MPD L3 download

[intheory628]

So lately I have been looking at different ways to get web-dl. When looking around I found the widevine-guesser. I like it but it seems like a lot of setup on the system. Instead I have been just using ytdlp with cookies being passed to it then using ffmpeg for x265 compression. All being done within a bat file that I can load a list of links and have it run over night. Is the way I am doing it over night not the proper way?

[[ss]vegeta]

What you are saying is confusing.

Widevine gusser is for getting keys. It's definitely not "a lot of setup on the system" since it's a "simple" extension for your browser.
If you are using only ytdlp and ffmpeg to get anything, it means the content is not encrypted.

You can't use ytdlp/ffmpeg INSTEAD of gusser, lol.

Anyway, whatever you are doing, if it's working, keep doing it.

[intheory628]

Because you can pass cookies to ytdlp you can get the file not encrypted on the system.

%SN is given name
%1 is link loaded from text file
%2 is name of file loaded from text file

yt-dlp --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-x 16 -s 16 -k 3M" --cookies "%USERPROFILE%\Downloads\paramount\paramountplus.com_cookies.txt" -o "%USERPROFILE%\downloads\temp\%SN% %2.mp4" -f ("bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720]") %1
title "%SN% %2"

ffmpeg -i "%USERPROFILE%\downloads\temp\%SN% %2.mp4" -preset slow -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -c:v libx265 -x265-params profile=main10 -c:a copy -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -c:s copy "%USERPROFILE%\downloads\temp\transfer\%SN% %2.mkv"

So what this does is just uses a batch file with a text file already loaded with links and names so it can download, compress and then I have more that runs filebot and transfer to the correct folders.

So not really any needed software other than YTDLP, FFMPEG and if a person chooses Filebot. All of this runs within CMD and batch files take care of everything.

What I was wondering is Widevine Guesser seems like you would have to grab a key file for every file you download. Instead this is just a list of a series that it can grab everything at once and run over night.

Is there anything that would make the web-dl a better copy from guesser vs ytdlp/ffmpeg?

I like the ability to use batch so I don't have to monitor.

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