Download youtube with yt-dlp

[axnspain]

I want to download YouTube videos and have them saved with a specific name.

I do this:

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCQV30im1A -o "PASL2 Avance 007.mp4"

But the video, apart from not respecting the name, turns out that it downloads the video and audio separately, it does not join them into a single file, giving me this error.



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And the truth is that I don't know why, since I have FFMPEG and YT-DLP in the same folder

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

>yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCQV30im1A -o "PASL2 Avance 007.mp4"
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCQV30im1A
[youtube] VLCQV30im1A: Downloading webpage
[youtube] VLCQV30im1A: Downloading tv player API JSON
[youtube] VLCQV30im1A: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] VLCQV30im1A: Downloading player 9c6dfc4a
[youtube] VLCQV30im1A: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] VLCQV30im1A: Downloading 1 format(s): 399+140
[download] Destination: PASL2 Avance 007.f399.mp4
[download] 100% of    3.32MiB in 00:00:00 at 4.44MiB/s
[download] Destination: PASL2 Avance 007.f140.m4a
[download] 100% of  317.61KiB in 00:00:00 at 1.73MiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "PASL2 Avance 007.mp4"
Deleting original file PASL2 Avance 007.f399.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file PASL2 Avance 007.f140.m4a (pass -k to keep)

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Works fine. Try updating both yt-dlp and ffmpeg to the latest version

[FroussardQc]

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8-484hD1NY -o "DESTINATION FINALE 6 Bande Annonce VF (2025).mp4"
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8-484hD1NY
[youtube] r8-484hD1NY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] r8-484hD1NY: Downloading tv client config
[youtube] r8-484hD1NY: Downloading player 9c6dfc4a
[youtube] r8-484hD1NY: Downloading tv player API JSON
[youtube] r8-484hD1NY: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] r8-484hD1NY: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] r8-484hD1NY: Downloading 1 format(s): 248+251
[download] Destination: DESTINATION FINALE 6 Bande Annonce VF (2025).mp4.f248.webm
[download] 100% of   14.60MiB in 00:00:00 at 24.45MiB/s
[download] Destination: DESTINATION FINALE 6 Bande Annonce VF (2025).mp4.f251.webm
[download] 100% of    2.19MiB in 00:00:00 at 21.58MiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "DESTINATION FINALE 6 Bande Annonce VF (2025).mp4.webm"
Deleting original file DESTINATION FINALE 6 Bande Annonce VF (2025).mp4.f248.webm (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file DESTINATION FINALE 6 Bande Annonce VF (2025).mp4.f251.webm (pass -k to keep)

Works fine for me too.

[axnspain]

Indeed, the fault was that FFMPEG was not up to date.
The current one weighs 140Mb and the one I had weighed 40Mb, but since it always worked, I didn't update it.

Now yes, sorry and thanks for the help.

[artur_non_coder]

Does yt-dlp download 1140p videos?

[2nHxWW6GkN1l916N3ayz8HQoi]

yt-dlp can download any youtube video at max quality. Here's a 4k video example

yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYjApop7Mk"

[artur_non_coder]

yt-dlp can download any youtube video at max quality. Here's a 4k video example

yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYjApop7Mk"

Thanks!

[JannAce]

To fix your download issue, adjust your command to merge audio and video while keeping your desired filename:

yt-dlp -f bestvideo+bestaudio --merge-output-format mp4 -o "PASL2 Avance 007.mp4" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLCQV30im1A

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[Obo]

Depends on your definition of "best way". IMO yes. If you don't like the command line, then probably no.