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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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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/14609590

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] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

First question: You use

--download-sections "*00:00-10:00"

as an option to download the first 10 minutes. The asterisk means the numbers are treated as a timestamp instead of looking for a chapter with that title.

Second question I don't know.

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

Well that's a game changer, because I've been using ffmpeg directly to trim the files and it's very clunky by comparison.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

to my knowledge you can't get squares from yt-dlp. Strawberry Music Player has a feature to download and embed the cover from MusicBrainz, I usually use that (I have to correct the tags from yt-dlp most of the time anyways). I think Picard has that too, but I don't use that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

How to turn them square?

I don't think yt-dlp has built-in image cropping, so it's just going to download thumbnails in the resolutions provided by the server. (See the --list-thumbnails option.) To crop what you download, consider a tool like ImageMagick.