TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection VS ffmpeg-python

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Hopefully that saves someone some extra googling.

For more hardcore automated archival, I do this on linux (which doesn't have the character length issues) and I'd recommend looking at the following for inspiration

- https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate... (Supports sponsorblock, and it turns out truly finding the best quality is pretty complex)

- https://github.com/dmn001/youtube_channel_archiver (A .conf file is very nice to use.)

- https://github.com/dbeley/youtube-archiver (how to set up a systemd service)

I am trying to play some videos downloaded with yt-dlp on my local web server. However, because of the codecs my current format code chooses when downloading I have noticed a number of videos will not play within in a web browser. My current format code is based on TheFrenchGhosty's youtube-dl script collection which chooses codecs for quality at the cost of compatibility.

Note that this option is somewhat broken. At least it was for years. For this reason, there are extra scripts that try to grab the actual best video + audio like https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection

If you want to do complicated bullshit, like setting up automated downloading of channels for archiving, then I recommend this: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection : Initially might seem confusing, this is a good set of scripts for looking at how yt-dlp is "supposed" to be set up script-wise. Good for manually messing with things and setting up a cron job to run. These scripts will assist in downloading more than just the video, like thumbnails and metadata, and comments.

yt-dlp also scripts SO nicely. Take a look at this.

My scripts of course! https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection

Even given an option it can be difficult to find the corresponding documentation, if only because of the many different submodules and encoders and decoders and filters that have o-so-slightly different options. That said, I've just switched from pydub to ffmpeg-python (due to memory issues of the former[1]) and judging from the Jupiter notebook[2] it seems a much more intuitive method of constructing ffmpeg pipelines.

[1] https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/issues/135

[2] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/tree/master/examp...

You might want to look into ffmpeg-python as well

This bug on github sounds like the same issue you have

take a look at https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python

The ffmpeg-python python package still makes use of the “future” python package (search for “past” in the code base). These should be removed and updated as necessary.

I've had a look through these examples, but I can't get the numpy conversion to work (I get broken pipe errors, but if any of you can get it working this solution would be ideal)

Your going to be wanting to enumerate all the files in a folder, shuffle them, and then use a library for splicing them together. A quick google search brought me to moviePy, which seems pretty solid. ffmpeg is the industry standard for programmatically working with video, but it's...complicated to say the least. Looks like there are some good python bindings for it, but it may be overkill for this project. I'm sure there are others out there too.

stitching [0], [1], and [2]

[0]https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python#quickstart

[1]https://kkroening.github.io/ffmpeg-python/#ffmpeg.zoompan

[2]https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#Examples-133

I've been using ffmpeg-python recently, and it will do a lot of the crazy complex transforms for you, and you can write sane python code vs. trying to deal with the crazy default ffmpeg syntax.

https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python

ffmpeg is the traditional Swiss Army knife for video stuff. there's a Python library out there. might not be appropriate in an embedded environment though, it's a bit of a beast.