I was looking through the man page for yt-dlp and noticed a statement that piqued my curiosity: "yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc." Can anyone explain the actual difference between yt-dlp and yt-dlc? What do those abbreviations really mean?
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The evolution of these tools is pretty straightforward. It all started with youtube-dl, which then branched out into youtube-dlc. After that, yt-dlp was created as a fork of youtube-dlc. So basically, yt-dlp is based on an earlier version of the code from youtube-dlc. It's like a family tree of code!
Ah, thanks for clarifying!
But like, any idea why they chose those specific letters? Did other forks just get scrapped?