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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)

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[–] B_DL@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I mean, you don't need anything; it'll work with no flags. I have these:

$ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
--embed-subs
--embed-metadata
--embed-chapters
--embed-thumbnail
--sponsorblock-mark=all
$

That'll just embed some useful metadata in the file.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 2 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

Also if you just want the audio to listen to (I like to do this with TTRPGs) you can do:

yt-dlp -x -f bestaudio

Also works great in a pinch for getting sounds and music for FoundryVTT.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

I'm pretty sure that it defaults to best quality.

goes looking at man page

   By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't  pass  any  options.   This  is  generally
   equivalent to using -f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best.  However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (--audio-multistreams),
   the  default  format changes to -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best.  Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp
   to stream to stdout (-o -), the default becomes -f best/bestvideo+bestaudio.

So I think that it should normally pull down the best audio unless you get into some situation where YouTube doesn't offer a format that simultaneously has the combination of highest audio quality with the highest video quality; if it has to do so to get the highest video quality then, it'll sacrifice audio quality.

EDIT: Hmm. I could have sworn that there was more text about prioritizing relative audio and video quality at one point in the man page, but I don't see anything there now. Maybe it can just always get the best audio quality, regardless of video quality, can pull 'em entirely separately.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Note that subtitles doesn't include automatic subtitles. For that you have to do --write-auto-subs in conjunction

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks.

EDIT: There isn't an --embed-auto-subs, but there is a --write-auto-subs.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 19 hours ago

Fixed thanks.

[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm a filthy Windows user that's too lazy to migrate my main PC to Fedora.

> Path\to\yt-dlp.exe -P <target directory> <URL>

Multiple URLs can be separated by spaces. Put any URLs with ampersands in quotes or remove the ampersand and following arguments.

You can find a list of all the arguments on the yt-dlp github page

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I like https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube gui. Only started using it yesterday, so far for indovidual videos. However it looks like it can also watch new videos being uploaded, thought not tried it myself.

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