yt-dlp VS FFmpeg-Builds

You can put these options in a config file and they will become the default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#configur...

Yep. yt-dlp and youtube-dl

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Will also start to feel the impact. My theory is that we will see a bunch of new video hosting sites as youtube itself attempts to lock down its ecosystem. They haven't paid attention in any adversarial way as far as I can tell.

When they do, it wont be great.

The points you make aren't unreasonable.

It is necessary to establish clear boundaries of what can and can be provided by the maintainers. If not done at an earlier stage of the project, the support burden becomes too much to bear at which point the maintainer transfers ownership, and the project suffers from catastrophic consequences such as the xz backdoor we're talking about here, or other cases where the project mostly stalls and serves as an ego-boosting platform for the new maintainer, as was the case with PhantomJS[6].

This can also happen in your life, where a "friend" sees that you possess a certain skill, and then gradually tries to push an inordinate amount of their personal work related to this field onto you.

Personally, I think it's best to use an approach with extremely clear communication as to what the maintainer can and cannot provide. This can be seen, for example, in yt-dlp[1], where the consumer is clearly informed upfront that not providing detailed information as requested will lead them to block said consumer; or sqlite where their position regarding contributed patches[2] and support[3] is similarly made clear.

Having a shouty BDFL like Torvalds can also help improve code quality[4] and questionable contributions[5], though it is better that the shouty BDFL makes statements that are professional and do not show as much aggression; so for example, "Mauro, shut the fuck up"[7] would become "Mauro, your response is completely unbecoming for a Linux kernel maintainer, and is not in line with the promise of not breaking userspace."

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/new?assignees=&label...

[2] https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

[3] https://www.sqlite.org/support.html

[4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/linux_6_8_rc2/

[5] https://cse.umn.edu/cs/linux-incident

[6] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/14541

[7] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

Or just "yt-dlp "

yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) still works pretty well at the current state of Twitter.

To download audio from YouTube videos, you'll utilize the widely used yt-dlp library, which can be installed using the pip command as follows:

Use: `yt-dlp with --write-comments --no-download --batch-file FILE`

- FILE is a text file with a list of YouTube id's/URL's

- https://superuser.com/a/1732443/4390

- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

> Then youtube-dl wasn't a thing anymore (maybe it is again?)...

yt-dlp is definitely a thing: <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp>

For the most part the metadata will only be useful if you download from an artist's official youtube channel. Thus you will still have to look over the metadata with mp3tag. You also need ffmpeg installed to have this command work as it involes converting codecs

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Thanks, that worked (https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-n6.0-latest-win64-gpl-6.0.zip). Any idea when it'll be fixed in the master build?

Download https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl.zip

You also have to download yt-dlp’s build of ffmpeg and save it in the same location as yt-dlp.

They recommend using their own builds: https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds

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.

It should be fairly easy to set up on Fedora. Install (I put it in /opt and add it to path) yt-dlp/FFmpeg, then install (/opt + path) yt-dlp/yt-dlp. yt-dlp/FFmpeg should come with its required dependencies (don't quote me). YT-DLP comes with most dependencies bundled, except FFmpeg. AtomicParsley is the only other one I've installed.

Download an ffmpeg build for your system. https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases Extract the contents of the "bin" folder within the downloaded file to somewhere convenient, like, C:\Path. I just created a folder named "Path" there because I can.