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madiele / vod2pod-rss

Vod2Pod-RSS converts a YouTube or Twitch channel into a podcast with ease. It creates a podcast RSS that can be listened to directly inside any podcast client. VODs are transcoded to MP3 on the fly and no server storage is needed!
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[Feature] Add an option/key to choose video quality to download #200

Closed shad0wrunner closed 3 months ago

shad0wrunner commented 3 months ago

As we don't need to download the best quality - it would be great to have an option to select a video quality that would be downloaded in order to transcode it to audio. E.g. 144, 240, 360.

This would greatly increase speed of download and allow for smoother transcoding. especially in situations where there is any kind of download limit on owned servers' side (or restrictions on YouTube download speed)

madiele commented 3 months ago

Hi, vod2pod is already setup so it will only fetch the audio track and transcode that to mp3, so it's already optimized, no need for a setting to choose video quality, since there is no video to be trancoded...

you can test this by installing yt-dlp on you linux machine and running

yt-dlp -f bestaudio --get-url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGWRhyoUF3Y"

which is the command vod2pod runs to fetch the stream URI, give the output to vlc and you will see that it's just plain audio with no video

Unfortunately there is nothing to be done to improve the download speed on vod2pod side, the only thing you can try is to move to the beta image as it always has the most recent version of yt-dlp and se if stuff improves

shad0wrunner commented 3 months ago

Thanks for the clarification and sorry I was mistaken about how vdo2pod works.

madiele commented 3 months ago

no problem, I could improve the documentation to dispel any doubts like this