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jely2002 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Recode output automatically #299

Open ruebyi opened 2 years ago

ruebyi commented 2 years ago

Hi!

Thanks for your great work, but I'm missing one feature:

I would like to recode my downloaded files automatically to h264 with aac as audio.

Right now I'm using FFmpeg for this after I downloaded the file with your gui. It would be great to have this step right in your GUI.

Thank you for considering! ruebyi

Pgj1997 commented 2 years ago

I believe the term you're looking for is "re-encode", not "recode".

Anyway, I second this. I'm a YouTuber, and mainly download videos for the sole perpose of editing them. Right now, it only lets you download videos as a certain MP4 container. This container doesn't work with my video editor (MAGIX Vegas Movie Studio 14, if you're wondering), so I have to use a completely separate downloader just to get a file that's usable. Really, this program is only useful to me for its MP3 converter at the moment.

It's a shame too, because I used aTube Catcher beforehand, which honestly rivals YouTube-dl with how versatile and user friendly it is. But I stopped using it because it kept setting off my anti-virus programs.

However, if I use the command line version of YouTube-dl, this isn't an issue. I don't even have to use any of the flags. This is a problem because the whole point of OVD is to make YouTube-dl easier to use by giving it an interface, and part of why YouTube-dl is so popular (to my understanding at least) is because of how customizable its encoder settings are. Honestly, having these options available in the GUI should be a no-brainer.