Hey hey.
I use the heck out of tuedachu/ytdl. One thing I would like to improve about it is that when you queue a download with ytdl-download it appears to be a synchronous call and it freezes emacs until youtube-dl/yt-dlp is able to start the actual download.
I’ve yet to dive into the code to see what synchronous function is being called – I’m very aware of the “single-threaded” nature of Emacs – but I use other libraries that are likely shelling and they do not hang like this and so I would like to see if there’s a way to I can bring whatever technique they are using over to a PR against tuedachu/ytdl.
Appreciate any advice from the crew here.
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Multi-processing is the only way for staying asynchronous.
I use dwim shell command for these things (async by default). For example https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command/blob/e4a139fe181ed1b576302fb36f3761fbf9914580/dwim-shell-commands.el#L83C7-L83C7
Disclosure: authored the package