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Unless you need to convert the audio format, I don't think you need ffmpeg at all - youtube-dl can just download the audio stream and save it to a file. Just li
by icebraining 7y ago
Unless you need to convert the audio format, I don't think you need ffmpeg at all - youtube-dl can just download the audio stream and save it to a file. Just list the available formats from a video and choose an audio-only format.
- thwythwy 7y agowill try thank you
- Nullabillity 7y agoAlso, IIRC youtube-dl will automatically re-encode it using ffmpeg if you pick an unavailable format!
- timendum 7y agoInsome cases youtube-dl downloads the content via ffmpeg, see [1] [1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/c3bcd206eb031de30179c88ac7acd806a477ceae/youtube_dl/downloader/__init__.py https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/c3bcd206eb031de3...