Video Downloadhelper (VDH) is almost 100% reliable and dependable for downloading any video I encounter online. If my browser can play it, VDH can download it. I don't think I have found a video that it cannot download. Unfortunately, it is neither free nor open source, offering 1 download every 2 hours. There are ways to get around the limits, but the question here is how it's able to succeed where yt-dlp fails? I can never 100% rely on yt-dlp being able to download a video as I am many times met with 403 or other vague errors. Not VDH. One click and it downloads without a hassle. Every single time. Why can't yt-dlp do the same?

Seems like the advantage VDH has is that it runs in the browser, so it doesn't have to emulate anything. Would it help if yt-dlp used a headless browser behind the scenes? This could eliminate all of the tedium in trying to diagnose why a server is refusing requests, so no fiddling with multiple combinations of switches and arguments. Should I use referrer? Should I use cookies? Do I need a custom extractor? Should I do this or do that? No more questions, just one command line and it's done. Here's the URL. Get me the video.

I'd really like to find a FOSS replacement for the premium-based, heavily obfuscated, closed-source VDH. Would be nice if yt-dlp could achieve that.

I'm on Debian Linux and I have ffmpeg installed, but yt-dlp shows a bunch of audio-only formats, and video-only formats, with 360p being the only audio+video format it shows.

I read you need ffmpeg installed to download audio and video separately for higher resolutions, and have the two merged into one file automatically.

But I already have ffmpeg installed and I don't see any options for higher quality audio+video. Do I need to point yt-dlp to ffmpeg somehow, or use a specific command, in order to use the two software together?

I can't seem to get aliases working. I tried troubleshooting it using youtube but got flagged as a bot after too many attempts in a short amount of time.

What's a good website or other method to troubleshoot why aliases aren't working?

Hi People How Are You I really need pc app gui for bulk download videos from Facebook that have ability for file template videos and haves ability to paste URLs and thank you

So I am one user among many of a computer somewhere out there on the internet, and the hosts don't appreciate the resources being used for encoding. But they also say that if you do some, then you need to play nice with others (completely understandable).
Some googling has come up with nice -n 19 taskset -c 0,1 ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset silver -crf 22 -c:a copy output.mp4 as a suggestion to limit resource utilisation and lower the impact on other users, so to use that do I simply add --postprocessor-args "ffmpeg:nice -n 19 taskset -c 0,1 -preset slower" into my config file or CLI in order to use it?
Specifically this is just for muxing the audio and video back together, not changing the resolution, adding filters, etc.
Cheers.

My old stand-by for getting cookies in yt-dlp was ye olde --cookies-from-browser BROWSER. I know Falkon is built on top of Chromium, but passing --cookies-from-browser chromium or --cookies-from-browser chrome doesn't work. You folks have any ideas for working around that?

Hi all,

First I want to frontload that I'm not fluent with this sort of thing, but I know some basics. A day ago I started getting this error when trying to download Youtube videos (audio only) through Tartube.

Verbose warnings gives me the following output:
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

I am on the nightly build, updated ffmpeg, am using Deno, etc.

I have tried to use cookies via Firefox with the appropriate config command, which did help me download at least one video, but on the next attempt it told me that the cookies need to be exported now. I've read that this risks getting my YT account getting banned, so I'm wary about doing this.

What's getting me is that I didn't even need to muck about with this stuff a few days ago. I'm guessing YT pushed some evil change or another, so do I wait for an update?

Thanks in advance - both for your help and your patience, lol.

Downloading videos from RUSSIAN YOUTUBE (you get it right) is giving errors. I've never downloaded from there so is there a certain way to do it from there.

This is the command

• c:\ytdl\This>yt-dlp "https://RUSSIAN YOUTUBE/video/15894079081067"

[Odnoklassniki] Extracting URL: https: //RUSSIAN YOUTUBE/video/15894079081067
[Odnoklassniki] 15894079081067: Downloading desktop webpage
[Odnoklassniki] 15894079081067: Downloading mobile webpage
ERROR: [Odnoklassniki] 15894079081067: Unable to download webpage: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None)) (caused by TransportError("('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None))"))

• c:\ytdl\This>yt-dlp "bestvideo[height=1080]+bestaudio/best" "https://RUSSIAN YOUTUBE/video/15894079081067"

[generic] Extracting URL: bestvideo[height=1080]+bestaudio/best
ERROR: [generic] 'bestvideo[height=1080]+bestaudio/best' is not a valid URL
[Odnoklassniki] Extracting URL: https: //RUSSIAN YOUTUBE/video/15894079081067
[Odnoklassniki] 15894079081067: Downloading desktop webpage
[Odnoklassniki] 15894079081067: Downloading mobile webpage
ERROR: [Odnoklassniki] 15894079081067: Unable to download webpage: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None)) (caused by TransportError("('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None))"))

what is the easiest way to download videos from youtube ?

I'm not sure if there's a way to use this program while using the Tartube GUI for yt-dlp. If there is, I would really appreciate somebody assisting me and telling me how to make it run inside of it. thank you.

https://github.com/worm-emoji/nts-archiver

Title is self-explantory. No downloads are working whatsoever, neither from youtube nor from instagram. Tried using Seal as well, nothing worked.

Issues im running into are:

1. no cookies

2. impersonating or something

3. sign in for cookies.

the 3rd point, of signing in, YTDLnis is making me sign in through the inbuilt browser for Instagram and YouTube. Is that safe or should i refrain from signing in through YTDLnis' browser.

And any fixes?

VP9 and AV1: which one is best for pure visual quality?

I've checked videos with the --list-thumbnails flag and the default behavior when grabbing a thumbnail seems to be just grabbing the highest numbered one which is always a WebP file.

Is there a way to specify a thumbnail with either a name, number or something else? I don't want to grab the WebP file just the JPEG one. Even if I have to specify with something like "maxresdefault.jpg" that's at least doable.

I can't seem to find an easy way to do this. That is only using yt-dlp and I've already looked through the manual and the README on GitHub.

Do I have to use some scripting by downloading and then removing all the thumbnails and then muxing the maxresdefault.jpg as an attachment? Either a manual script or using something like the --exec and/or --use-postprocessor flags.

I'd rather just use yt-dlp but if that's what I have to do I suppose I'll do it. Just seems like it should be an easy thing to do to specify the thumbnail or is it a technical detail where YouTube just really makes it hard to implement.

Anyway, if there's anything I can do let me know if you already know of or use a scripting solution with flags or manually let me know. Any help is appreciated.

I am using the following command:

python -m yt_dlp --remote-components ejs:github -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-metadata --convert-thumbnails png --ppa "ThumbnailsConvertor+ffmpeg_o:-c:v png -vf crop=ih:ih" --embed-thumbnail -P "C:\Users\name\Downloads" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" '<link>"

I have downloaded 768 songs to be exact. and never had that problem, I did have the sign in warning and decided to slow it down. Now I don't know how to tackle this one

I have this tv decoder thingy that also supports flash drives, which could be used to play like media.

My workflow that I've come up with is that I download thru YTDLnis on my phone directly to a flash drive (because I have an OTG adapter), then plug it to the decoder and play the videos. Pretty simple and neat, but the embeded subtitles won't work.

Now I'm not sure if I need .srt to be in the same folder for it to work or I haven't looked hard enough at my remote, but I think having the subs in the actual frames of the video is the safest bet.

Tried looking on how to do it all in one command (or adding it as an extra argument on YTDLnis) but didn't find what I was looking for. No I will not buy a better tv box as it's in a place that I don't wanna disclose, but I can say that I'm talking about Prosto rt5430t2, if that helps.