Re: (was Re: Adding a description text property for a track) non-free javascript and ytdl

[Yoni Rabkin]

Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:

> On Thu 2022-03-17 11:17:13 -0400, Yoni Rabkin wrote:
>
>> I realized that I don't know a lot about ytdl/youtube-dl and went to
>> have a look. As a result, I came across a potential show-stopper for
>> inclusion in Emms in any form.
>>
>> I was concerned when I saw that ytdl/youtube-dl has a javascript
>> interpreter built-in.
>
> If there were no mpv binding for emms, a proposal to add it would be
> rejected based on the same ground, because mpv by default supports
> playing all the urls supported by ytdl, through ytdl.

Someone who doesn't want that to happen would simply not have youtube-dl
on their machine.

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