YouTube downloader that grabs all videos of a channel?

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Re: YouTube downloader that grabs all videos of a channel?

#16 Post by Userfriendly »

freakazoid wrote:If you're grabbing just the .m4a audio, you also have to demux it before it plays properly:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/423508/c ... 061_423510
3D Youtube Downloadeder and Tencoder automatically remuxes it into DASH-less M4A if anybody else worries about that.

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Re: YouTube downloader that grabs all videos of a channel?

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Just a little info on recent youtube-dl versions for downloading audio only files. From this post https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issue ... t-71235224

What this means is downloading those high quality 256k audio files will automatically be remuxed from DASH m4a to a media player friendly m4a's. This requires FFMPEG binary to be in the same directory as youtube-dl or path be specified with --ffmpeg-location PATH

So post-processing is automatic now for those DASH audio only files. Those command line options you had before can be a lot shorter :)

edit: Found some additional options you can use for youtube-dl https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2404. Embed cover art and metadata. Requires AtomicParsley http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/.

So some videos are just audio with static image of album art or something. So this lets you download and embed covert art and youtube info metadata into downloaded m4a audio files.

youtube-dl.exe, ffmpeg.exe, and AtomicParsley.exe same folder together.

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youtube-dl -f bestaudio --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --restrict-filenames --download-archive VideoIDs.txt <youtube video/playlist/channel url here>

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Re: YouTube downloader that grabs all videos of a channel?

#18 Post by webfork »

Userfriendly wrote:
freakazoid wrote:If you're grabbing just the .m4a audio, you also have to demux it before it plays properly:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/423508/c ... 061_423510
3D Youtube Downloadeder and Tencoder automatically remuxes it into DASH-less M4A if anybody else worries about that.
The TEncoder dev ozok is here on this forum so you might try reaching out to him on this if it's a problem.

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Re: YouTube downloader that grabs all videos of a channel?

#19 Post by Karliyty »

[Moderator note: this is not freeware]

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Here is probably the best solution https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/guides/how ... aylist.htm

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#20 Post by webfork »

Karliyty wrote:Here is probably the best solution https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/guides/how ... aylist.htm
That program is not freeware.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/D ... load.shtml
Site is NOT clear about this fact.

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