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Some questions about yt-dlp (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can I have some help regarding using yt-dlp.

How to select a specific duration of video to be downloaded like from 00 to 600 seconds in video of 8 hours.
When downloading songs from youtube with metadata and thumbnail I get thumbnails in rectangular shape instead of square. How to turn them square?

Asking it here cause, Discussion on repository is closed and it is FOSS software.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You can use the --download-sections parameter to specify a time range. --download-sections "*0-600" would download the first 600 seconds to the nearest keyframe. To make it exact, you would have to re-encode the video after downloading it.

For making the thumbnail square, you will probably have to write a script to extract it, crop it, and re-insert it.