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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (7 children)

More people need to learn about yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Can't talk about the seedy anime websites, but youtube-mp3 conversion is so easily done yourself without havaing to visit any virus-pushing sites once you figure out how.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's a hell of a lot more convenient to go to a shady site with an adblocker installed than install/update Python and a couple command line packages before manually performing conversion yourself.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can yt-dlg right off the microsoft store on windows which is just a straight up GUI for yt-dlp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

rarely use the cli anymore. the gui works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"A couple command line packages", well, since both yt-dlp and ffmpeg are command line tools and two technically qualifies as "a couple", this is technically correct, but making it seem like much more of a big deal than it is at the same time.

Also, you do not have to install Python for any of this. Never mind having Python installed is a good idea anyway.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

two doesnt 'qualify' as a couple. two IS couple. a couple is two

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yt-dlp has the -x option to extract the audio, and as far as I can tell it doesn't reencode which is fast. Ripping music from youtube is a single command. yt-dlp -x url

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True, but it needs ffmpeg in its path to do that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This has the same vibes as one of those commercials that tries to sell a convoluted single use kitchen tool by showing a bunch of people too disingenuously incompetent to handle the established standard, actually simple, way of doing it.

https://youtu.be/qM4zMofsI7w?

This sort of thing. Make the simple problem seem impossible to solve, so the useless product feels more necessary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

on linux at least, its one command to install, one command to run. worth the 'effort'

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I usually use the trick to download YouTube videos using vlc media player, that gives mp4s, which one can get an mp3 from if for some reason I want an mp3 and not mp4 using audacity or something

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From my time at Tumblr and DeviantArt I am really familiar with stuff like ffmpeg, but I don't think it is the type you are referring too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Now I'm wondering what else ffmpeg could mean... Maybe female-female-male threesome with pegging?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Now there's a rabbit hole!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

gonna guess Final Fantasy Male Impregnation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We tell not the muggles of our secret porn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same way I, a furry, felt after watching a video on Knot Theory

Although I have no idea of a different kind of "ffmpeg"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently needed a QR code generated, and for the life of me, I couldn’t find a website that wouldn’t either require me to sign up, or generate the QR code to their link shortener service.

Finally resorted to logging into my headless Linux server and installing some QR code package.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The seedy anime sites are noticeably nicer than any legit site I've tried. Crunchyroll is a worse website than most pirate sites(assuming noting has improved since years ago). You just need an adblocker for the nuke my PC button next to the video.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

you can also use VLC to find the video source itself and just download it there.