An invaluable tool to download video files from a lot of portals (not only youtube)...
It requires:
- youtube-dl (who would have thought that?!?)
- ffmpeg (https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/)
Why ffmepg? To fix errors in the downloaded file (it's NOT about transcoding the video
into different formats or extracting the audio...). I have seen this a few times and even
VLC wasn't able to play the downloaded file correctly. With ffmepg this hasn't been
a problem in months...
If AYTS does not find any of these two utilities it will question you if you want to
open their website to download them. You are responsible to extract the ffmpeg
zip and put it's folder + youtube.dl in the correct folders (which you have to
configure at the beginning of the script!
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$exe = "D:\Tools\@Command Line Tools\youtube_dl\youtube-dl.exe";
$ffmpeg = "D:\Tools\@Command Line Tools\FFmpeg\bin";
$dstFolder = "D:\Users\Highend\Downloads";
It then downloads the necessary metadata and will show a window where
you can select, what exactly you want to download.
The entry with the suffix "(best)" is preselected by default! Choose only ONE checkbox here!
Hit the OK button, and the script will download the file to the
destination folder given in the "$dstFolder" variable at the beginning
of the script...
Current version: Old version(s):