youtube-dl-wpf VS youtube-dl-gui

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youtube-dl-wpf is what I use, works well for CLI maggots like me -- doesn't feel like building a .bat script but also want the freedom to alter the actual argments that's passed to yt-dlp.

Once I posted a super long reply to a super long and messy feature request: https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf/issues/131. It's basically like this:

> First of all, thank you for your support...$blah_blah_blah

> Unfortunately, I have to say no to some of your requests. $project is just a small side project of mine. My approach to its development will always be to prioritize my own use cases, while also catering to the community as much as I can. As you may have noticed, I have already implemented a bunch of new features and made quite a few changes based on community feedback. Decisions on whether to adopt a proposal from the community are made by evaluating the usefulness of the proposed feature or change for me and the wider community, and the feasibility of implementing it in my limited spare time.

> Now that I have explained my ways of doing side projects to you, let's go through your proposals:

heres a gui that i use. you just have to point to ffmpeg and yt-dlp executable in the settings and its all set up https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf

A small project of mine: https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf

It uses WPF so it can only run on Windows though.

you can try using yt-dlp along with a GUI of some sort, like Cube YouTube Downloader.

and its gui https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf

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.