How do I use youtube-dl and ffmpeg?

How do I use youtube-dl and ffmpeg?

Windows

1. Make a directory on your desktop or anywhere you like. Get a copy of youtube-dl.exe and copy the file in to your directory.
2. Create new text file and rename to download.
3. Get a copy of FFmpeg latest build for your windows architecture.
4. Step 4 (Optional)
5. By now your directory should look something like.

How do I use cookies in a text file?

cookies. txt

1. Introduction. Name: cookies.txt. Location: $SEARCH_HOME/conf/COLLECTION/
2. Description. Used to set pre-defined cookie values used by the crawler when updating a web collection. A collection’s cookies.
3. Format. Netscape cookie file format, one cookie per line.
4. Example. The example cookies.
5. See also. Web collections.

What does mtime mean in Debian-youtube-dl?

mtime is a filesystem field which stores last modified time for file. When youtube-dl downloads a file, it tries to set file mtime to same as in HTTP Last-Modified header. When –no-mtime is used file mtime is not modified manually.

How to download part of video with YouTube-dl.dl?

This should output two URLs (each for video and audio streams). Now send a head request to the first URL (which links to the video stream) to fetch the total content length of this stream:

Why does it take so long to download YouTube videos?

YouTube is ridiculously restrictive with their videos, they split the audio and video streams into different files, and they track you/sell your data; therefore, one could have difficulties with the method of downloading it partly then hitting Ctrl + C.

Can you download the middle of a YouTube video?

Downloading any middle portion from the video should also be possible in this way but is going probably way much trickier because YouTube places the metadata at the beginning of the stream (in the first few bytes) and without it being present in the downloaded media, the stream won’t play at all.