youtube-dl-gui VS media-downloader

Test yt-dlg using Wayland and check if fix the issue#137

If you prefer a GUI (Graphical User Interface), choose one from the youtube-dl subreddit's Wiki. For Windows yt-dlg is a good one. It uses yt-dlp under the hood.

download the latest version of yt-dlg (an updated fork): https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui/releases

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (or use https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI)

Edit: here’s a link to the GitHub for the updated version - https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui

If this program is the one they're talking about, which I think it is, then no. Installing through python is an option, but you can also download the setup.exe from the releases page which will install just like any other exe. It's even available through the Windows Store if that's your thing.

Second, use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (or https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI), then download the latest n6.0 (non-shared) zip for your platform (e.g. win64) from https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds and extract the 3 executables from the bin folder to the same folder as your yt-dlp executable.

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