Youtube videos - annoying partial screen

[aelfheah]

I enjoy streaming Youtube vids but occasionally want to download one. But sometimes you get this crap around the edges-

What is it and is it possible to get rid and download the 'proper' video?

[sneaker]

You mean how the actual video is only 1/4 of the picture? This usually done when uploading content owned by someone else to thwart Youtube's piracy detection. Only way around it is to found a different version of the same video, e.g. uploaded by the actual copyright holder. If you can't find that you need to crop away the useless parts of the image in a software of your choice, e.g. AviSynth, VidCoder, ...
Or find a player that can do it on the fly, maybe even read cropping metadata from e.g. the mkv container which you could add using mkvtoolnix (MPC-BE can).

[aelfheah]

Thanks, wasn't sure what it was or why?

[aazerty]

hi aelfheah ,

An example , on how to do . You have to find the position of the window , and its dimensions . Many tries to do !

"...\vlc.exe" -v -I rc "Group_der_diam_court.mp4" --sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264,vb=800,fps=25,acodec=mp3,scale=1.0,vfilter=croppadd{cropleft=0,croptop=430,cropright=0,cropbottom=430}}:duplicate{dst=std{mux=mp4,access=file,dst="E:\YTBE\Dernier_Diamant\Dernier_Diamant_st-It.mp4"}}

Cheers .

[aelfheah]

hi aelfheah ,

An example , on how to do . You have to find the position of the window , and its dimensions . Many tries to do !

"...\vlc.exe" -v -I rc "Group_der_diam_court.mp4" --sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264,vb=800,fps=25,acodec=mp3,scale=1.0,vfilter=croppadd{cropleft=0,croptop=430,cropright=0,cropbottom=430}}:duplicate{dst=std{mux=mp4,access=file,dst="E:\YTBE\Dernier_Diamant\Dernier_Diamant_st-It.mp4"}}

Cheers .

Thanks, sounds complex!

[aazerty]

hi ,

Give us the link to the video , for try .

Cheers .

[aelfheah]

Thanks, here it is from Youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92RdlkmKQHs&t=292s

[aazerty]

Hi ,

Below my try .

!!! Create a folder any one . exemple : 'C:\temp' !!!
!!! "The_Vale_Of_Evesham.mp4" and "Vale.bat" MUST be in 'C:\temp' !!!
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1) Download the video . After rename it as "The_Vale_Of_Evesham.mp4"
2) Copy the batch below , paste it in a text editor

@echo on
"c:\program files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe" -v -I rc "The_Vale_Of_Evesham.mp4" --sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264,vb=800,fps=30,acodec=mp3,scale=1.0,vfilter=croppadd{cropleft=13,croptop=339,cropright=589,cropbottom=7}}:duplicate{dst=std{mux=mp4,access=file,dst="The_Vale_Of_Evesham_vignette.mp4"}}
pause
:fin

3) Verify your location for 'vlc.exe' ( do modification if need ? ) .
4) save it as "Vale.bat"
5) launch the batch and wait for getting "The_Vale_Of_Evesham_vignette.mp4" ( 199,791 ko ) .

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Given a draw on how to set parameters : cropleft=13,croptop=339,cropright=589,cropbottom=7
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Cheers .

[aazerty]

Hi ,

ADDENDUM :

== ==== commands line
...>"...\youtube-dl.exe" -F "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92RdlkmKQHs&t=292s"
====== result on the screen
[youtube] 92RdlkmKQHs: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 92RdlkmKQHs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 92RdlkmKQHs: Extracting video information
[youtube] 92RdlkmKQHs: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] 92RdlkmKQHs: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Available formats for 92RdlkmKQHs:
---
format code extension resolution note
---
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 135k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz)
160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 108k , avc1.4d400b, 30fps, video only
133 mp4 426x238 DASH video 242k , avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only
134 mp4 640x358 DASH video 613k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only
135 mp4 854x478 DASH video 1155k , avc1.4d4014, 30fps, video only
136 mp4 1280x716 DASH video 2209k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only
17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k
36 3gp 320x180 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2
18 mp4 640x358 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k
43 webm 640x360 medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k
22 mp4 1280x716 hd720 , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (best)
======
======
You can read the best video is :
format code extension
22 mp4 1280x716
======
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You can create a commands line :
...>"...\youtube-dl.exe" -f best "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92RdlkmKQHs&t=292s" -o "The_Vale_Of_Evesham.mp4"
or
...>"...\youtube-dl.exe" -f 22 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92RdlkmKQHs&t=292s" -o "The_Vale_Of_Evesham.mp4"
======

NOTE : The parameters ( cropleft=13,croptop=339,cropright=589,cropbottom=7 ) are for the video in 1280x716 .

Cheers .