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@todrobbins @nelson The saved stream is also super crunchy at the left edge, where new pixels appear, while the YT player handles them gracefully.

@todrobbins @nelson The ISS stream is live again, and playing in the browser next to vlc playing the yt-dlp stream (with the settings above) shows pretty clear differences. The yt-dlp stream is oversharp on I-frames but struggles between them; it clearly isn’t good at the translational motion.

@nelson Meaning: the 311 stream that it writes to disk does not in fact have the advertised bitrate.

@nelson I know about them but it’s possible I’m using them wrong. I picked a terrible time to post this, because the stream is both off and on the night side right now, but if you run that when it actually works, it seems to be much lower-quality than what plays in a browser at the same time.

This is what I’m running:

yt-dlp --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0" --cookies-from-browser firefox -f 311 "youtube.com/watch?v=P9C25Un7xa"

I assume the problem here is that YT runs stuff browserside to negotiate up to the good stream, but I don’t know.

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Any tips on saving a YouTube stream (specifically, the ISS camera feed)? What yt-dlp saves is much lower bitrate than what I request it to fetch, and this seems to be a known bug of sorts.

Is it more important for toast to be:

It’s a really difficult time to be raising sponsorship for a tech-industry adjacent community event! We’re still seeking sponsors for @emf this year, to help us cover live talk transcription, on-site childcare, transport, and expense support for speakers, artists, and attendees.

If you’re interested or know someone who is, I’d love to hear from you. More info at https://emfcamp.org/sponsor 💖#emfcamp

@ceejbot You could get tiny little speakers to play snorks and grunts, like the awful synthetic hum that electric cars have.

As a PhD student, I was fascinated to see how many bright peers were developing price-fixing algorithms, under the rationale of market optimization and helping businesses.

This month, the FTC reminded everyone that this is still illegal.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing?utm_campaign=landlords_and_property_ma&utm_content=1709317844&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

🚨 http://fjord.style site refresh, including a ~portfolio?! It's a very weird feeling seeing so much of my stuff in one place

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