Why would I want to mess with using a web browser for video in my living room, probably getting hassled over its (lack of) digital restrictions management lockdown, signing into a Google account with all of the surveillance pwnage that implies, ads (including ads for senile political ragebait) plastered all over my experience, while becoming dependent on a UI that can change at any time, likely to demand money? Youtube is a step back in experience, something to be suffered when the thing you want to watch is only available there (ie network effects). Meanwhile, Babylon 5 has been free ~forever on torrents.

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pwg 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Why would I want to mess with using a web browser for video in my living room

No need for all that. Just use yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) to download them as video files, and then just play the video files as you would any other video file.

Just tested yt-dlp on s1e1 to verify it worked, and it worked perfectly to download the video.

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serf a day ago | parent | prev [-]

okay, then be happy there will be some new injected life into the fandom

or re-read the release as "B5 now available for download via YT-DLP for free!"

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mindslight a day ago | parent [-]

Sure, there is value to corporate top-down synchronization telling everyone to focus on a specific piece of media at the same time. I wasn't really complaining about that. In fact it would be interesting if we could recreate the effect some way in a more distributed culture.

But no, in my experience yt-dlp no longer just works unless you make your identity legible to Google (eg naive residential IP or supplying a logged-in session cookie).

	▲	pwg 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> But no, in my experience yt-dlp no longer just works unless you make your identity legible You need to upgrade your yt-dlp then. The newest versions still work without any session cookies or other such nonsense.