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Mar 29, 2016 · @s4y youtube-dl will indeed transcode when it needs to (--audio-format option) but you are right here: it should not be the case with that line, because you are forcing youtube-dl to download two files (bestaudio[ext=mp4] and bestvideo[ext=m4a]) that have the same kind of container in common (mp4), so whatever their content, when remuxing it, they will be stacked in another mp4 without any ...
Sep 18, 2015 · So in summary, run. youtube-dl --abort-on-unavailable-fragment [URL to video file] (option --abort-on-unavailable-fragment might be important as you end up interrupting the download with Ctrl + C), let it download for a bit, then press Ctrl + C. Optional: rename the [file].mkv.part file to [file].mkv.
Aug 19, 2020 · Youtube's MP4 videos are encoded using the H.264/AVC codec. Youtube's WEBM videos are usually encoded using the VP9 codec which is a much more efficient and newer codec which allows to compress video better (which means a smaller file size) while providing a perceptually better image quality.
May 26, 2021 · Yeah, sacrificing some amount of quality during transcoding is what I was expecting. I guess I figured that YouTube’s way of doing things must be a bit bloated and there must be a way to have youtube-dl tell ffmpeg to make the video a bit more economical when transcoding, even at the same resolution (like the way JPEG encoding works, with its different levels of compression),
Feb 18, 2019 · Here I am using following options: -f 22 for video format. -c for resume download. -i for ignore errors. -o for output file name. -s 200000 for limit download speed to 200KB. However, instead of downloading the video at 200KB and saving it as "interview.mp4", it is giving following error: ERROR: fixed output name but more than one file to download.
Jul 4, 2019 · youtube-dl provides another two separate parameters, --write-info-json and --skip-download. If you just use --write-info-json you'll get the json written but also the video, which is not wanted. If you just use --skip-download you'll get nothing downloaded
Dec 20, 2017 · The solution is that these are two commands, they are supposed to be executed separately: First download the video file, then process it. $ youtube-dl "link". $ ffmpeg -i Lec*.mp4 -map_channel 0.1.1 -ac 1 -vcodec copy fixed.mp4. Side note: It would have been much easier if you had given the source of the commands from the start...
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Jan 15, 2023 · The thing is, I don't want to have to download the entire video only to extract a small segment. The solution I thought of was to do the following: download the imprecise video+audio segment as before; download a precise audio only segment (I'm assuming this is possible because there are no keyframes)
Aug 4, 2023 · If I download a video using youtube-downloader I can watch the part file while downloading (in my case using mpv). Suppose I cannot or don't want to select a format containing both video and audio then the audio in the part file is missing because it is downloaded and merged after the video download is complete.
