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How do I extract audio from youtube-DL?
Method 1:
- Using youtube-dl, download the audio track in wav (uncompressed) format: $ youtube-dl –extract-audio –audio-format wav -o [OUTPUT].wav ‘[URL]’
- After youtube-dl finishes downloading the audio track, convert the wav file to an MP3 using ffmpeg: $ ffmpeg -i [OUTPUT].wav -acodec mp3 -ab 256k -ac 2 [OUTPUT].mp3.
Where do youtube-DL files go?
Where does Youtube-dl download YouTube files? and of course substitute your actual url for ‘youtube file url’. This example sends the completed download to your Desktop. With this in place all downloaded files will automatically go to your Desktop.
How do I change the Youtube-DL settings?
You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and macOS, the system wide configuration file is located at /etc/youtube-dl. conf and the user wide configuration file at ~/. config/youtube-dl/config .
How to resolve youtube-dl unable to download audio?
This allows you to specify the format you want to download. To see the formats available for the file (video file), you can use youtube-dl -F. This will list all formats available for that particular file. Please note that you have to include the the URL for the video, and write something like this: youtube-dl -F https://youtu.be/FWxtFTHO1ak.
Why does youtube-dl not merge audio and video?
The problem I’m encountering is that the downloaded result has no audio component. The video component works as expected. The console output doesn’t seem to indicate that audio is downloaded either.
Why does youtube-dl not play high resolution videos?
The is because how YouTube works. By default, youtube-dl use the best without merging or remux. However, high resolution video does not come with audio because it uses the same audio after threshold. By default, youtube-dl use the best without merging or remux. If ffmpeg is in the $path, it will merge them by default and delete the single files.
Why is there no sound in YouTube videos?
Hi, there is no sound in the videos I downloaded from youtube. Is anyone else having the same issue? I used this command. Tried playing the video with vlc and umplayer. youtube-dl ‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxajLWwzqY’ works fine, could you post the video urls and maybe the output for the available formats ( run youtube-dl THE_URL -F)