youtube-dl dependency removal

[rigon]

Removing the dependency of youtube-dl will simplify greatly the overhead caused by using it.

There are projects in C/C++ that accomplishes this:

• https://github.com/Tarferi/youtubedownloader

An alternative would be compile to C the module of youtube-dl responsible to generate the URLs streams. Here is some info:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/138521/is-it-feasible-to-compile-python-to-machine-code
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4650243/convert-python-program-to-c-c-code

Other projects might be interesting have a look, but they use youtube-dl under the hood as well:

• https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il