i would aak how you could even be proud about this, but it's clear that this is just cynically viewed as busy work anyway
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![a marked-up infographic of two yt-dlp commands, with colored boxes annotating notable parts of each command
SINGLE VIDEO:
yt-dlp -f "bv+(251/mergeall[format_id~=251-])" --audio-multistreams --sub-langs all,-live_chat --sub-format "ass/srt" --embed-subs --ppa "EmbedSubtitle:-disposition:s 0 -default_mode infer_no_subs"
--ppa "Metadata:-disposition:s +0" --ppa "EmbedThumbnail:-disposition:s +0" --embed-metadata --write-thumbnail --remux-video mkv --windows-filenames -o "PATH\%(title)s.%(ext)s" "URL OF VIDEO"
selects the best video track and downloads every audio track with the opus codec (the best quality tracks), allows multiple audio tracks to be downloaded in the first place, downloads every available subtitle track, except for live chat transcripts and
auto-generated captions. only downloads .ass and .srt files because jellyfin doesn’t support .vtt, then embeds the downloaded subtitles into the final file, a fix i found on github to prevent the first language listed alphabetically in the subtitles being assigned the “default” flag, embeds information such as the title and description into the video file, writes the thumbnail as a seperate file (it doesn’t properly embed into the mkv) and chooses mkv as the container for the final video, writes files using windows-compatible filenames, while utilizing
unicode to replace colons and other problematic punctuation,
sets an output directory, and downloads videos with just their titles.
PLAYLIST:
the command is almost identical, with the addition of a "--ignore-errors" (which means that yt-dlp "won’t stop downloading when coming across unavailable videos") flag after specifying the audio tracks, and a different path, which, "creates a directory for each playlist, and predixes a number according to a video’s position
in the playlist (it also keeps unavailable videos in mind, so it’ll reflect it exactly as it is on youtube)"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bfxp2gslujxrd4gpxxnyt52v/bafkreighmr6ptrhod6lum5jyvnweu37cadgekyl4vjz2a6jc7lurczw5yu)
