On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:22:42PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 19 germinal, an CCXXIII, Gilles Chanteperdrix a écrit : > > So, when you just need to run exec, it is stupid > > Exactly what I wrote: not your problem / premature optimization. > > > I do not follow you here. youtube-dl -J has a uselessly verbose > > output, much harder to parse than youtube-dl -g which gives you just > > one URL. But you still need to run youtube-dl. So, I do not see the > > upside. > > Scratch "uselessly" and you will get it right: -J gives you everything you > may need to download the video correctly. -g only gives you one piece of > information, which is sometimes sufficient (but not not enough that you do > not feel the need to call a second time for -e) but only for a few sites. > > So here is the upside of -J: it works. > > Second upside: it works with a single call. > > Third upside: since the information is completely self-contained, you can > pass it around easily. People here whine about "ffmpeg -f youtubedl", and > they have valid arguments. This: > > youtube-dl -J $url | ffmpeg -f youtubedl -i - > > is just as easy, and nobody will whine.
Well, in that case,
ffmpeg -i `youtube-dl -f bestvideo -g $url`
Is even simpler.
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Gilles.
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