FFMPEG Automation

[amsgh]

Can anyone help me create a template or some sort of field that accepts text? I was watching the below video and was wondering if i could do something like that. Im ripping alot of videos and need to copy paste the .m3u8 web address and give it a .mp4 file name. Then go into Command Prompt and paste the entire string for each video. I hate having to shift click the name field and copying and pasting into multiple windows, so im looking for a more automated solution or something that lets me do multiple instances quickly/smoothly.

It doesnt have to be done in an external program either btw if someone knows a format that can be used in notepad++ where i can just click in the field and paste that works too.

ffmpeg -loglevel warning -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i "**https://website.com/video.m3u8**" -c copy j:/RIPS/"**drone video.mp4**"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPXquLDLVc

[amsgh]

did some more research and used youtube-dl instead. i have it pointing to a text file with all of my m3u8 links. does anyone know how to use -o in youtube-dl to point to a text file for the output filenames?

so url.txt has all of the http://.m3u8 links and files.txt has all of the *.mp4 filenames.

Right now im using autonumber start at 1 but that means i have to manually rename all of the files...

[codehound]

Youtube-dl is dead in the water since June and has all sorts of complications that have not been addressed. Use yt-dlp instead.

You dont need a txt file for output filenames, just use:

-o "%(title)s.%(format_id)s.%(ext)s"

[amsgh]

Youtube-dl is dead in the water since June and has all sorts of complications that have not been addressed. Use yt-dlp instead.

You dont need a txt file for output filenames, just use:

-o "%(title)s.%(format_id)s.%(ext)s"

The problem with that output template is that when the source file name is the same it errors out. Hence why I asked my original question.