android has newpipes for downloading youtube

windows youtube-DL script:

https://github.com/freeload101/SCRIPTS/blob/master/Windows_Batch/Youtube-dl-ffmpeg-aria2c-updater-downloader.bat

ffmpeg notes:

I started out by wanting to download facebook live streams and ended up missing it all together

Reference (no longer live by the time I got online... ): https://www.facebook.com/FormulaDRIFT/videos/452016008942956/

live video looks like something about mpd files with facebook also looks like you need ffmpeg complied with --enable-libxml2

this is where I found a WONDERFUL script https://github.com/jb-alvarado/media-autobuild_suite

also located other untested projects (pre compiled binaries ;/ ) https://www.videohelp.com/software/Hybrid

windows binary of youtube-dl for facebook/twitch.tv and youtube etc ..

https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

oneliner to download/run media-autobuild_suite to "%userprofile%media-autobuild_suite-masterbuildffmpeg-gitbuild-static-64bit"

powershell -Exec Bypass "IEX (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://github.com/jb-alvarado/media-autobuild_suite/archive/master.zip',"%userprofile%desktopmaster.zip"); Expand-Archive -LiteralPath "%userprofile%desktopmaster.zip" -DestinationPath "%userprofile%desktop" ;Start-Process "%userprofile%desktopmedia-autobuild_suite-mastermedia-autobuild_suite.bat" "

this took over 8hrs to compile on a i7 I disabled items that had warnings and comments about issues and useless of codes that have issues etc

missing libopenh264.dll when I launched ffmpeg_g.exe

the dll was not built but I'm not sure it's something I messed up I'm sure

only post I saw online about it was that it's useless and -full should never be used flaming etc

start media-autobuild_suite-mastermsys64mingw64.exe and run the following

Reference : https://bluexmas.tistory.com/category/OS not sure what the flags were for but copied the DLL into the folder and it appears to run

git clone https://github.com/cisco/openh264.git

cd openh264

export "CFLAGS=-fno-stack-protector"

export "LDFLAGS=-lssp"

make

also had to apply this fix for AR etc in platform-mingw_nt.mk folder

find / -iname "platform-mingw_nt.mk" -exec sed 's/x86_64-w64-mingw32-//g' -i.bak '{}' ;

youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio "link to youtube video"

If that gives you an error, try the following instead:

youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio' --merge-output-format mp4 "link to youtube video"

Here you download the best video and audio separately and then merge into a, in this case mp4 file. You can change the output format on the merged video as well.