I’m looking to download a number of educational youtube videos for future reference. Looking for a reliable way to download videos. OS is Ubuntu. FF extensions and docker containers all good. I don’t really want to install an executable on bare metal unless it is a flatpak.

My goal is for the downloaded videos to be accessed locally via jellyfin. Jellyfin is already sorted.

Thanks in advance for your recommendations!

  • Ace! _SL/SEnglish
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    5 months ago

    True, that guy seems like a jerk

    Also, if you only want the highest quality using the command line version is easy as running

    yt-dlp “link”

    for example:

    yt-dlp “https://m.youtube.com/watchv=dQw4w9WgXcQ”

    Although it needs ffmpeg too for certain websites that have seperate audio and video streams. Maybe that’s why your previous experiences have been wonky