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oleksis / youtube-dl-gui

A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.
https://oleksis.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/
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Add Settings Menu so users can set file paths for ffmpeg and ffprobe #161

Closed megashub closed 1 year ago

megashub commented 1 year ago

Please add a settings menu in the GUI so users can set file paths for ffmpeg and ffprobe.

I tried adding --ffmpeg-location in the "cmd_args" parameter within %AppData%\yt-dlg\settings.json, but that file gets over-written by the app each time it runs.

I also tried adding it as a commandline argument in the app's shortcut that gets created when you install it from Windows Store. The app still logged a warning on the video I was downloading that requires ffprobe to resolve, e.g. "Possible MPEG-TS in MP4 container or malformed AAC timestamps. Install ffmpeg to fix this automatically" ...which suggests it's not aware of the commandline argument.

megashub commented 1 year ago

Disregard. Found Extras tab in settings after posted this, and adding --ffmpeg-location there seems to have solved it for me.