video-dl (a yt-dlp GUI)

The purpose of this script is to simplify the usage of yt-dlp.

Requirements

Windows

All the requirements are embedded within the installer.

Linux

• You need to install both ffmpeg and ffprobe manually. Most Linux distributions have these in their package manager.
• In order to use QSV, you must have the intel-mediasdk (apt) or intel-media-sdk (pacman) package installed.

OSX

• For macOS users, Homebrew has the ffmpeg package which includes ffprobe. If python 3 was installed with Homebrew, you will also need the python-tk package.

Downloads

The installer for Windows is available in the releases section. The program isn't signed yet, so your browser will probably warn you when downloading it.

Usage

Simply run the binary. The program isn't signed yet, so on Windows and MacOS you'll have a window popping up telling you the program isn't safe. Each option should be self explanatory. If it isn't, don't hesitate to create an issue so that I can fix that.

Features

• Works with every website yt-dlp supports.
• Allows you to choose the max framerate and resolutions in which you want the videos in the selected resolution. It will try to find it but will get a lower value if this resolution/framerate isn't available.
• Allows you to only download the audio of a video.
• Allows you to choose among the most common audio codecs if you only want the audio.
• Let you choose the start and end time of the video you want to download. It only downloads the part you selected but the download is slower since it's handled by ffmpeg and not av2conv.
• Allows you to get cookies from your browser in order to access restricted videos on Youtube only accessible if you log in.
• Saves videos with the name of the video followed by the author's name.
• Remuxes videos if the downloaded files' codec is the same than the targeted video codec (faster than recode and lossless) in order to ensure compatibility with every NLE software.
• Recodes the video in the targeted codec if it is encoded with something else.
• Detects if an encoder capable of h264/h265/ProRes encoding is visible by the system and if there is, use it to encode the video rather than the CPU which is slower.
• Can download subtitles.

Usage

Launch Video-dl, enter a valid URL of a supported website, select the options you want then click "Download".

Compile from sources

You need to install:

• Python >= 3.8
• The requirements listed in requirements.txt
• ffmpeg
• ffprobe

Add this plugin in your venv so that cookie's extraction works with Chromium-based browser.

Windows

Use pyinstaller and the file Windows-video-dl.spec pyinstaller Windows-video-dl.spec

MACOS

Use py2app and the file MACOS-video-dl.py python MACOS-video-dl.py py2app

Linux

Use pyinstaller and the file Linux-video-dl.spec pyinstaller Linux-video-dl.spec

Software used

• yt-dlp
• ffmpeg
• flet