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How do you get ffmpeg and other goodies you mentioned? Is there some software repo termux maintains? Is downloading software that way reasonably "safe"? I've us

• yesbabyyes 4y ago
  `pkg install ffmpeg` It's a thin wrapper around apt for whatever reason. Quite a lot of software packages are distributed by/for termux!
• HumptyDumptySat 4y ago
  There are number of different places to get this info. I use Termux with yt-dlp and decode to MP4 or extract audio only which requires ffmpeg and it works fine if a little slow. I decoded a 300 GB twitch stream that after downloading took about 20 mins to complete the decode (encode?) to mp4 on my Pixel6. But it works perfectly. e.g see https://gist.github.com/cyrillkuettel/d63785cf5f4c00106ae215188c377515 https://gist.github.com/cyrillkuettel/d63785cf5f4c00106ae215... for example.
  • brokenmachine 4y ago
    Pixel6 "only" has 256Gb storage, how did you download 300Gb?
    • clonhero 4y ago
      pipe yt-dlp into ffmpeg, set encoding setting such that it produces an output file small enough to fit onto storage or external storage
      • brokenmachine 4y ago
        Can't you just download the lower-res video using yt-dlp, or isn't that a thing on twitch?
• qbasic_forever 4y ago
  Termux has an open source repository of packages. It's similar to arch, debian, alpine, etc. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages https://github.com/termux/termux-packages Termux doesn't get special privileges unless you root your device. It can't go messing with your phone data unless you granted it permission to do so (but even then it doesn't have access to everything). It's no worse than any other Android app IMHO.