YouTube Filesystem
Dev tools
filesystem
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
5 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clever idea that uses a familiar filesystem UI
From 3 comments
The file system is a great UI that doesn't pretend to be a great UI. Thanks!
0xdeadbeefbabe on HNkudos, that's an excellent idea, combining out-of-the box thinking, data structuring, creating value all using basic tools. A tip to the hat. Nice work!
zeeed on HNHaha, from the title I expected this to be a solution for generating MP4s from arbitrary data that you could then upload to YouTube for backup. This is definitely really cool,…
andrewstuart2 on HN
Objections
Wasteful and abuses a free service
From 1 comment
That's a fascinating idea. Unlike gmail, there isn't an upper bound on how much you can store on YouTube. If you could encode data in a way that's resilient against re-encoding,…
JoshTriplett on HN
Read-only and no streaming; whole video downloads first
From 2 comments
It seems not to support streaming. It has to download the whole video before playing can begin.
kalmi10 on HNIt's read-only - you can play/copy youtube movies as a file
rasguanabana on HN
Missing installation instructions
From 1 comment
Are there any installations instructions? This seems to depend on a lot of libraries that are not specified anywhere.
fiatjaf on HN
Requests
Mount options or subdirectories for video quality
From 2 comments
Neat! Any plans to make the different video qualities quickly available? Maybe as a subdir named with the resolution, eg search/movie/480p.mp4 or maybe movie.1080p.mp4?
fragmede on HNHow about doing it with mount options, so someone would mount /mnt/youtube/hires /mnt/youtube/lowres with different options?
omribahumi on HN
Search results as paged directories
From 1 comment
Might I recommend not using the prev/next executables and instead adding another directory level to indicate search page, e.g. ytfs/search/1/video.mp4 would make it easy to…
rian on HN
Questions
Does it use a persistent cookie for personalization?
From 1 comment
Does this use a persistent cookie which YouTube can use to personalize search results?
walterbell on HN
Alternatives named
youtube-dl
From 1 comment
Interesting! Looks like this is youtube-dl combined with FUSE, so that you can use a normal video player to play and filesystem tools to browse, rather than downloading first.…
JoshTriplett on HN
livestreamer
From 1 comment
yes. you can force the streamable mpg4 download with the -f option (-f22), but it seems not all videos are encoded that way. livestreamer might be the tool of choice if you don't…
83a on HN