YoutubeDLSharp VS FFMediaToolkit

Compare YoutubeDLSharp vs FFMediaToolkit and see what are their differences.

YoutubeDLSharp

A simple .NET wrapper library for youtube-dl and yt-dlp (by Bluegrams)
Youtube youtube-dl youtube-dl-wrapper C# .NET Video HacktoberFest yt-dlp yt-dlp-wrapper
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FFMediaToolkit

FFMediaToolkit is a cross-platform video decoder/encoder library for .NET that uses FFmpeg native libraries. It supports video frames extraction, reading stream metadata and creating videos from bitmaps in any format supported by FFmpeg. (by radek-k)
Ffmpeg Video Decoder Encoder H264 Mp4 .NET Netstandard Netcore C# Library frame-extraction video-encoder
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6.4 4.6
4 months ago 9 months ago
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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YoutubeDLSharp

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FFMediaToolkit

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  • C# on Arch: FFmpeg (FFMediaToolkit) MediaOutput..Video.AddFrame(FrameToImageData(ImageData)) causes program to exit with code 139
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 19 May 2021
    Bug has been reported: https://github.com/radek-k/FFMediaToolkit/issues/81
  • C# : FFmpeg (FFMediaToolkit) on linux System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Cannot found the default FFmpeg directory
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 6 May 2021
    I have C# project in rider and FFMediaToolkit installed via NuGet. I made instance of MediaBuilder. When I hit run I get this error message: `` /home/john/Projects/Slimulator/bin/Debug/net5.0/Slimulator /home/john/Projects/Slimulator/test_mazes/small-maze-food2.png Loading file /home/john/Projects/Slimulator/test_mazes/small-maze-food2.png Unhandled exception. System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Cannot found the default FFmpeg directory. On Windows you have to set "FFmpegLoader.FFmpegPath" with full path to the directory containing FFmpeg shared build ".dll" files For more informations please see https://github.com/radek-k/FFMediaToolkit#setup at FFMediaToolkit.FFmpegLoader.LoadFFmpeg() at FFMediaToolkit.Encoding.Internal.OutputContainer.Create(String extension) at FFMediaToolkit.Encoding.MediaBuilder..ctor(String path, Nullable1 format) at FFMediaToolkit.Encoding.MediaBuilder.CreateContainer(String path) at Slimulator.AnimationBuffer..ctor(String videoPath, Int32 height, Int32 width, Int32 frameRate) in /home/john/Projects/Slimulator/AnimationBuffer.cs:line 11 at Slimulator.Simulation..ctor(Space space, String seed, String outputVideoPath) in /home/john/Projects/Slimulator/Simulation.cs:line 12 at Slimulator.Launcher.Main(String[] args) in /home/john/Projects/Slimulator/Launcher.cs:line 8

What are some alternatives?

When comparing YoutubeDLSharp and FFMediaToolkit you can also consider the following projects:

YoutubeDownloader - Downloads videos and playlists from YouTube

FFMpegCore - A .NET FFMpeg/FFProbe wrapper for easily integrating media analysis and conversion into your C# applications

YoutubeDLSharp vs YoutubeDownloader FFMediaToolkit vs FFMpegCore