So I use youtube-dl to grab stuff off youtube and if it's not in the format I want I use ffmpeg. Sometimes a video would be in such a high def format my poor old computer couldn't display it fast enough, so I'd use ffmpeg to cut it down to size, but it turns out the "youtube-dl -f" switch will get the resolution you want. Now I just have a script in /usr/local/bin called dl that goes "youtube-dl -f 18 $1" which forces 640 x 480.
Every once in awhile youtube manages to break something to make it impossible to download something with youtube-dl, so I have to update it with "youtube-dl -U" and wait 30 seconds.
So I use youtube-dl to grab stuff off youtube and if it's not in the format I want I use ffmpeg. Sometimes a video would be in such a high def format my poor old computer couldn't display it fast enough, so I'd use ffmpeg to cut it down to size, but it turns out the "youtube-dl -f" switch will get the resolution you want. Now I just have a script in /usr/local/bin called dl that goes "youtube-dl -f 18 $1" which forces 640 x 480.
Every once in awhile youtube manages to break something to make it impossible to download something with youtube-dl, so I have to update it with "youtube-dl -U" and wait 30 seconds.
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