video size) split file is produced. And then it deletes the original video/audio file by default. Gigabytes of wasted traffic, wasted days wating for it to download. Do you know how to deal with such issues? Perhaps there's some magic combo of command line arguments that deal with such scenarios?
 
Old 06-15-2019, 09:17 AM   #17
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Do you know how to deal with such issues? Perhaps there's some magic combo of command line arguments that deal with such scenarios?
I use youtube-dl on a reliable wired internet connection and wouldn't even know how to start reproducing this issue; but as you rightly pointed out, it has loads of command line options - and also a very nice man page I might add - I'm sure something can be done about it. I know of the option to keep all temporary files, for sure. Or to specify a smaller resolution or filesize.
 
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Old 06-15-2019, 11:50 AM   #19
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There's also aria2, which you haven't mentioned trying.
 
Old 06-21-2019, 03:23 AM   #20
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We share those videos back and forth by using whatever file sharing site is cheapest that month. Hate to burst your ignorant view of the internet but not everyone uses file sharing sites for illegal software and porn.

Feel good about yourself?
I think the best way would probably be to set up one or two fileservers. Either you can set up a private GNU/Linux fileserver and allow her to download whatever videos and pictures you have, and at the same time she can upload video/pictures to you. But even better would be if you both have a fileserver and eliminate the "upload" aspect, unless you have great upload speeds and that is irrelevant.

I'm not talking a big server. Just a casual server which can be reliably accessed. It could be anything from an old machine to a laptop to a rasberry PI. Doesn't have to be super fancy, but it would help you both in the long run.
 
Old 06-24-2019, 05:32 AM   #21
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I think the best way would probably be to set up one or two fileservers.
What's wrong with torrenting?
That would be my preferred solution if I didn't already have a server running.
 
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Or, you know, you can use a service that's actually meant for this. Like Onedrive, Gdrive or Dropbox

The free tiers are definitely enough for transferring videos to a single other individual.

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What's wrong with torrenting?
The fact that there would only be one seed.

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Old 06-24-2019, 05:18 PM   #23
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The fact that there would only be one seed.
There's nothing wrong with that; and depending on how many people you share it with, it isn't even necessarily true.
I think torrenting was precisely made for this sort of stuff. File sharing.
 
  


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