It has been a while since I put out a release. I have done some experimenting but this version is similar to the last one. Updates

• Translation support in progress although I doubt this program will every be translated to another language
• Parsers slightly refactored
• Broken parsers fixed (can't remember which were broken)
• Queued items that have not been started are saved when saving a session now. Only items that had been started but were either paused, cancelled or finished would appear in the previous release
• Made a Windows version for this release
• Likely more but I can't remember

Downloads:

Linux: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed2x/youtubed-2x_2010-01-22.tar.gz Windows: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed2x/youtubed2x-win_2010-01-22.zip Archive: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed2x/youtubed-2x_archive_2010-01-22.tar.gz

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It has been a while since the previous release. Not too much has changed since I have been busy with school so much this semester. Anyway, on to the changes.

• YouTube flagged videos can now be downloaded without user credentials
• Session support added. List of videos is saved on program exit and restored when program is started
• Pause support. Downloads can now be paused and resumed at a later time
• Audio and video bitrate settings completely split. The audio stream of videos is no longer copied but re-encoded. The old method caused problems with some videos from some sites
• Right-click video menu updated. Input and output videos can be played and the output directory for a video can be opened
• Bug with right-click video menu fixed. Items can be switched and the menu is updated properly
• Supported sites window now includes links to associated web sites
• 4 parsers added (HardSexTube, Spankwire, Spike, YouJizz) and 1 parser removed (Porn2PC)

Also to note, there will not be a Windows build of this version unless some requests it. It wouldn't take much time to make the build but I just don't care right now. There is no point to this release at all. This program is just a major timesink. I don't even use my GP2X much anymore and I think I am going to skip on getting a Wiz.

Downloads:

http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed2x/youtubed-2x_2009-11-29.tar.gz

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New version. Now this program is around 4000 lines. I have to focus on other things, particularly regarding the upcoming school semester, so I will not be working on this application for a while; I have to commit myself to that decision this time around. This release has also been posted on SourceForge.

• New parser plugin system has been implemented. It is simple but it works. I should mention that there is no documentation on how to make a custom parser. If you want to make a parser, look at the code of existing parsers
• Fixes to allow application to work on Windows 7 and Windows Vista
• Added "Time Left" column to GUI. Works with downloading and transcoding
• Transcoding progress is now more accurate
• Right-click menu updated. "Play Video" and "Copy Video URL" options added
• Added button for opening the output folder using the desktop environment default file manager. Uses xdg-open command on Linux and start command on Windows
• 4 parsers added (ScrewAttack, GameTrailers, Yahoo Video, The Escapist). Now a total of 21 sites are supported
• Fixed regular expression for determining video resolution. Padding now works for mp4 video consistently
• Media paths are now found in a more flexible way

Downloads:

Linux: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed2x/youtubed-2x_2009-07-07.tar.gz
Windows: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed2x/youtubed2x-win_2009-07-07.zip
Archive: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed2x/youtubed-2x_archive_2009-07-07.tar.gz

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YouTubed-2x is now being hosted at SourceForge. After I released the last version, a member of the OpenHandhelds community, CSXM, asked about the status of the project and offered to help a little bit with the development of the project. So, it looks like YouTubed-2x will continue to be developed for the time being. Since there is interest in this program, I will work on it again as well; I will likely not be that involved since I want to do some other things. If this experiment doesn't go over well, the program will go back to being abandoned.

The first order of business is implementing a plugin system for the program. A plugin system will allow parsers to be added to the program and updated without releasing a new version of the program. I still don't know exactly how such a system should be implemented; the main problems at this point are how users will add the new plugins and what data structure will hold all the instances of parser classes.

The scope of this program has gone beyond what I originally intended. At this rate, it is basically becoming a mini-xVideoServiceThief.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/youtubed-2x

Lately, I have been using YouTubed-2x less than usual. Also, coding the program is not as fun as it used to be. The little time that I spend working on the program anymore just seems like a waste of time to me. So, I will package the changes that I have made and release a new version. This will likely be the last version I will ever publish. There have been some good additions with this version. Here is a list of the most significant changes.

• Icons are placed next to a video title in order to show which site a video is hosted at
• A downloader class has been made. Wget is no longer a dependency for this program
• Anonymous HTTP proxy support has been added
• 640x480 resolution option has been added. This option should be useful for watching videos while using the Tv-Out option of the GP2X
• Automatic download support has been added and enabled by default. Videos will immediately begin downloading once a URL has been added and a page has been parsed. Manual downloading is still available
• Process limit added. The default is 4 but setting the option to 0 will count as unlimited
• Right-click menu added. Only has a copy URL action
• Porn2Pc parser added. Videos listed on the site that originate from a website supported by this application will work
• Google Video parser updated, PacoPorn parser added, RedTube parser updated
• 17 websites are now supported by this program

Downloads:

Linux: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed-2x_2009-06-17.tar.gz
Windows: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed2x-win_2009-06-17.zip
Archive: http://www.ryochan7.com/files/projects/youtubed-2x_archive_2009-06-17.tar.gz

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Based on what I have seen, the videos converted with this program should also work with the new GP2X Wiz so I might start working on this application again if I get a Wiz and I find this program useful again. That is not very likely though. I do plan to get a Wiz sometime but I don't think that I will have a need for this application then. It is a shame that I am going to stop now since this program is close to being 3000 lines long. I still consider writing 1000 lines of code to be a major undertaking; I didn't even realize that this program was so close to 3000 lines until about a week ago. I don't know what I am going to do with the little amount of time that I will gain by not working on this app but I hope that it will go towards something more useful.

This is an incremental update but there are some neat changes made. The main motivation for releasing an update is that YouTube changed the format for high quality videos so the YouTube parser would only get the low quality version of videos. Now, the mp4 version of the file is used as the high quality video file on YouTube. Changes:

• Changed YouTube page parser to get the new default high quality format
• Experimental Windows release. Both the GUI and command-line versions work
• Site directories option added. Videos from a particular site are saved in their own directories
• Small preferences window added. FFmpeg location and site directories option can be set
• GirlsInTube parser added
• Timed updating of GUI. Download and transcode information is updated every 1/2 second. This is mainly for Windows since updating after each message from ffmpeg or wget was too intensive and would cause Windows to slow down
• Changed regular expressions used with ffmpeg due to new Ubuntu package
• RedTube and DailyMotion parsers fixed
• Fixed some issues with the padding code

Downloads:

Linux: http://ryochan7.webfactional.com/files/projects/youtubed-2x_2009-03-21.tar.gz
Windows binary: http://ryochan7.webfactional.com/files/projects/youtubed2x-win_2009-03-21.zip
Archive: http://ryochan7.webfactional.com/files/projects/youtubed-2x_archive_2009-03-21.tar.gz

I have to release this version prematurely so I can focus on my studies. This release is the most significant update for this project in a long time. There are plenty of changes that make it a much more worthwhile application; I know that I am already finding it more useful.

• GUI no longer uses a static queue. New downloads can be added and started while other downloads are in progress
• GUI module and contained classes have been rewritten
• Output videos now have padding added to preserve the original aspect ratio of the input video file
• Mpeg4 AVI file output support has been added
• Mpeg4 AVI file output is now the default as that export option is available in most distro packages for ffmpeg. Xvid AVI file output is still available and is still the recommended option if you have an ffmpeg package installed that supports encoding to Xvid (ex. Medibuntu package).
• GiantBomb.com parser added. Any page that has a GiantBomb video should work as the parser is very lenient

Not that much has changed with this release of YouTubed-2x. Here is a list of some of the more significant changes.

• Changed the code to finally allow for an install program using Distutils
• Fixed almost every broken parser except for the parser for 6.cn
• Added forgotten Dailymotion URL to the test suite
• Main script files no longer have the .py extension
• User config is now saved in home directory under the .youtubed-2x directory

This application most likely won't be touched again for a while.

Download: http://ryochan7.webfactional.com/files/projects/youtubed-2x_2009-01-14.tar.gz

I have been messing around with YouTubed-2x on my machine on occasion for the last few months so I am releasing my updates to the project. I can't remember most of what I changed but here are some of the noticeable changes.

• Updated ffmpeg and wget commands so they work with the versions bundled with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
• Added a small test suite
• Started an effort to re-factor the code to allow for a true install
• Pages are parsed in a thread so the GUI does not lock up
• Supported sites option has been added to help menu. It will be updated regularly
• Altered YouTube parser due to problems with some pages regarding high-quality versions. The problem does not seem to exist now. The parser now checks for a high-quality video download and will then revert to the standard quality version; old method parsed the video page for Javascript calls. Old example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwvix7uEQg0

It should be noted that several of the parsers in the program are currently broken; they are noted in the test suite and in the site parsers file. If people want them fixed then I will make an effort to fix them as soon as I can. Otherwise, I will take my time to fix any parsers that I don't use that are currently broken.

Download: http://ryochan7.webfactional.com/files/projects/youtubed-2x_2009-01-03.tar.gz

This is a quick update to YouTubed-2x. I have finally found tips on better practices regarding using PyGTK in multi-threaded applications; I was along the right track with the last release. Now I can say that the GUI is solid.

Also, XTube support has been removed. This was originally planned before the last release as XTube has become useless to me. The plan was to keep XTube support in YouTubed-2x until the parser broke and that has now happened.

Overall, this release is a very minor update.

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Download: http://www.lugop.org/~lainissol33t/stuff/youtubed-2x_2008-04-04.tar.gz