I’m looking to download a number of educational youtube videos for future reference. Looking for a reliable way to download videos. OS is Ubuntu. FF extensions and docker containers all good. I don’t really want to install an executable on bare metal unless it is a flatpak.
My goal is for the downloaded videos to be accessed locally via jellyfin. Jellyfin is already sorted.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
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Huh… That’s really not nice.
True, that guy seems like a jerk
Also, if you only want the highest quality using the command line version is easy as running
yt-dlp “link”
for example:
yt-dlp “https://m.youtube.com/watchv=dQw4w9WgXcQ”
Although it needs ffmpeg too for certain websites that have seperate audio and video streams. Maybe that’s why your previous experiences have been wonky
If you want to use a computer you’re going to need to learn how to use it.
It’s not reasonable to expect maintainers of a very nice Python CLI tool to also maintain a GUI that works perfectly with it. Just look at the manpage if you need to find an option.