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| title: "the evil has been defeated" | |
| date: "Feb 26, 2023" | |
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| alt: "meowth jumping up into the sky very excitedly" | |
| hey, ever wanted to download a youtube video without a hassle? cobalt is here to help. this update fixes all issues related to youtube downloads. | |
| not only that, but it also introduces features never before seen in a downloader, such as youtube dub downloads! read below to see what's up :) | |
| <span class="text-backdrop">tl;dr:</span> | |
| - audio in youtube videos FINALLY no longer gets cut off. | |
| - you now can pick any video resolution you want (from 360p to 8k) and any possible youtube video codec (h264/av1/vp9). | |
| - you now can download youtube videos with dubs in your native language. just check settings > audio. | |
| - youtube processing has been vastly sped up. | |
| ok, now onto the nerdy part of changelog. this update is pretty huge and includes improvements across the board. | |
| service improvements: | |
| - all youtube functionality has been reworked. cobalt now relies on innertube apis, not web scraping. | |
| - random audio cut off issue has been fixed, let me know if it ever occurs again. (closes #62, #66, #75, #88). | |
| - added support for youtube dubs. currently it's using your browser's default language when enabled, but i have plans on making a picker. i'll ask people on twitter and mastodon if this feature is needed, and add a picker in next updates. | |
| - instead of adding more quality presets, i added granular quality options. pick whatever you like, from 360p up to 4320p (for all services, not just youtube). | |
| - replaced a format picker with codec picker for youtube. you can pick h264, av1, or vp9. all of them should work as expected (closes #88). | |
| - youtube audio files are now properly matched to corresponding video files. | |
| - it's now always possible to download pristine h264 720p/360p videos from youtube. these videos will work ANYWHERE, so they're default for mobile. | |
| - youtube requests are no longer permanently cached, ram usage should drop even further. | |
| - youtube video and audio file names now include codec and dub language when applicable. | |
| - max video and audio duration limits have been bumped up to 3 hours. | |
| - general performance of entire youtube download process has been greatly improved. | |
| - vk module has been reworked to be more compact and not make use of outdated technique of quality picking. should also be way more reliable. | |
| internal improvements: | |
| - cleaned up services config, all constants have been moved directly to modules for quicker access. | |
| - matching module has been slightly cleaned up. | |
| interface improvements: | |
| - many descriptions and error messages have been slightly tuned to be less wordy. | |
| - unnecessary title duplications in settings have been merged into one. | |
| - added more clarity to quality and codec descriptions. | |
| if you use cobalt api, please note that you have to update your creation to support new features. | |
| this is the second batch of 5.x improvements, there's way more to come. thank you for being here, i really appreciate your support. | |
| if you want to thank me (the developer), there's a nice tab under this changelog that has "donations" text on it. anything helps me continue developing and hosting the friendliest media downloader :D |