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Originally Posted by LeifH12345

Anyone can download a youtube video post-stream via 3rd party soft like jdl, I don't see the need to torrent it here.

The need is because it's a medium-sized pain to actually capture the stream in the highest quality, clip it without reencoding, and prepare a text file. It's useful for one person to do the work and create a canonical version of a show, and it's much more efficient for one person to do the capture for every set and let downloaders grab/request the ones they care about. We don't need everyone capturing streams privately without any sharing for the same reason that we don't need 30 people at every show capturing an audience recording for later listening - that's what the sharing is for.

For one example of how this can be non-trivial, DIME has a lot of 1080p H.264 pro-shots from Coachella this year, despite 4K being available, because 4K was only available in VP9 and YouTube made it harder to get the VP9 streams than the H.264 streams. A lot of people ran yt-dlp with default settings and didn't realize they weren't getting the highest available quality.

And that's on DIME, where people who do this sort of thing on a regular basis congregate. Reddit is full of captures made with screen recording software, or reencoded with bloat, or AI upscaled, all sorts of problems like that. TTD has the opportunity to provide a useful service by facilitating the sharing of well-done captures.