made it so i just click file and paste YouTube url

Linux is amazing

#! /usr/bin/bash
echo "Enter a url"
read a

yt-dlp -x $a
  • db2@lemmy.world
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Definitely not the same lol

    Mine uses ffmpeg to change the resolution, it doesn’t so much care about file sizes.

    It could be a one-liner if you only ever feed it a single file to manipulate…

    • 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      I might add one for scaling. I just don’t use it as frequently as trying to meet a file size limit. The scaling is also much easier to remember

      ffmpeg -i  in.mp4 -vf "scale=600:-1" -an out.mp4

      It does get complicated though, when scaling many videos and images, I’ve used something like the following in the past

      find .  -exec ffmpeg -i {} -vf "scale=1920:1080:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1920:1080:-1:-1:color=black" {}.mp4 \;

      Those were the only two that showed up when I typed history | grep scale.

      after commenting, I also added a new video file resizer.

      It works significantly better than the one I previously posted. It’s also copied from stackoverflow.

      bitrate="$(awk "BEGIN {print int($2 * 1024 * 1024 * 8 / $(ffprobe \
    -v error \
    -show_entries format=duration \
    -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 \
    "$1" \
) / 1000)}")k"
ffmpeg \
    -y \
    -i "$1" \
    -c:v libx264 \
    -preset medium \
    -b:v $bitrate \
    -pass 1 \
    -an \
    -f mp4 \
    /dev/null \
&& \
ffmpeg \
    -i "$1" \
    -c:v libx264 \
    -preset medium \
    -b:v $bitrate \
    -pass 2 \
    -an \
    "${1%.*}-$2mB.mp4"