dvd VS media-downloader

For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV.

(Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.)

For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundlcoud client.

From the Kotlin source for "dvd":

Video downloader app powered by yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl).

Features

Download video/audio from 1000+ sites supported by yt-dlp.

Run custom yt-dlp commands.

Update yt-dlp version from settings.

Share link via other apps.

References

dvd - https://github.com/yausername/dvd

youtubedl-android - https://github.com/yausername/youtubedl-android

yt-dlp - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)

Check out an app called DVD. It uses yt-dlp (which it downloads and updates for you).

On android I use this app works great

For Android I use DVD

Try DVD on F-droid or you can find it on GitHub

DVD is the one I use.

Just started using mediadownloader (https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader) to download youtube playlists. Works well except downloaded videos are in webm. How to download/convert to mp4?

I am currently using Media Downloader to backup my entire YouTube channel. The program does pretty much everything I need but two things: I would also like to extrapolate the Metadata (video descriptions, tags, etc...) for each video I download.

Try Media Downloader. The default is 4 concurrent downloads but you can change it to as many as you want in the configure tab.

When we replace our phones, we reset the old ones and turn them into kid phones. I will save offline copies of different YouTube videos, movies, etc. for local playback.

Media Downloader: https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader