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* Open System Preferences and go to Security & Privacy > General. * Unlock the panel using the lock button in the bottom-left corner. * Where it says Allow apps downloaded from, select Anywhere. * After launching Downie for the first time, you can switch this setting back to your original setting. Note: OS X 10.10 support will be dropped as of Jan 1, 2017. There are sites that require postprocessing the downloaded video anyway. In particular, YouTube often splits the video into separate video and audio files the conversion is then necessary to put them together. Without it you'd end up with two files instead of one one with just the sound, one just with the picture. Similarly, many sites use M3U8 (HLS or F4M (HDS manifests, which describe videos that are split into dozens,

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