yt-dlp VS lossless-cut

yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork) for downloading videos and auto cut sponsored content

is the way to go in windows. Note that you can make this process much faster for larger channels in yt-dlp using --flat-playlist

In case anyone else is looking for this, this has been added in yt-dlp

yt-dlp is the one I use these days following the controversy surrounding the main -dl project.

ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (caused by ); please report this issue on https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dlc with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

I have added a --windows-filenames option to yt-dlp to force the filename to be compatible with windows.

Same issue with yt-dlp. I can only get the first segment

Another Improved version of Youtube-DL: https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2021.02.15/youtube-dlc.exe

Same as youtube-dl. Just download the latest release and run it with youtube-dlc instead of youtube-dl

For youtube comments, the fork https://github.com/pukkandan/yt-dlp supports it so you'll have to download it and run a command like:

For lossless cut, there's the LosslessCut [1] app, which even has an experimental but mostly working version of a "smart cut" feature [2] (aka. only re-encode the minimal mandatory amount of frames if you trim at a point between 2 key frames)

[1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

[2]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

> thought I cropped/edited a video, it is still there in full length and resolution

It's been possible to create a clip from a video file that merely changes what parts of the video are displayed without effecting the data in the original since the Classic Mac OS days.

If you want to completely remove unwanted portions of a video to reduce the size without a loss of quality, there are many options. LosslessCut is one option that is both free and open source.

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

LosslessCut

Lossless Cut is probably the simplest way to cut out parts of a video without having to re-encode it or use an online service. It is open source, free and available for all platforms. It is in essence a frontend for FFMPEG and cuts without re-encoding, so the results are instantaneous.

Additionally I would like if possible to shorten (both to reduce dimension and to make them less boring) my videos by trimming the beginning and/or ends where often there is nothing interesting happening and possibly change the thumbnails for easier identification. Do you know of any tool that does the job with the minimum quality degradation possible? Many years ago I've tried with some videos and a tool I don't remember anymore, ending up with a bunch of corrupted files :( I've found https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut for the point above.. need to try it. please let me know what experience you have with it.

Lossless Cut would probably be a better choice for this. Will let you cut out the commercials without having to re-encode the video.

>Of course, you could only re-encode only the GoPs that get broken while keeping the rest intact, and I guess this would be better and a lot faster than re-encoding everything. I don't know if any application tries to do this.

LosslessCut does have experimental support for this partial re-encode called "smart cut" [1]. Since it's using ffmpeg internally, the challenge become how to instruct ffmpeg to do this[2]?

[1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126