MediaDownloader A simple, lightweight 🍃 GUI wrapper for yt-dlp. Download

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❔ What is it?

A simple and lightweight GUI wrapper for yt-dlp and FFmpeg.

It provides a simple abstraction for basic yt-dlp and FFmpeg features while giving full access to each API via custom argument injections, all nicely packaged in a self-contained, cross-platform binary.

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💽 How do I get it?

By grabbing a binary from the 👉 downloads page.

💿 How do I run it?

Windows

Simply run MediaDownloader.exe. It will automatically install all dependencies into the MediaDownloader/bin directory.

Debian/Ubuntu

Simply run MediaDownloader_linux. It will automatically install all dependencies into the MediaDownloader/bin directory.

You may need to run the following command:

sudo chmod +x MediaDownloader_linux

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🔨 How do I build it?

By following these steps:

• Follow the Tauri prerequisites tutorial:

  • https://tauri.app/start/prerequisites

• Download & extract the MediaDownloader source code

• Navigate into the source code and run following commands:

  npm install
  

  npm run tauri-build
  

  OR (for development):

  npm run tauri-dev
  

The built binary can be found in src/app/target/release.

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📖 FAQ

How do I use the custom arguments option?

• Every argument should be separated by a newline (\n)
  Examples:

  -x
  --audio-format
  mp3
  

  -b:v
  10M
  -b:a
  320K
  

How do I specify trim values?

• Trim values should be in the format of a timestamp
  Examples:
  • 0:00 and 0:10
  • 1:00 and 1:30
  • 10 and 15
  • 52:32 and 1:20:21
• You can use the << and >> options to tell the trimmer to trim from the very start or end

How do I specify bitrate values?

• Bitrate values should be a number, followed by a byte abbreviation
  Examples:
  • 1G (for gigabits)
  • 10M (for megabits)
  • 320k (for kilobits)

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❗ Help me

If you have an issue or question:

• You can contact me on Discord (my username is o7q)
• You can create an issue on the issues page.

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