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Questions - youtube-dl

How to change youtube_dl output location with python

I wrote a python script to download a list of YouTube URLs, and I want to change the output folder by the subject I'm downlaoding. For example, When I'm downloading a playlist, I want the videos in th...
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LaurenceY

python

youtube-dl

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

Latest Answer

dl_ops = { 'outtmpl': 'd:/YouTube/%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' } You can see that in this line you specify a path to be D:/YouTube/ {uploader name} / {title of the video} . {extension th...
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Open Video Downloader Error: Postprocessing: ffmpeg not found

Error Thrown: ERROR: Postprocessing: ffmpeg not found. Please install or provide the path using --ffmpeg-location Context: macOS Big Sur M1 Chip, using the open video downloader program GitHub releas...
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Nick the Community Scientist

ffmpeg

runtime-error

youtube-dl

Votes: 0

Answers: 2

Latest Answer

Solution: Use a package manager like Homebrew to install the following in order of appearance below: YouTube-dl ffmpeg For people that are new to Homebrew, you need to run these commands or your Ter...
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Nick the Community Scientist

mpv doesn't recognise ytdl_path as a key

I'm trying to use yt-dlp rather than youtube-dl due to the bottlenecking on download speeds in youtube-dl but I can't get it to work. My mpv.conf file looks like: script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=/usr/...
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tcotts

linux

youtube-dl

mpv

Votes: 0

Answers: 2

Latest Answer

I had the same problem as you, on mpv version 0.32.0. The problem is that the ytdl-hook settings category is not an option in these older versions. Your solutions are to update your mpv version or to ...
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vowels

How to specify ydl options for download video with audio?

I'm using youtube-dl and Python for download a mp4 video (with sound/audio included); I get the mp4 video, but, I'm unable to set the correct ydl options to get the video with sound. My goal is to do...
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Marco Aurelio Fernandez Reyes

python

youtube-dl

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

Latest Answer

After more tests, I leave the ydl options as follows: ydl_opts = {'format': 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=mp4]/mp4+best[height<=480]'} Then, I modified further the source code for set in a sep...
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Marco Aurelio Fernandez Reyes

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