Comment by dzhang314

One more thing: the choice of Wolfram Mathematica as an implementation language was a deliberate decision on my part. Not for any technical reason -- YouTubeDrive doesn't use any of Mathematica's symbolic math capabilities -- but because I didn't want YouTubeDrive to be too easy for anybody on the internet to download and use, lest I attract unwanted attention from Google. In the eyes of my paranoid freshman self, the fact that YouTubeDrive is somewhat obtuse to install was a feature, not a bug.

So, feel free to have a look and have a laugh, but don't try to use YouTubeDrive for any serious purpose! This encoding scheme is so horrendously inefficient (on the order of 99% overhead) that the effective bandwidth to and from YouTube is something like one megabyte per minute.