youtube-dlp-gui-installer VS lossless-cut

I also use archive.ph for article paywalls, Night Owl for global darkmode, NordVPN for jumping geofences (I know their ads are a meme and that they're not the best for privacy, but they have a huge range of IP addresses for geounblocking against which the smaller, more privacy-conscious VPNs can't compete), and AnyStream Plus, StreamFab, the Internet Downloader Manager, JDownloader2, and kannagi0303's gui for yt-dlp together with The Stream Detector (filter for "master") for downloading videos.

From the United States, I watch shows that are geolocked to the United Kingdom and separatist Leprechaunland using NordVPN (currently four dollars a month with a two-year plan, plus 20% cash back if purchased through Rakuten) and download them using yt-dlp-gui and The Stream Detector (which are free; filter for "master" in TSD and copy and paste the link into yt-dlp-gui) and my lifetime subscriptions to AnyStream Plus (€120) and StreamFab ($280, but it has cheaper clones which work just as well for under $50 such as BirdBirdFly, FlixPal, Keepstreams, and MyStreamDownloader, and can even be used for free with a crack; I didn't know about of any these options when I bought StreamFab).

If neither of those work, install The Stream Detector in Firefox, pin it, copy one of the URLs (master of available) and paste it into a DRM downloader tool(I use kannagi0303's GUI for yt-dlp).

oh , just used the youtube-dlp-gui-installer

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