I was checking out the man page for yt-dlp and saw that it mentions 'yt-dlp' is a fork of 'youtube-dlc', which is no longer active. I'm curious about what exactly the 'dlc' and 'dlp' stand for and how they relate to each other. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Here's the scoop: Initially, there was youtube-dl. Then it got forked into youtube-dlc, which eventually led to the creation of yt-dlp. So, 'dlc' is from that earlier fork, while 'dlp' comes from the newer version. It's basically a progression of these projects!
I get that, but do you know if the naming has some reason behind it? Like, were there other forks in between that were abandoned?
Ah, thanks for clarifying that!