Metadata

[Axel Slingerland]

Ok, don't laugh... Newbie question alert!

Every now and then a video I download does not display the duration in Windows Explorer (I have Win7 Home, by the way) when I download with yt-dlp using this command:

yt-dlp.exe --output %%(title)s.%%(ext)s http://path-to-video

I've tried adding --embed-metadata to the command but it doesn't help. It's as if no metadata is available to download. But that's the thing, I know there is. If I download the video with TVDownloader and I check the box for 'Write Metadata', the downloaded video displays the duration in Windows Explorer just fine. So that shows that there is in fact metadata present.

So my question is, what is the command to instruct yt-dlp to 'Write Metadata'?

[codehound]

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#post-processing-options

yt-dlp --embed-metadata "video-url" -o output.mp4

[Axel Slingerland]

More or less, that's the same thing as what I wrote before. It's just using -o with a specific filename instead of --output with %%(title)s.%%(ext)s, which sets the downloaded video's filename based on the video's filename on the server you're downloading from. In any case, it works the same way. Or rather, it doesn't work the same way.

So while I don't know why it doesn't work (and that was the point, I wanted to learn why) TVDownloader does it right, it's just a bit slower. But I can make it use yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl, so perhaps that might speed it up.

However, I wonder if there might be some other reason why it does that. So I will keep looking for a solution, just because...

Thanks anyway!